Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four and Six

Posted on December 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is taking shape. The first half of this book is comprised of three chapters: Measure, Inquiry, Examination. These treat, in order, Lectures on the Will to Know, Théories et Institutions Pénales, and The Punitive Society, along … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the History of Madness

Posted on December 14, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update August 2026: a revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories‘ series of posts] In his 1971 interview with Fons Elders, rediscovered and then padded out to form a small book entitled … Continue reading →

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Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sperlinger, Zurn and Dilts

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A couple of volumes of the Penguin Shakespeare series, Tom Sperlinger’s Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation, and Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts’s collection Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition. I provided an endorsement of Active … Continue reading →

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Review essay on Foucault’s The Punitive Society published at Historical Materialism

Posted on December 8, 2015 by stuartelden

My review essay on Foucault’s La société punitive (now translated as The Punitive Society) has been published at Historical Materialism. The article requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 8 – working at the IMEC archive and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on December 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Since I returned from my last visit to Paris, I had one week back in England where I gave a couple of talks on Shakespeare. One was on ‘The Majesty and Territories of King John’ at UCL’s Institute of Advanced … Continue reading →

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Back in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Caen tomorrow for the Foucault work

Posted on November 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale today. A few hours going through another box of Foucault’s manuscripts at the Richelieu site, then over to the François Mitterrand site to go through some newsletters and pamphlets relating to his activism. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Recherches, Foucault, Fourquet, Shakespeare, Vasudevan, Whatmore

Posted on November 25, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books bought or received. Alex Vasudevan’s Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin was sent by him; and Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History? came from Polity – preordered in recompense for review work. Both look really interesting. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – available to preorder

Posted on November 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now available to preorder, either direct from the publisher or at online bookstores. It’s currently scheduled for May 2016, but might be a little earlier. It will be in hardcover and paperback, the latter going for £17.99 … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 7 – working at the Bibliothèque Nationale and a meeting with Foucault’s nephew

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Last week was spent at the Bibliothèque Nationale again, continuing the work on the Foucault papers archived there. I worked through four boxes – the last of the five boxes of preparatory notes for Surveiller et punir that also relate to … Continue reading →

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