Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Reading texts, the canon, and historical access

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Having been away for the weekend I feel like the blog debate that has been going on about Derrida and realism has largely passed me by. That’s fine, in a sense, because it’s not something I’m especially concerned with. (You … Continue reading →

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Hiking and Reading

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

The weekend was spent hiking with Susan and friends in the Peak District, around the village of Edale. On Saturday, we went up to the plateau of Kinder Scout (and got absolutely drenched); and on Sunday up Mam Tor and … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Family – Cambridge conference

Posted on July 10, 2010 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – unfortunately can’t make it but may be of interest to some. Details below and poster here. Foucault, the Family and Politics Friday, 12 November 2010, Kings College, Keynes Hall, Cambridge Attendance free – but please register. … Continue reading →

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Foucault

Posted on July 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has a quotation from Foucault’s recently translated 1982-83 lecture course, The Government of Self and Others, up on her Foucault site, and a brief discussion here. It seems to me that the philosophical choice confronting us today is the … Continue reading →

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New Foucault journal

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

http://www.materialifoucaultiani.org

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Clare O’Farrell on Foucault and philosophy

Posted on June 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Clare on the state of philosophy as an academic discipline, both intellectually and institutionally – http://inputs.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/foucault-and-philosophy/

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OOO and GIS – request

Posted on June 14, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton – my co-editor on the Foucault and Geography book and a couple of other projects – has a request for OOO people on his Foucault blog… I wouldn’t mind getting a perspective on computer/GI Science “ontologies” from some … Continue reading →

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New Foucault book in English

Posted on June 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeremy has the news here that Government of Self and Others (vol I) is now translated. I read it in French when it came out a couple of years ago, and remember it being to my mind the least interesting of the … Continue reading →

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