Category Archives: People

Bruno Latour, The New Climate in Harper’s Magazine (open access)

Posted on April 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, The New Climate in Harper’s Magazine (open access) By Bruno Latour, from The Great Regression, a collection of essays edited by Heinrich Geiselberger that will be published next month by Polity. Latour is a philosopher and the author, … Continue reading →

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NDPR reviews – Foucault/Derrida, Heidegger on Nietzsche and Nail’s Theory of the Border

Posted on April 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Three interesting reviews at NDPR Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, and Samir Haddad (eds.), Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Christopher Penfield – here Thomas Nail, Theory of the Border by Avery Kolers – here Martin Heidegger, … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Hubert Dreyfus (1929-2017)

Posted on April 23, 2017 by stuartelden

I heard the news yesterday that Hubert Dreyfus had died at the age of 87. While it was shared on social media, it took a while for an official notification. Dreyfus’s Twitter account simply said ‘Reports of my demise are … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 6: Foucault’s teachers, and returning to his work on Binswanger

Posted on April 13, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve largely been able to continue the focus of the last update, with a series of fairly uninterrupted days’ research and writing. Aside from continuing work on Lacan, I’ve also been looking at the people who taught Foucault. Merleau-Ponty is … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Ludwig Binswanger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

10 Critical Theory books from March 2017

Posted on April 13, 2017 by stuartelden

A little late, but still a very useful roundup from Critical Theory: Pettifor, May, Adamczak, Grosz, Badiou & Cassin, Eyers, Bonneuil & Fressoz, Grusin, Grossman, and Ogden.

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The Early Foucault and the Politics of European Intellectual History – Amsterdam lecture, 31 May 2017

Posted on April 12, 2017 by stuartelden

While visiting ACCESS Europe in Amsterdam, I’ll be giving this public lecture: “The Early Foucault and the Politics of European Intellectual History“, 31st May, 5pm This lecture by ACCESS EUROPE Visiting Scholar Stuart Elden reports on a project tracing the intellectual … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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