Category Archives: People

Back in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Caen tomorrow for the Foucault work

Posted on November 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale today. A few hours going through another box of Foucault’s manuscripts at the Richelieu site, then over to the François Mitterrand site to go through some newsletters and pamphlets relating to his activism. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Recherches, Foucault, Fourquet, Shakespeare, Vasudevan, Whatmore

Posted on November 25, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books bought or received. Alex Vasudevan’s Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin was sent by him; and Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History? came from Polity – preordered in recompense for review work. Both look really interesting. … Continue reading →

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Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds – forthcoming collection from Punctum with essays by Levinas, Bauman, Agamben… and Elden

Posted on November 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds – forthcoming collection edited by Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela from Punctum. Includes essays by Levinas, Bauman, Agamben, Harman and many others, including a piece by me entitled ‘Outside Territory’ which is mainly on Shakespeare. Some of … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – available to preorder

Posted on November 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now available to preorder, either direct from the publisher or at online bookstores. It’s currently scheduled for May 2016, but might be a little earlier. It will be in hardcover and paperback, the latter going for £17.99 … Continue reading →

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Poster for Shakespeare and territory talk in Cambridge on Wednesday 25 November

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Details at the Cambridge University Geography Society Facebook page.

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 7 – working at the Bibliothèque Nationale and a meeting with Foucault’s nephew

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Last week was spent at the Bibliothèque Nationale again, continuing the work on the Foucault papers archived there. I worked through four boxes – the last of the five boxes of preparatory notes for Surveiller et punir that also relate to … Continue reading →

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Shiloh Krupar, ‘Operation Banality’ – second Neil Smith lecture at St Andrews

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Shiloh Krupar will give the second Neil Smith lecture at St Andrews on Tuesday – ‘Operation Banality: Medical Geographies of Administration and the Biopolitical Grotesque’. Thanks to Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations for the link – also reports lecture will be online … Continue reading →

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The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John – UCL Monday 23 November 2015

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving a talk with the title of ‘The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John’ tonight at UCL. Monday 23rd November, 6pm, IAS Talking Points seminar, Common Ground, University College London – with responses by Professor Helen Hackett, … Continue reading →

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“Mourning becomes the law”—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website

Posted on November 16, 2015 by stuartelden

“Mourning becomes the law“—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website [Update: it appears that the page has been removed – the link was previously correct. Please comment if you know the new site. There is an archived version here.]

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 6 – working on The Punitive Society, drafting Chapter Three, work on Chapter Six and giving some talks

Posted on November 16, 2015 by stuartelden

The bulk of the recent work has been on Chapter Three. This is mainly a discussion of The Punitive Society, along with related materials. The chapter is based on a long review essay I wrote on the French original for Historical Materialism … Continue reading →

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