Category Archives: People

David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 4: The Space and Time of Value

Posted on November 30, 2016 by stuartelden

David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 4: The Space and Time of Value

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Interview with Tank magazine on Foucault’s Last Decade

Posted on November 23, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m interviewed by Thomas Roueché in the new issue of Tank magazine about Foucault’s Last Decade. The interview was conducted by phone, and then transcribed.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – discussion with Peter Gratton, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor in Symposium (open access)

Posted on November 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton, “Foucault’s Last Decade: An Interview with Stuart Elden, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor“, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol 20 No 2, 2016, pp. 181-211. The interview is open access in pdf form.

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Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World and Other Writings review at NDPR

Posted on November 17, 2016 by stuartelden

My review of Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World and Other Writings has been published at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Eugen Fink (1905-1975) is not sufficiently well known in the Anglophone world, in part because of the lack … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sullivan, Rogers, Foucault companion, journals

Posted on November 16, 2016 by stuartelden

. A copy of Garrett Sullivan Jr’s classic The Drama of Landscape, kindly sent by Garrett. I use this extensively in my work on Shakespeare. Dallas Rogers also sent a copy of his new book The Geopolitics of Real Estate, … Continue reading →

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Endorsements for Foucault: The Birth of Power from Caren Kaplan and Bernard Harcourt

Posted on November 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Two very generous endorsements for my next book Foucault: The Birth of Power, due out in early 2017. ‘Foucault: The Birth of Power opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing … Continue reading →

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When did Foucault translate Leo Spitzer?

Posted on November 10, 2016 by stuartelden

One of the few translations made by Michel Foucault, and perhaps the most unusual, was an essay by literary theorist Leo Spitzer. It was published as “Arts du langage et linguistique”, in Leo Spitzer, Etudes de style, Paris: Gallimard, 1970, pp. 45-78. (There are … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Making of Subjects – book launch at Goldsmiths,28 Nov 2016, 6pm

Posted on November 10, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault and the Making of Subjects – book launch at Goldsmiths,28 Nov 2016, 6pm Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics – audio recording of Cambridge talk

Posted on November 10, 2016 by stuartelden

On 7 November 2016 I gave a talk to the Political Thought and Intellectual History seminar, University of Cambridge, entitled “Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics”. An audio recording is available here.

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Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea – a new translation

Posted on November 9, 2016 by stuartelden

In 2015 Telos Press published a new translation of Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation. While in Cambridge earlier this week I was kindly given a copy by the translator, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin. Originally published in 1942, at … Continue reading →

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