Category Archives: People

Michel Foucault, “La magie – le fait social total” – a 1950s lecture published in Zilsel (2017), with an introduction by Jean-François Bert

Posted on February 11, 2019 by stuartelden

I missed this before, but a previously unpublished lecture from the 1950s, appeared in the journal Zilsel, No 2, in 2017. It was introduced by Jean-François Bert. Jean-François Bert, “Michel Foucault défenseur de l’ethnologie: « La magie – le fait social total », une … Continue reading →

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Which edition of Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic did Alan Sheridan actually translate?

Posted on February 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Update 4 February 2021: the initial work of a more comprehensive analysis is here. Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique was published in two editions in his lifetime. The first appeared in 1963 as the first volume in Georges Canguilhem’s ‘Galien’ series with … Continue reading →

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The changes between Foucault’s Maladie mentale et personnalité (1954) and Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962)

Posted on February 8, 2019 by stuartelden

  As mentioned in the last update on my research for The Early Foucault, I have done a comparison of the 1954 text Maladie mentale et personnalité and the 1962 Maladie mentale et psychologie. The full analysis can be found here. Foucault … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, edited by David Morley, Duke UP 2019

Posted on February 7, 2019 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, edited by David Morley, Duke University Press, 2019 Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall’s Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour interviewed in Artnet

Posted on February 5, 2019 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour interviewed in Artnet (via Graham Harman)

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The Early Foucault Update 23: the Hegel thesis and other manuscripts, Jean Wahl and Maladie mentale

Posted on February 1, 2019 by stuartelden

I’ve been continuing work on The Early Foucault manuscript, which is coming together quite well. After the Christmas and New Year break, I submitted a book review and chapter on quite different topics. I’m now in Paris, where I’ve been … Continue reading →

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David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault republished by Verso, with a new afterword by Stuart Elden

Posted on January 29, 2019 by stuartelden

David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault has now been republished by Verso, with a new afterword by me. It’s currently available with a 30% discount on the Verso site, with bundled e-book. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in … Continue reading →

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Daniela Vallega-Neu, Heidegger’s Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event reviewed at NDPR

Posted on January 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Daniela Vallega-Neu, Heidegger’s Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event reviewed at NDPR by Charles E. Scott. Here’s the publisher’s description: Engaging the development of Heidegger’s non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941, Daniela Vallega-Neu reveals … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Wall: A Q&A With Wendy Brown in The Nation

Posted on January 21, 2019 by stuartelden

Beyond the Wall: A Q&A With Wendy Brown in The Nation – connecting the ideas of her 2010 book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty to the current political situation. Thanks to dmf for this link.

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Gary Gutting (1942-2019)

Posted on January 20, 2019 by stuartelden

I’m sorry to hear the news of the death of Gary Gutting (on Daily Nous). Gutting was someone whose work I’ve known for a long time – Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason was an early book on Foucault I read, in … Continue reading →

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