Category Archives: People

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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Foucault, citizenship and refugees – translations and commentaries at Open Democracy

Posted on November 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s text ‘The rights and duties of international citizenship‘ is translated at Open Democracy. This statement was read by Foucault at a press conference on June 19, 1981, organized in association with Médecins du monde and Terre des hommes, in the presence of … Continue reading →

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Audio recordings of recent talks on Foucault – on Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-Pieds, and Foucault’s Collaborative Projects

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Audio recordings of two recent talks on Foucault, both of which draw on material from the manuscript of Foucault: The Birth of Power, with a little from Foucault’s Last Decade in the second talk. Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-Pieds, Historical … Continue reading →

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Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmfant for sharing this news – Tom Sperlinger’s book Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation. It’s about the experience of teaching at Al-Quds University – which I visited in 2013 (see here) – especially on Shakespeare. There is … Continue reading →

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What would Shakespeare do about Europe’s migrants?

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

“What would Shakespeare do about Europe’s migrants?” in The Economist. FOR months Sir Ian McKellen has been treating various audiences (including Marc Maron, a comedian and podcast host, and the Savannah Film Festival) to a monologue from a minor Elizabethan play entitled “Sir Thomas More”. … Continue reading →

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Verso – Space and Power: Celebrating the life of Edward Soja (1940-2015)

Posted on November 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Verso have published an online extract from Ed Soja’s Postmodern Geographies: the Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, on the production of space and power in Los Angeles.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital

Posted on November 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Two re-editions from the Penguin Shakespeare and two books sent by Verso – Jason W. Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life and Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital.

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – seminar at LSE, November 10th, 4.30pm

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk entitled “Foucault’s Collaborative Projects: Hospitals, Habitat, and Public Infrastructure” to the Cities, Space and Development seminar series of the Department of Geography & Environment, at the London School of Economics at 4.30pm. It will be held in … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade cover

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve been waiting to share the cover of Foucault’s Last Decade until the Polity Press webpage was complete, but it is now up on Amazon, so here it is. It will form a pair with Foucault: The Birth of Power – this book … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s 1964-65 seminar ‘Heidegger: The Question of Being and History’ to appear in English in April 2016

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

News of the next translation of the Derrida seminars – 1964-65’s Heidegger: The Question of Being and History, forthcoming in April 2016. After a bit of a delay it seems the seminars are on again – the second volume of La peine … Continue reading →

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