Category Archives: Michel Foucault

‘Tripping his brains out’ – Foucault in California reviewed in the TLS (and a clarification on chronology)

Posted on June 5, 2019 by stuartelden

‘Tripping his brains out‘ – Simeon Wade’s memoir Foucault in California is reviewed in the TLS. The piece generously quotes my work in Foucault’s Last Decade. But there is one key problem to the idea that this experience changed the course of … Continue reading →

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Canguilhem, Shakespeare, Snowdonia, Klagenfurt

Posted on May 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Last week I was in Cambridge for a book launch for Canguilhem (Polity 2019). The event was introduced by Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Simon Reid-Henry provided a generous and incisive reading of the book. There was a good discussion, and I’m grateful … Continue reading →

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Chloë Taylor, Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes – reviewed at NDPR by Jemina Repo

Posted on May 21, 2019 by stuartelden

Chloë Taylor, Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes: An Anti-Carceral Analysis, Routledge, 2019 is reviewed by Jemina Repo at NDPR. Here’s the publisher description: This book brings together Foucault’s writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on … Continue reading →

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Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman (eds.), Foucault’s Theatres – Manchester University Press, October 2019

Posted on May 21, 2019 by stuartelden

Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman (eds.), Foucault’s Theatres – Manchester University Press, October 2019 Among other things it includes a piece by me on Foucault and Shakespeare, and a new translation of an interview with Foucault from one of his … Continue reading →

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Draft programme for the Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference

Posted on May 20, 2019 by stuartelden

The draft programme for the Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference is available here. I’ll be giving a plenary lecture on ‘Foucault, Shakespeare and the Oath’ on the Thursday Friday afternoon, and there … Continue reading →

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Books received – review work for University of Minnesota Press

Posted on May 13, 2019 by stuartelden

Mainly older works by Agamben, Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault, but also some other books, including James Tyner, Dead Labor: Towards a Political Economy of Premature Death, Michèle H. Richman, Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie and Erin Felicia Labbie, Lacan’s … Continue reading →

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Carceral Notebooks 13: Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – now published open access

Posted on April 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Carceral Notebooks 13: Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – now published and essays available open access http://www.thecarceral.org/journal-vol13.html Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Bernard E. Harcourt, Dedication Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da … Continue reading →

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Three upcoming talks on Shakespeare – landscapes, Foucault, Kantorowicz and the oath

Posted on April 15, 2019 by stuartelden

I have three upcoming talks on Shakespeare. The first is the Fourth Denis Cosgrove lecture in the GeoHumanities, to be given at the British Academy on 23 May 2019, 6.30pm. I was asked to speak about the Shakespearean Territories book, and I … Continue reading →

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Books received – Latour, Valverde, Kantorowicz, and the two versions of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours

Posted on April 10, 2019 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour’s Où atterrir?, Mariana Valverde’s study of Michel Foucault, now in paperback, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Oeuvres – which I mainly got for the biography by Alain Boureau. Also in the pile is a second-hand copy of Foucault’s L’ordre du discours – and … Continue reading →

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Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, May 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, 2019 Renowned politics scholar Jenny Edkins explores the imperative for change in a world filled with inequality, violence, persecution, and injustice–and the difficulties of bringing it about. How … Continue reading →

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