Category Archives: People

Christopher Watkin, French Philosophy Today now in paperback

Posted on September 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin, French Philosophy Today: New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour is now available in paperback. Contemporary French philosophy is laying fresh claim to the human. Through a series of independent, simultaneous initiatives, arising in … Continue reading →

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Clarence Glacken’s ‘Traces on the Rhodian Shore’ at 50: Summaries and reflections

Posted on September 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Philip Conway discusses the recent session on Clarence Glacken’s ‘Traces on the Rhodian Shore’ at 50 held at the RGS-IBG conference. He also shares an archive interview between Glacken and Allan Pred.

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Michel Foucault’s acid trip in Death Valley: Interview with Simeon Wade with great archival photos (updated)

Posted on September 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Updated 14 November 2017: I’ve just heard that Simeon Wade died in October, making this interview even more important. There is a brief obituary here. My condolences to Wade’s family. Boom California has just published an interview with Simeon Wade, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Punitive Society and my two Foucault books reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton

Posted on September 12, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault’s The Punitive Society lecture course and my Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton. It’s a long, thoughtful and generous review. As well as saying many insightful things about the books reviewed, … Continue reading →

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5 Critical Theory books from August 2017

Posted on September 12, 2017 by stuartelden

5 Critical Theory books from August 2017 – a useful roundup of Agamben, Kleinberg, Morton, Johnson and Lubin, and Evangelou.

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The Early Foucault update 11: Working in the Canguilhem archive at the École normale supérieure and at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Posted on September 8, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been in Paris again for a few days, this time mainly to work at the Canguilhem archive at the Centre d’Archives de Philosophie, d’Histoire et d’Édition des Sciences (CAPHÉS) at the École normale supérieure. The collection comprises multiple boxes … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Sur les toits – full film on prison revolts in early 1970s France now available on Youtube

Posted on September 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Nicolas Drolc’s excellent film Sur les toits is now available in full on Youtube. It’s a documentary on the prison revolts in early 1970s France, with some references to the Prisons Information Group Foucault co-founded. The film is in French, with … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler interviewed by Aaron Aquilina and Kurt Borg in CounterText

Posted on September 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Judith Butler is interviewed by Aaron Aquilina and Kurt Borg in CounterText (requires subscription). It’s a fascinating interview with a particular focus on her interests in literature, especially Kafka, and then moves to a discussion of her career trajectory and relation … Continue reading →

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Nicole Loraux, “War in the Family”, translated by Adam Kotsko (open access)

Posted on September 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Nicole Loraux’s essay “War in the Family” has been translated by Adam Kotsko, and is open access in the new issue of Parrhesia. As Adam writes, “This previously untranslated essay is discussed at length in the first half of Agamben’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Evangelou, Gratton, Girard, Webster, Shakespeare?

Posted on September 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work for Palgrave and Bloomsbury – King Edward III, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Girard’s Violence and the Sacred, Peter Gratton’s Speculative Realism and Angelos Evangelou’s Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida. Although … Continue reading →

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