Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Not talking in Warwick and Leuven on Foucault

Posted on May 7, 2018 by stuartelden

Since I’ve mentioned that there would be talks in Warwick and Leuven on Foucault later this month, I should now say that neither will be happening, or at least not yet. Details of all future talks are here, and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Ruben Pfizenmaier reviews Foucault’s Last Decade at KULT online

Posted on April 27, 2018 by stuartelden

Ruben Pfizenmaier reviews Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity 2016) at KULT online. It’s a thoughtful and very generous review, available open access. Here’s the abstract. In Foucault’s Last Decade Stuart Elden portrays the intellectual history of the last ten years of Michel Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Changes and additions to Foucault News (2018)

Posted on April 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has an update on her excellent Foucault News site, which is now merged with her more general site on Foucault. The new domain name is https://michel-foucault.com Go here for all the details and links.

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Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil – Workshop at Columbia in Rio de Janeiro, and forthcoming publication

Posted on April 26, 2018 by stuartelden

News from Marcelo Hoffman of a workshop on Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil – to be held at Columbia University’s Center in Rio de Janeiro. Fortunately for those of us unable to attend, a publication is forthcoming. This … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century – forthcoming with Cambridge UP

Posted on April 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century – forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Thanks to James Tyner for the alert. The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh – talk at Goldsmiths, 9 May 2018

Posted on April 18, 2018 by stuartelden

I’ll be talking about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair at Goldsmiths University on May 9th at 3pm at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. Full details here. Richard Hoggart Building room 137, 3-5pm Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 … Continue reading →

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David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault – to be reissued by Verso in 2019, with Afterword by Stuart Elden

Posted on April 9, 2018 by stuartelden

David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault will appear in a reissued edition with Verso in January 2019, with an afterword by me. Update: now published. Verso site. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had … Continue reading →

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Books received – Delaporte, Lecourt, Ginestier, Eribon, Lichnerowicz, Perroux and Gadoffre

Posted on March 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books for the Canguilhem and Foucault work

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Review essay of Foucault, Les Aveux de la chair in Theory, Culture and Society (open access)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

My review essay of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair is now available in Theory, Culture and Society. The essay will appear in the annual review of the journal later this year, but this version is … Continue reading →

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