Category Archives: Books

Foucault’s Last Decade – sixth update

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Much of the recent work on this project has been continuing work on Chapter Three, especially the discussions of perverts, women and children. I keep reworking sections and adding more and more detail, well aware some of this will need … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – now has a page with links

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve created a page on this blog under Future Projects for the Foucault’s Last Decade book. This has the proposal, links to the updates I’ve posted here about the book’s progress, and links to a couple of audio recordings of papers. … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist on Stoler, Foucault and Race

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The Funambulist has an interesting post on ‘The Desired Colonized Body: Foucault and Race by Ann Laura Stoler‘. I clearly remember reading Stoler’s text Race and the Education of Desire while doing my PhD, and finding its discussion of Foucault’s as-then-unpublished lecture course … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes … Continue reading →

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40 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in 2013

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

critical-theory.com has produced a detailed list of forty books that came out in 2013. Lots of great books in here. I’m pleased that my own The Birth of Territory has made the cut. [update: now has fifty books including reader additions … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some initial thoughts on the first half

Posted on December 23, 2013 by stuartelden

I received Foucault’s La société punitive last week, and it was the only academic book I took with me on my Christmas trip to Ghana. As with these lecture courses generally I know I will read them several times, so … Continue reading →

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Olivia Harrison on Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace

Posted on December 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Long review of a book containing Derrida’s last US lecture and a series of responses – Elizabeth Weber (ed.) Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace – in the LA Review of Books. Thanks to Ayşe Mermutlu for the link.

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Jeremy Crampton on my ‘the political is always technical’ comment

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has responded in a very interesting way to my comment that ‘the political is always technical’. I made that comment in my remarks to the ArcticNet conference last week – a summary and the audio recording are here. … Continue reading →

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Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect – out next year

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My ex-Durham colleague and friend Ben Anderson’s book Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is coming out next year. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to … Continue reading →

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