Category Archives: People

Details of Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures ‘Reach from the Sky’

Posted on December 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has shared further details of his Tanner lectures ‘Reach from the Sky‘, to be delivered in Cambridge on 13th January, with a discussion on 14th January. Admission is free but you will need a ticket from: tannerbookings@clarehall.cam.ac.uk (Tel: 01223 … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1982 lectures in Toronto and Kingston – were you there? A request for help

Posted on December 21, 2015 by stuartelden

In June 1982 Foucault gave a sequence of lectures in Toronto. At the end of June he gave a guest lecture at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, adapting one of the Toronto lectures for that audience. These lectures are being prepared … Continue reading →

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Foucault books received – including his first book Maladie mentale et personnalité

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

And these are the recent Foucault project books received – all bought second-hand. Most of these connect in some way to the work of the Groupe Information Asiles or Groupe Information santé, with the exception of a copy of the original … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cockburn, Benjamin, Agamben, Skornicki, GeoHumanities

Posted on December 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Some recent books – Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State and Walter Benjamin’s The Origins of German Tragic Drama, which I bought in the Verso sale; Arnault Skornicki, La grande soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, which I … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four and Six

Posted on December 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is taking shape. The first half of this book is comprised of three chapters: Measure, Inquiry, Examination. These treat, in order, Lectures on the Will to Know, Théories et Institutions Pénales, and The Punitive Society, along … Continue reading →

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Causes of deaths in Shakespeare’s plays visualised

Posted on December 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to Murray Low for sharing this graphic Here’s another one, which I’ve shared on the blog before (from Biblioklept)…

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Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the History of Madness

Posted on December 14, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update August 2026: a revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories‘ series of posts] In his 1971 interview with Fons Elders, rediscovered and then padded out to form a small book entitled … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – 3 Lectures

Posted on December 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – audio recordings of Birkbeck lectures from December 2015. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. … Continue reading →

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Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire

Posted on December 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire – now out from University of Minnesota Press, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking … Continue reading →

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Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading →

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