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Update on the Foucault/13 Years at the Collège de France at Columbia University – places closed; live streaming details

Posted on September 13, 2015 by stuartelden

via Foucault News Update on the 13/13 series of seminars from the website The first seminar will take place  on September 14, 2015. Thank you very much for your interest in the series Foucault 13/13. The seminar has received an … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Prisons (and Elden on Schmitt) in Radical Philosophy open access to link to Nottingham conference

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

From the good people at Radical Philosophy, in relation to tomorrow’s conference: A free two-day conference, ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On,’ begins tomorrow at Nottingham Trent University, rethinking the legacy of Foucault’s text today and RP contributor … Continue reading →

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Preparing for the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On’ conference

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I’ll be giving the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. My talk is entitled “Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry … Continue reading →

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RSC new season announced – Hamlet, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr Faustus, The Alchemist, Don Quixote – but no King Lear

Posted on September 8, 2015 by stuartelden

The RSC’s new season for summer 2016 has been announced – Hamlet, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr Faustus, The Alchemist and Don Quixote…  The first three are in the main theatre; the non-Shakespeare plays in the Swan. I hope to get to all … Continue reading →

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Boris Porchnev/Porshnev on feudalism – were any of his works translated from Russian?

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

I mentioned Boris Porchnev/Porshnev in a previous post today, looking at the two editions of his work on peasant uprisings in seventeenth century France. Foucault uses his work in his reading of the Nu-Pieds revolts in Théories et institutions pénales. In Claude-Oliver … Continue reading →

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The Barbican’s production of Hamlet, with Benedict Cumberbatch

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Last Friday I went to see the Barbican’s production of Hamlet, directed by Lyndsey Turner, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, Anastasia Hille, and Siân Brooke. Tickets sold out very quickly, but occasionally returns become available and a bit of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Tawney, The ‘Katrina Effect’, La politique de l’espace parisien, Shakespeare

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A couple of recent Penguin Shakespeare plays, the reissue of Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (in recompense for review work), The ‘Katrina Effect’ (from the publisher), a couple of journal issues, and a copy of La politique de l’espace parisien. The … Continue reading →

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The World Post interview with Peter Sloterdijk – ‘Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One Being’

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

The World Post interview with Peter Sloterdijk – ‘Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One Being‘.

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Boris Porshnev – the two editions of Les soulèvements populaires en France: a book by one of Foucault’s key sources in Théories et institutions pénales

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Russian historian Boris Porshnev is one of Foucault’s key sources for the discussion of the Nu-Pieds revolts of 1639-40 in Théories et institutions pénales. Following my regular practice of reading Foucault’s sources as well as his own work using them, I bought a copy of … Continue reading →

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‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-8 November 2015

Posted on September 2, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking about ‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, at the Historical Materialism conference, to be held in London between 5-8 November 2015. Here’s the abstract: In his recently published lecture course from 1971-72, Théories et institutions pénales, Michel … Continue reading →

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