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A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on May 12, 2016 by stuartelden

A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power…

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon – published in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” has just been published by Theory, Culture and Society (Online First). The discussion from 1983 was previously only available as a recording in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley. Katie Dingley … Continue reading →

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Guardian Shakespeare Solos – new set of videos

Posted on May 10, 2016 by stuartelden

The final set of films in the Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series has been released. The five videos feature outstanding actors performing some of the playwright’s best known speeches. Damian Lewis delivers the funeral oration from Julius Caesar, Zawe Ashton gives … Continue reading →

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My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht in Derrida Today

Posted on May 10, 2016 by stuartelden

My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht, Albany: State University of New York, 2015 has now been published in Derrida Today (open access) or try here if that doesn’t work.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sartre, Neocleous, TCS, Gabrys, Foucault

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of books received – three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work, Jean-Paul Sartre’s What is Subjectivity?, Mark Neocleous’s The Universal Adversary, the new issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Jennifer Gabrys’s Program Earth, and the 2004 special issue … Continue reading →

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, 18-19-20 May 2016 programme

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

The next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography will be held at the University of Warwick on 19-20 May, 2016, with a screening and discussion of Sur les toits the evening before. The topic of this year’s conference is: “(Dis)Assembling state spaces: Conceptualising … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – now available worldwide

Posted on May 9, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now available worldwide – I’ve been getting a few messages to say that copies in North America are now being received. You can order direct from Polity’s distributor Wiley and, of course, other online retailers. Thank you to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Salter, Carrigan, Rossi, Chandler & Reid, and Shakespeare

Posted on April 29, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Mark Salter’s Making Things International 2, Mark Carrigan’s Social Media for Academics, Andrea Rossi’s The Labour of Subjectivity, David Chandler & Julian Reid’s The Neoliberal Subject, and three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 14 – receiving the reader reports, and working on Farge and Foucault, Le désordre des familles

Posted on April 28, 2016 by stuartelden

I now have the two reader reports on Foucault: The Birth of Power, which are overwhelmingly positive about the manuscript. But I still have a bit of work to do revising it. I aim to complete the revisions in the … Continue reading →

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Hamlet: three productions and three texts

Posted on April 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve now seen Hamlet five times in the last year, and three times in the last five weeks. Last year I saw Peter Sarsgaard in New York and Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican in London (my thoughts here and here). … Continue reading →

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