Category Archives: People

Arun Saldanha, Space after Deleuze – now out with Bloomsbury

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Arun Saldanha, Space after Deleuze – now out with Bloomsbury, but unfortunately only in a grotesquely priced hardback. Deleuze’s fondness for geography has long been recognised as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the … Continue reading →

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Interview on Foucault: The Birth of Power at New Books in Critical Theory

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

How did Foucault become a public, political intellectual? In Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press, 2017), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, follows up his book on Foucault’s Last Decade with research … Continue reading →

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to my guide and reissue of Key Writings

Posted on November 4, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve made some minor updates to my guide Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? The key thing added is the reissue of Key Writings, now available in Bloomsbury’s Revelations series.  

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Interviews about my Foucault books on New Books in Critical Theory (audio)

Posted on November 3, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve just been interviewed by Dave O’Brien for the New Books in Critical Theory series about Foucault: The Birth of Power. The podcast of that interview should be available shortly and I’ll share when available [update: now available here]. In the … Continue reading →

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Bruce Robbins in The Nation reviews Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on November 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Bruce Robbins in The Nation reviews my two books Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power. It’s a generous and thoughtful review, and while I wouldn’t agree with all of it, I’m very grateful for the review and the … Continue reading →

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CFP: Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri Lefebvre

Posted on October 31, 2017 by stuartelden

Details of a theme issue devoted to Lefebvre’s work. Do check the journal’s open access policy and article processing charges (see also here). CFP: Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri LefebvreEditor: Michael Leary-Owhin (London South Bank University, UK) Deadline … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Althusser, Connolly, Heron, the Ellen West case and Sword

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

The Turkish translation of Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, which includes my introduction to the English edition; Althusser’s How to be a Marxist in Philosophy, William E. Connolly’s Facing the Planetary, Nicolas Heron’s Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology, a collection of … Continue reading →

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Conference on Foucault’s History of Sexuality volume IV, Paris, 1-3 February 2018

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to Clare O’Farrell at Foucault News for this link – Colloque International: Foucault, Les Pères et le sexe, Paris, 1-3 February 2018. A l’occasion de la parution du quatrième et dernier volume inédit du projet d’histoire de la sexualité … Continue reading →

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The differences between the English and French versions of Foucault’s 1983 interview on Raymond Roussel

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

As an appendix to the English translation of Foucault’s book on Raymond Roussel, entitled Death and the Labyrinth, there is an interview with the translator Charles Ruas. It’s a revealing interview in many ways, but the particular interest I have … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume II reviewed at NDPR

Posted on October 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume II reviewed at NDPR by Deborah Goldgaber. Here’s the publisher’s description of this volume: In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: … Continue reading →

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