Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault Animated – video from The School of Life

Posted on July 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Installing Social Order shared this video about Foucault. I think it’s Alain de Botton speaking. The animation is very good, but the script could have used some serious work.

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Talks at three workshops – on Foucault and Artemidorus, Earth, and Foucault and Shakespeare – with links to some audio recordings

Posted on July 7, 2015 by stuartelden

I attended and spoke at three workshops last week. First, at the Monash University study centre in Prato, Italy, on modern reappropriations of Hellenistic Ethics. I ran a reading seminar on Foucault’s reading of Artemidorus. The other sessions were by … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Marlowe, Bercé

Posted on July 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Some second-hand copies recently bought – two editions of Shakespeare’s King John, the complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, and Yves-Marie Bercé’s Croquants et nu-pieds: Les soulèvements paysans en France du XVIe au XIXe siècle. The last is important background for what Foucault … Continue reading →

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Foucault Circle meeting at UNSW June 29-July 2, 2016 – call for papers

Posted on July 6, 2015 by stuartelden

The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle will be held in Sydney, Australia, June 29-July 2, 2016 (hosted by the University of New South Wales). The Foucault Circle at UNSW will be held immediately before the Australasian Association of Philosophy … Continue reading →

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Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Fourquet’s discussions of ‘Les équipements du pouvoir’

Posted on July 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Keith Harris has been saying a bit about Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Fourquet’s discussions of ‘Les équipements du pouvoir’. He first shared his reading notes on Guattari’s contributions to a discussion with Foucault and Fourquet; and has followed up today with … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade update 24 – other work while waiting for the reports, and the draft cover blurb

Posted on June 26, 2015 by stuartelden

This has been the period between submitting the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript and waiting for reader reports. I’ve largely been doing other things – talks on terrain and urban territory; editing a Lefebvre translation and writing its introduction; writing a … Continue reading →

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Exercises in the history of ideas: an interview with Stuart Elden — Dale Leorke & Suneel Jethani

Posted on June 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Dale Leorke & Suneel Jethani, “Exercises in the history of ideas: an interview with Stuart Elden“. The full version of this interview, which previously appeared in edited form on the Theory, Culture & Society website, is now available as an open-access … Continue reading →

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“Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales”, plenary lecture – Discipline and Punish Forty Years On, Nottingham 11 September 2015

Posted on June 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Here’s the abstract for my plenary lecture to the Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On conference, to be held at The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 11-12 September 2015. Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales This presentation will … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Mousnier, Lefebvre

Posted on June 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Two OUP editions of Shakespeare, Roland Mousnier’s Peasant Uprisings – used by Foucault in Théories et institutions pénales, and two first editions of Lefebvre’s books in Axelos’s Arguments series.

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Writing about writing, and writing about theory and the use of languages

Posted on June 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Two short pieces recently drafted – a contribution to an edited book on ‘How we Write’, and a piece on the use of other languages in my research. The first is entitled ‘Writing by Accumulation’, and in keeping with the … Continue reading →

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