Category Archives: People

Judith Butler lectures on the Performative Theory of Assembly

Posted on December 30, 2015 by stuartelden

The Sociological Imagination has gathered up online lectures relating to Judith Butler’s new book Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly.  Here’s the first of them – the ‘Human Shield’ London Review of International Law lecture given at the LSE in February 2015:

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A previously unpublished 1983 conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon – forthcoming in Theory, Culture and Society

Posted on December 29, 2015 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” is forthcoming in Theory, Culture and Society. I found a recording of the discussion in the Berkeley archive, and since I knew Jonathan, got in touch. We had a conversation … Continue reading →

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Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Posted on December 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, is now published with University of Chicago Press.  When the book came out in French I provided a note of the original English-language sources. What … Continue reading →

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Details of Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures ‘Reach from the Sky’

Posted on December 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has shared further details of his Tanner lectures ‘Reach from the Sky‘, to be delivered in Cambridge on 13th January, with a discussion on 14th January. Admission is free but you will need a ticket from: tannerbookings@clarehall.cam.ac.uk (Tel: 01223 … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1982 lectures in Toronto and Kingston – were you there? A request for help

Posted on December 21, 2015 by stuartelden

In June 1982 Foucault gave a sequence of lectures in Toronto. At the end of June he gave a guest lecture at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, adapting one of the Toronto lectures for that audience. These lectures are being prepared … Continue reading →

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Foucault books received – including his first book Maladie mentale et personnalité

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

And these are the recent Foucault project books received – all bought second-hand. Most of these connect in some way to the work of the Groupe Information Asiles or Groupe Information santé, with the exception of a copy of the original … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cockburn, Benjamin, Agamben, Skornicki, GeoHumanities

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Some recent books – Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State and Walter Benjamin’s The Origins of German Tragic Drama, which I bought in the Verso sale; Arnault Skornicki, La grande soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, which I … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four and Six

Posted on December 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is taking shape. The first half of this book is comprised of three chapters: Measure, Inquiry, Examination. These treat, in order, Lectures on the Will to Know, Théories et Institutions Pénales, and The Punitive Society, along … Continue reading →

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Causes of deaths in Shakespeare’s plays visualised

Posted on December 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to Murray Low for sharing this graphic Here’s another one, which I’ve shared on the blog before (from Biblioklept)…

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Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the History of Madness

Posted on December 14, 2015 by stuartelden

In his 1971 interview with Fons Elders, rediscovered and then padded out to form a small book entitled Freedom and Knowledge, Foucault says that publishers have tended to illustrate his work on madness with Bruegel, Bosch and Goya. But he … Continue reading →

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