Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Conference on Foucault’s History of Sexuality volume IV, Paris, 1-3 February 2018

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to Clare O’Farrell at Foucault News for this link – Colloque International: Foucault, Les Pères et le sexe, Paris, 1-3 February 2018. A l’occasion de la parution du quatrième et dernier volume inédit du projet d’histoire de la sexualité … Continue reading →

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The differences between the English and French versions of Foucault’s 1983 interview on Raymond Roussel

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

As an appendix to the English translation of Foucault’s book on Raymond Roussel, entitled Death and the Labyrinth, there is an interview with the translator Charles Ruas. It’s a revealing interview in many ways, but the particular interest I have … Continue reading →

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Audio and video recordings of Foucault – some updates to the list of those available online

Posted on October 23, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve added a few things to the list of Foucault audio and video recordings available online. These include a 1972 interview on the re-edition of Histoire de la folie (small charge to download). There are also five linked radio discussions with … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 13: Writing during Termtime

Posted on October 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Even though it is now well into term, with all the things that entails, I have been able to make small bits of progress on The Early Foucault manuscript. I’ve said before how I try to write for two hours in … Continue reading →

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Sawyer & Steinmetz-Jenkins (eds.), Foucault, Neoliberalism and Beyond – forthcoming in 2018

Posted on October 16, 2017 by stuartelden

Stephen W. Sawyer & Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (eds.), Foucault, Neoliberalism and Beyond – forthcoming in 2018 from Rowman & Littlefield International. Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press. A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with … Continue reading →

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Carceral Notebooks 13 – Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Carceral Notebooks 13 – Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – forthcoming in 2018 Edited by Marcelo Hoffman, this looks fascinating. Foucault made several visits to Brazil and gave some important lectures there. This issue looks to provide some important historical and … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 12: A writing/cycling retreat and some time in London’s libraries

Posted on September 29, 2017 by stuartelden

As I said at the end of the last update on this book project, after the week in the Paris archives I took a week away on a kind of writing/cycling retreat. It started as the idea of a holiday, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert on the Foucault-Sartre relation – a 1990 letter

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

This was not a source I knew about before: Daniel Defert, “Lettre à Claude Lanzmann”, Les Temps Modernes, No 531-533, Vol 2, 1990,  pp. 1201-1206. It’s a short piece in a massive 1400 page collection devoted to Sartre, ten years after … Continue reading →

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Genealogy and Political Theory, 29 September 2017, Amsterdam

Posted on September 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Workshop: Genealogy and Political Theory, 29 September 2017, 10.00 hrs. – 17.00 hrs. Campus Roeterseiland, building J/K, room B22 (Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam) In recent years, there has been a proliferation of works of and on genealogy by political theorists and historians … Continue reading →

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