Category Archives: People

Books received – Foucault, Brown, Golder, Ashgate, etc.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently bought, earned or complimentary books: Foucault’s The Punitive Society, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos, Ben Golder’s Foucault and the Politics of Rights, four books in recompense for review work for Ashgate, and recent issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Transactions … Continue reading →

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History and Theory special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

History and Theory have a special forum on Foucault and Neoliberalism (requires subscription). Thanks to Timothy Johnson and others for the alert.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 4 – collaborative work and a complete draft of Chapter One on the Lectures on the Will to Know and related materials

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on various aspects of this project. The first was a return to some of Foucault’s collaborative projects around CERFI. Quite late in the drafting of Foucault’s Last Decade I removed most of the … Continue reading →

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Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, The Disorder of Families – to appear in fall 2016 with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on September 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, The Disorder of Families [Le Désordre des Familles] will appear in fall 2016 with University of Minnesota Press. Nancy Luxon is editing the text, and her website says there will be a companion scholarly volume – also announced … Continue reading →

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Roberto Esposito. ‘Biological Life, Political Life’, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1 Oct 2015 5pm

Posted on September 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito lecture, ‘Biological Life, Political Life‘ at Goldsmiths, University of London, 1 Oct 2015 5pm.

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Foucault 2/13 – recording and materials for Columbia seminar on Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972) with Harcourt, Balibar, Ewald and Spivak

Posted on September 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)…  Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures along with the posts by Etienne Balibar and François Ewald, and the framing essays by Velasco and Harcourt. Readings for … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in February [now July] 2016 – Verso page and available to pre-order

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, translated by David Fernbach and edited and introduced by Stuart Elden, is forthcoming in February July 2016. Verso’s page for the book is now live and it is available to pre-order. In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Nail, Wikileaks, RIS, Leibniz, Groupe Information Santé

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stuartelden

A real mix of stuff – a collection edited by Lefebvre on Fourier, Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant (which I endorsed and mentioned last week); the new issue of Review of International Studies; Verso’s new book The Wikileaks Files; an offprint of an … Continue reading →

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‘Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales’ – audio recording of talk to Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On conference

Posted on September 24, 2015 by stuartelden

I recently gave 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 was entitled “Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions … Continue reading →

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Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction)

Posted on September 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction). French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of ‘poststructuralism’ in the Anglophone world. However in France, … Continue reading →

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