Category Archives: People

Changes and additions to Foucault News (2018)

Posted on April 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has an update on her excellent Foucault News site, which is now merged with her more general site on Foucault. The new domain name is https://michel-foucault.com Go here for all the details and links.

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Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil – Workshop at Columbia in Rio de Janeiro, and forthcoming publication

Posted on April 26, 2018 by stuartelden

News from Marcelo Hoffman of a workshop on Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil – to be held at Columbia University’s Center in Rio de Janeiro. Fortunately for those of us unable to attend, a publication is forthcoming. This … Continue reading →

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‘Shakespeare’s View of the World’ – Warwick news story on my forthcoming Shakespearean Territories

Posted on April 24, 2018 by stuartelden

Yesterday was Shakespeare’s birthday, and Warwick used the date to put out a brief story about my forthcoming book Shakespearean Territories. Entitled ‘Shakespeare’s View of the World‘ it has some quotes from me about how Shakespeare helps us to understand territory. … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 17: Canguilhem, Beinecke library and back to Foucault

Posted on April 19, 2018 by stuartelden

I wrote the last update on this book over two months ago, just as I was finishing up an extended research visit to Paris. Since then I’ve mainly been focusing on the Canguilhem manuscript, which is inching toward a near … Continue reading →

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Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century – forthcoming with Cambridge UP

Posted on April 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century – forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Thanks to James Tyner for the alert. The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh – talk at Goldsmiths, 9 May 2018

Posted on April 18, 2018 by stuartelden

I’ll be talking about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair at Goldsmiths University on May 9th at 3pm at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. Full details here. Richard Hoggart Building room 137, 3-5pm Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 … Continue reading →

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Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer

Posted on April 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer in Historical Materialism (open access). Some interesting discussion of his relation to Lefebvre, among other themes. A French version of this interview was originally published at  http://revueperiode.net/gramsci-geographe-entretien-avec-stefan-kipfer/ Your research interests include a recurrent … Continue reading →

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David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault – to be reissued by Verso in 2019, with Afterword by Stuart Elden

Posted on April 9, 2018 by stuartelden

David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault will appear in a reissued edition with Verso in January 2019, with an afterword by me. Update: now published. Verso site. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had … Continue reading →

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Catherine Millot, Life with Lacan reviewed by Stuart Jeffries in The Spectator

Posted on April 9, 2018 by stuartelden

The English translation of Catherine Millot, Life with Lacan is reviewed by Stuart Jeffries in The Spectator The review is open access. Here’s Polity’s description of the book. ‘There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan’s essential … Continue reading →

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Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis – now out with Cambridge

Posted on April 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis – now out with Cambridge University Press This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective … Continue reading →

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