Category Archives: Books

Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading →

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Funambulist paper 46 – Grégoire Chamayou’s Manhunts: From Territory to Space? – by Stuart Elden

Posted on January 18, 2014 by stuartelden

A short article by me, entitled ‘Grégoire Chamayou’s Manhunts: From Territory to Space?’ has been posted as the 46th Funambulist paper (open access). In it I discuss Chamayou’s book Manhunts in relation to my own work on territory. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 17, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the day in the State Library of Victoria, re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and comparing them carefully to Surveiller et punir. This took me much longer than anticipated. I knew this text well – I’ve taught it quite a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – seventh update

Posted on January 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Recent work has been across a number of chapters. First, further work on Chapter Three entitled ‘Pervert, Hysteric, Child’. As well as the pieces I wrote on Psychiatric Power and The Abnormals, in my files I also had a draft … Continue reading →

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Verso’s Radical Thinkers series 8 out – first excerpt at critical-theory.com

Posted on January 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Series 8 of Verso’s Radical Thinkers is now out. I’ve just received my copy of Althusser’s The Spectre of Hegel. To celebrate, Critical-Theory will be releasing 8 free excerpts from Verso over the next few weeks from recently released series. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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Winter 2014 Chicago Shorts – University of Chicago Press books

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Full details here – University of Chicago Press’s interesting project of making short books available electronically and, crucially, at very cheap prices (compare Palgrave Pivot…) Among the Winter Shorts, you’ll find: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: A Brief Introduction by Bruce Caldwell … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – planned book now has a dedicated page

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve consolidated all the links to audio recordings and other pieces on a dedicated page for the Shakespearean Territories planned book project. This project has slipped a bit recently, as I’ve been concentrating on the Foucault’s Last Decade book, but I … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Bookstores – some stunning photographs

Posted on January 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A series of pictures of beautiful bookstores across the world (thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link).

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Books received – From Above, Intolérable, The Politics of Ourselves…

Posted on January 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Philippe Artières (ed.), Intolérable: Groupe d’information sur les prisons; Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead and Alison Williams (eds.), From Above: War, Violence and Verticality; Amy Allen, The Politics of Ourselves; the Theory, Culture & Society annual review; and the latest Society and Space.

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