Category Archives: Michel Foucault

A year in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to my ‘best-of’ lists

I began 2016 with a lengthy manuscript on the 1969-75 period of Foucault’s work, partly developed from the large sections cut from the manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade. The main task accomplished in the first part of this year was … Continue reading

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An early Christmas present – an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Just before I head off on holiday, an advance copy of Foucault: The Birth of Power. The book will be available in the UK in January and a little later worldwide. There is a short post about it on the Polity … Continue reading

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Academic Books of 2016 – my personal list

Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most. … Continue reading

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon (open access)

Although it was available online earlier this year, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” is formally published in Theory, Culture & Society , Vol 34 No 1, pp. 3-27. It is currently available open … Continue reading

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Books received (1) – Connolly, Mentz, Wills, Magritte, Ghamari-Tabrizi, Marder

Some books received in recompense for review work from University of Minnesota Press.

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Short blog post on Foucault: The Birth of Power

Over at the Polity Books blog I have a short piece on Foucault: The Birth of Power, which will be out in very early 2017. In 1969 Foucault published The Archaeology of Knowledge, a theoretical and methodological treatise which summarised … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault update 1: a week at the Bibliothèque Nationale

My post at the end of last week on beginning work on a possible book on the early Foucault got some attention and enthusiasm, for which I am grateful. By the time I posted it I was already in Paris, … Continue reading

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Jacques Lacan’s earliest seminars from 1952-53 – a question

Jacques Lacan began his weekly seminars in 1951, and these moved to the Sainte-Anne hospital in 1952. There are reports that from the first Sainte-Anne series these were typed by a shorthand typist. These shorthand typescripts were the basis for … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault – beginning work on a possible book

When I was in Australia early last year I bumped into Mark Kelly on the University of Melbourne campus. We had a conversation about the work each of us was doing on Foucault, and I said that after I’d finished … Continue reading

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Interview with Tank magazine on Foucault’s Last Decade

I’m interviewed by Thomas Roueché in the new issue of Tank magazine about Foucault’s Last Decade. The interview was conducted by phone, and then transcribed.

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