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A copy of Michel Foucault’s Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique

Posted on August 29, 2015 by stuartelden

It’s fairly well known that there are various editions of Foucault’s first major work – Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique. There is the original 1961 edition: Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, published by Plon and based … Continue reading →

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The revised order of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series

Posted on August 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has the details here. Now complete in Italian, and nearly in English: 1. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 2.1. State of Exception 2.2. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 2.3. The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 2 – work on early period at the Collège de France and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on August 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now being copy-edited, with a view to proofs in the autumn and hopefully publication in April. I worked with the same copy-editor for Sloterdijk Now. It’s always good to hear that the text I submitted is seen … Continue reading →

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First Volume of English translation of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ to appear in 2016

Posted on August 23, 2015 by stuartelden

The first volume of the English translation of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ will appear in 2016 with Indiana University Press. Ponderings II–VI begins the much-anticipated English translation of Martin Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks.” In a series of small notebooks with black covers, Heidegger … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground interview with Günter Figal on his work and his recent resignation as president of the Heidegger society in the wake of the ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on August 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Günter Figal – discusses his work and his recent resignation as president of the Heidegger society in the wake of the ‘Black Notebooks’.

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s next projects – “Earth” and “Veer Ecology”

Posted on August 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s next projects – “Earth” and “Veer Ecology” – details at In the Middle. When we return from Oregon I have a semester of leave to enjoy, so I will not be in the classroom for a while … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s posthumous publications – review in Inside Higher Education, and some corrections

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Two volumes of Foucault’s posthumous publications are reviewed in Inside Higher Education by Scott McLemee. The review looks at Speech Begins After Death and  Language, Madness and Desire, both published by University of Minnesota Press. The review doesn’t say very much at all about … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt’s marginalia to Heidegger’s Being and Time

Posted on August 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Enowning shares the news from Bard College: The marginalia in Hannah Arendt copy of Being and Time. Just a few underlinings. More here. The disappointment, apart from the very few traces, is that this is of Being and Time in the Macquarrie and Robinson translation, … Continue reading →

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Audio recording of talk on terrain and territory from AAG 2015

Posted on August 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my 22 April 2015 AAG talk on ‘The Geophysics of Territory’ is available here (18 minutes). This was in sessions co-organised with Gastón Gordillo; Derek Gregory and Setha Low acted as discussants. The talk ranges across quite … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist magazine – launch issue and subscription details

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

The Funambulist magazine – the new venture from Léopold Lambert to sit alongside his Funambulist blog and  Archipelago podcast – was launched this week. Léopold kindly gave me a copy when I saw him in Paris earlier this month. The first issue is on the … Continue reading →

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