Category Archives: Felix Guattari

Did Benveniste read Derrida’s Of Grammatology?

Posted on October 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida was certainly a careful reader of Émile Benveniste. He wrote a critique of Benveniste in “Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique” which appeared in 1971, in a special issue of Langages, “Épistémologie de la linguistique” edited … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Felix Guattari, Ferdinand de Saussure, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julia Kristeva, Marcel Mauss, Martin Heidegger, Roland Barthes, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari – Bloomsbury, December 2024 This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core … Continue reading →

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Books received – Milner, Lévi-Strauss, Lefebvre, Guattari, Saussure, Walters & Tazzioli

Posted on June 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books for the Indo-European thought project, together with the copy of Musset Henri Lefebvre gave to Georges Bataille (more here) and William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality, in which I have a chapter on Foucault and … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Felix Guattari, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

Indo-European thought project update 9: Dumézil’s courses; Benveniste’s teaching records; Barthes, Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida; and a forthcoming article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on January 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Over the last month I have made some progress on a few different aspects of this project.  The main task in Paris was continuing working through the boxes of Georges Dumézil’s courses, held at the Collège de France archives. I’ve now … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Felix Guattari, Georges Dumézil, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, The Archaeology of Foucault | 2 Comments

The Deleuze Seminars – Data Rescue

Posted on November 18, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned the Deleuze Seminars project before – an online resource gathering recordings, transcriptions and translations of his teaching work. This kind of work is very valuable, but relies on source material. I know from my work on Foucault that … Continue reading →

Posted in Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

CFP: From Sense to Machinic Becoming – the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference Royal Holloway, University of London 8-10 July 2019

Posted on October 24, 2018 by stuartelden

CFP: From Sense to Machinic Becoming – the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference Royal Holloway, University of London 8-10 July 2019 The year of the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari conference marks the 50th anniversary of three crucial … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Early Foucault update 17: Canguilhem, Beinecke library and back to Foucault

Posted on April 19, 2018 by stuartelden

I wrote the last update on this book over two months ago, just as I was finishing up an extended research visit to Paris. Since then I’ve mainly been focusing on the Canguilhem manuscript, which is inching toward a near … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Felix Guattari, Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Ludwig Binswanger, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, The Early Foucault, Travel, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 5 Comments

Arun Saldanha, Space after Deleuze – now out with Bloomsbury

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Arun Saldanha, Space after Deleuze – now out with Bloomsbury, but unfortunately only in a grotesquely priced hardback. Deleuze’s fondness for geography has long been recognised as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the … Continue reading →

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La Revue Recherches – all but one now available online (at a price)

Posted on March 15, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned the Recherches review more than a few times, because it was set up by Félix Guattari, and Foucault was involved in some discussions published in the journal. These conversations led to some collaborative work (a full bibliography here), some … Continue reading →

Posted in Felix Guattari, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Back from Oslo and the ‘Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure’ symposium

Posted on March 6, 2017 by stuartelden

I’m now back after a good trip to Oslo for the Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure symposium I spoke on the topic of “Terrain’s Volume”, which was a version of a talk I’ve now given in Gießen, Durham, and London. It’s nearing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, terrain, Uncategorized | 2 Comments