Category Archives: People

On the Trail of a Misplaced Reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic

Posted on December 21, 2025 by stuartelden

In Birth of the Clinic, Foucault quotes a passage which he incorrectly references to “S.A.D. Tissot, Avis aux gens de lettres sur leur santé, Lausanne, 1767, p. 28”. As part of the work for the new translation and edition of this text, we are … Continue reading →

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Two more Gilles Deleuze courses, ed. David Lapoujade, Éditions de Minuit, 2025

Posted on December 20, 2025 by stuartelden

After Sur la peinture in 2023 (translated as On Painting) and Sur Spinoza in 2024, David Lapoujade has edited two more volumes of Gilles Deleuze’s teaching, all with Éditions de Minuit: Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993) – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993) – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025 Des fantômes hantent ces pages, les fantômes de témoins disparus. Leur passage est annoncé par un propos du poète Paul Celan : « Nul ne … Continue reading →

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“Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian Hacking”, Monist special issue, 2025

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian HackingOctober 2025, Volume 108, Number 4 Editor: Fraser McBrideAdvisory Editors Paul A. Roth and Matteo Vagelli Does Entity Realism Hold Up? — Lydia PattonScientific Understanding Beyond Representing: Lessons from Ian Hacking’s Work — Oscar Westerblad and … Continue reading →

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Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026

Posted on December 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 Thanks to dmf for the link – looks good but expensive, even for the e-book

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Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024 I missed this when it came out last year – thanks to Richard Ashby for the link. Shame about the price though. Geopolitical … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 Update August 2026: there is a New Books discussion with Nathan Smith

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Boris Porshnev – from peasant revolts in 17th century France to cryptozoology and the quest for the Soviet Yeti

Posted on December 14, 2025 by stuartelden

I first read the work of the Soviet historian Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev because of Michel Foucault. (His name is sometimes transliterated, especially in France, as Porchnev.) In his 1971-72 Collège de France lectures, Penal Theories and Institutions, Foucault spends the first … Continue reading →

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Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation – trans. Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, February 2026

Posted on December 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation – trans. Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, February 2026 Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common language Hermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose – a few links for the thirtieth anniversary

Posted on December 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Today marks thirty years since Gillian Rose died so tragically young, at the age of just 48. I’ve shared these links before, but Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, was … Continue reading →

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