Category Archives: People

Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pamphlet online

Posted on January 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Yesterday I linked to a piece written by Sartre and signed by Foucault and others. Thanks to dmf for providing a link to the entire pamphlet online. Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pdf or individual … Continue reading →

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Appeal by Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze and others on imprisonment of Italian intellectuals, 1977

Posted on January 13, 2016 by stuartelden

In 1977 Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze, Barthes, and others wrote an open letter protesting about the imprisonment and investigation of a number of Italian intellectuals, including ‘Bifo’ (Franco Berardi) and Antonio Negri. I’d not seen this before and it is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Politics, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia (Feb 2016)

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia will appear with Vrin in February 2016. This is a critical French edition of the English language lectures on parresia delivered at Berkeley in the autumn of 1983, previously published as Fearless … Continue reading →

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Planned Violence Keynote Lecture by Eyal Weizman and Reading from Courttia Newland, University of Warwick, 20 January 2016

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Registration for the final Planned Violence Keynote Lecture by Eyal Weizman and Reading from Courttia Newland, University of Warwick, 20 January 2016, is now open…. Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will deliver … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Eyal Weizman, Politics | 1 Comment

Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism – UCL, 12 Jan 2016, 12.30pm

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Just back from a week’s holiday, with no email or internet. Tomorrow at 1pm (refreshments from 12.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism”, to the Geography Department at University College London. … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 10 – Chapter Five and a complete first draft

Posted on January 4, 2016 by stuartelden

With Chapters Four and Six drafted, Chapter Five was the only one I didn’t have in a decent form. The first task for this was the section on the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons (GIP). Foucault was actively involved in this … Continue reading →

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Foucault, crime and prisons – on film and online

Posted on January 2, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve previously shared a list of audio and video recordings of Foucault, and I won’t repeat things here. But there are a few pieces of documentary evidence about Foucault’s work and crime and prisons which are full-length films. The best-known … Continue reading →

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100 years ago today – Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’

Posted on January 1, 2016 by stuartelden

I shared this a year ago, but since it was 100 years ago today… here is the translation of Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’, again. This text was first pub­lished in Avanti!, Turin edi­tion, from his col­umn “Sotto la … Continue reading →

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2015 in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to ‘best-of’ lists

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

I began 2015 with the manuscript of a book under the title Foucault’s Last Decade close, I thought, to completion. But it was far too long. In the end, I cut the first two long chapters out, and submitted a book … Continue reading →

Posted in Adam David Morton, Books, Conferences, Cycling, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Michel Foucault, Music, My Publications, Novels read, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, Society and Space, Territory, Travel, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The vast majority of academic reading in 2015 was related to Foucault, with a lot of Shakespeare work along the way. Many of these were published some time ago. These were the twenty books published in 2015 I read and most … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Haim Yacobi, Jacques Derrida, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Jenny Edkins, Judith Butler, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Roberto Esposito, Theory, Wendy Brown, William Shakespeare | 14 Comments