Category Archives: People

A year in review – publications, writing, talks, etc.

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

This is my last day of work in 2017. Tomorrow we head to Tenerife for ten days holiday, hoping for sunshine and lots of cycling. The last major work task I completed today was the copyediting queries for Shakespearean Territories. … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Cycling, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Music, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Early Foucault, Travel, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare, Writing | 1 Comment

My favourite academic books of 2017

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

Posted in Arlette Farge, Bruno Latour, Caren Kaplan, China Mieville, David Harvey, Ernst Kantorowicz, Eyal Weizman, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Setha Low, Sigmund Freud, Theory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation, William E Connolly, Writing | 12 Comments

Workshop Report from Territory, Law and the Anthropocene (Warwick, 1 December 2017)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

My brief Workshop Report from the Territory, Law and the Anthropocene event held at the University of Warwick, 1 December 2017 is now up at the ICE-LAW Project site. On 1 December 2017, the Territory subgroup held its second workshop, Territory, Law … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault in the Contemporary Archive

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

While I’m still waiting for her book, Foucault on Painting, to make it across the Atlantic, Catherine Soussloff has written a very interesting post about working on Foucault’s unpublished writings on painting to be found in the archives. Last spring, … Continue reading →

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Viewpoint Magazine forum on The Crisis of Marxism – Althusser, Balibar, Poulantzas, Buci-Glucksmann, etc.

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

The Crisis of Marxism – Asad Haider and Patrick King in Viewpoint Magazine Crisis Theory | Asad Haider In 1977 Louis Althusser gave a famous speech in Venice on “the crisis of Marxism,” a thesis almost as scandalous as that of an epistemological … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Nicos Poulantzas, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Titus Andronicus, Sheridan, Lorenzini & Sforzini and Weizman

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

The revised edition of the Arden Third Series, Titus Andronicus, edited by Jonathan Bate; a second-hand copy of Alan Sheridan’s Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth; Lorenzini and Sforzini’s collection Un demi-siècle d’ « Histoire de la folie »; and … Continue reading →

Posted in Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

The Early Foucault Update 15: Working on Maladie mentale et personnalité and some archival and library work in Paris

Posted on December 15, 2017 by stuartelden

Earlier this month I finished working through Maladie mentale et personnalité, which I discussed beginning in the last update, and have drafted a substantial section analyzing the book. I imagine I can only use a fraction of the quotes I … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Daniel Defert, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Canguilhem, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, Sigmund Freud, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Edward S. Casey, The World on Edge reviewed at NDPR by Fred Evans

Posted on December 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Edward S. Casey, The World on Edge is reviewed at NDPR by Fred Evans. I’d missed this book when it came out earlier this year, but looks like another important study by Casey. Here’s the press description of the book: From … Continue reading →

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Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above – forthcoming in January and open access introduction

Posted on December 6, 2017 by stuartelden

Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above – forthcoming in January from Duke University Press. You can read the introduction here. From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations … Continue reading →

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Political Thought, Time and History: An International Conference – Cambridge, 10-11 May 2018

Posted on December 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Full details and programme heherere. It is easy to assume that political thought is bound up with time and history.  To most historians, time and history are obvious dimensions of politics; politics occur in contexts which are temporal and historical, … Continue reading →

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