Category Archives: People

Interview with Mark Kelly on Foucault and Biopolitical Imperialism

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Fully Automated Episode 2: Biopolitical Imperialism with Mark G.E. Kelly Our guest this week is Mark G. E. Kelly, an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Politics, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The textual issues around Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

While it is somewhat outside the time period I am currently working on, Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’ lecture is interesting because it is one of the few instances for which there is a textual record of an engagement between … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

It seems Jacques Lacan struggled to get his students to do the reading too…

Posted on April 10, 2017 by stuartelden

Last time I wanted to give you an initial insight into the meaning of the question – what happens beyond the pleasure principle? My great friend Jean Hyppolite, who isn’t here today because he is in Germany, told me he … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Books received – Lacan, Freud and Earth, Tree and Traffic from the Object Lessons series

Posted on April 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Second-hand copies of Lacan’s Ecrits (the old Sheridan translation) and Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious; along with Earth, Tree and Traffic from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, sent by the publisher. Earth looks especially interesting – not just … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Lacan, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Early Foucault update 5: Canguilhem, Merleau-Ponty, Politzer, Lacan…

Posted on April 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Until about a week ago I was focusing on the terrain work, for the London Review of International Law lecture, the conference in Oslo, and the lecture in Maynooth. But in and around other things I was also doing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Georges Canguilhem, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Saskia Sassen – A world unified by the golden rule: expropriation

Posted on April 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen – A world unified by the golden rule: expropriation – interview with Il Manifesto (via e-flux).

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Alberto Toscano, Notes on Late Fascism

Posted on April 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Alberto Toscano, Notes on Late Fascism at Historical Materialism, a seminar from February 2017 at Simon Fraser University.

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On the appearance of books in a series

Posted on April 1, 2017 by stuartelden

This post probably speaks to a collector’s instinct in me, or something else, but I really dislike the way that publishers mess with the design of books in a series. It is especially annoying when the books are released in sequence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Freud’s papers on technique in English – a summary of the suggestions

Posted on April 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Earlier this week I asked this question: As part of my work on the early Foucault, I’m working through Lacan’s early seminars. I want to read the texts of Freud which Lacan is discussing first. The first extant volume of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Yates, Wilson, Toal

Posted on March 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Two volumes of Freud for the Foucault work; Julian Yates, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multi-Species Impression sent by the publisher; Richard Wilson’s Will Power: Essays on Shakespearean Authority; and Gerard Toal’s Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments