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Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] – Heyday 2019

Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] – Heyday 2019. This is the famous/infamous memoir of Simeon Wade, with a foreword by Heather Dundas. In The Lives of Michel Foucault, … Continue reading

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CFP: From Sense to Machinic Becoming – the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference Royal Holloway, University of London 8-10 July 2019

CFP: From Sense to Machinic Becoming – the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference Royal Holloway, University of London 8-10 July 2019 The year of the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari conference marks the 50th anniversary of three crucial … Continue reading

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Shakespearean Territories – slight publication delay

Shakespearean Territories was due to be published this week, but there is a slight delay – apparently due to the printer and to paper shortages in the US (this really is a thing). It should available very soon, hopefully in the … Continue reading

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Design Agency within Earth Systems – 26 October 2018, Architecture Association, London

Design Agency within Earth Systems – 26 October 2018, Architecture Association, London Further details here. I’ll be in discussion with Neil Brenner and Jose Alfredo Ramirez at the end of the event.

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Foucault, La Sexualité (Clermont-Ferrand 1964) and Le Discours de la sexualité (Vincennes 1969) – published

Foucault’s 1964 course from Clermont-Ferrand La sexualité together with the 1969 course from Vincennes Le discours de la sexualité has now been published – received a copy yesterday. This is the first of a planned seven volumes of material from before … Continue reading

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 – finally published!

Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 was originally due to appear in January 2018. It slipped many times – to March, May, September and finally October. A copy should now be on its way… … Continue reading

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Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy – Oxford, 28-30 March 2019

Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy – Oxford, 28-30 March 2019 – details and call for papers (English and French) Balliol College – University of Oxford (UK) Keynote Speakers: Jean-Luc Nancy (University of Strasbourg) and Emmanuel Falque (Catholic University of Paris) Organisers: Marie … Continue reading

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A few thoughts on ‘Foucault at the Movies’ – Columbia University Press 2018

When Foucault va au cinéma came out in 2011, I immediately got hold of a copy. It was a collection of excerpts from Foucault’s interviews about and discussions of films, prefaced by two new introductory essays by Patrice Maniglier and Dork … Continue reading

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Cover design, endorsements and preorder details for Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity, 2019

I’m pleased to share the cover design of my forthcoming book Canguilhem (Polity, 2019). It’s part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series and is available to preorder from Wiley in ebook, paperback and hardcover. The book is due for publication in February … Continue reading

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Books received – Latour, TCS, Erlenbusch-Anderson, Geroulanos and Meyers, Benite, Geroulanos and Jerr (eds.), Bataille

Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime; the latest Theory, Culture and Society which is a theme issue on Bataille and Heterology; Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire; Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, … Continue reading

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