Category Archives: People

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to make it across the Atlantic, Catherine Soussloff has written a very interesting post about working on Foucault’s unpublished writings on painting to be found in the archives.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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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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Drone Imaginaries and Society, Odense, June 5-6 2018

Posted on December 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Drone Imaginaries and Society – full details here (via Geographical Imaginations) University of Southern Denmark, June 5-6, 2018 Room Sky (Odense Campus College) Organizer: Kathrin Maurer (Phd, Dr. Phil) Associate Professor of German Studies kamau@sdu.dk Keynote Speaker: Derek Gregory: Peter Wall … Continue reading →

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Books received – Harvey, Eribon, Hay, Lister & Marsh, Danchev, Goodstein

Posted on December 2, 2017 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s The Ways of the World; the first edition of Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault; Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State: Theories and Issues; Alex Danchev’s biography of Georges Braque; and Elizabeth Goodstein’s Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade reviewed at Manchester Review of Books

Posted on December 2, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been rather preoccupied the last few days with hosting the second Territory workshop of the ICE-LAW project, of which more later. But I’ve just seen this very nice review of my 2016 book Foucault’s Last Decade in Manchester Review of … Continue reading →

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