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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Example’

Posted on July 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has a draft of his contribution to a collection on writing with which I am also involved: ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Example‘. (A little more on my … Continue reading →

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Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Fourquet’s discussions of ‘Les équipements du pouvoir’

Posted on July 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Keith Harris has been saying a bit about Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Fourquet’s discussions of ‘Les équipements du pouvoir’. He first shared his reading notes on Guattari’s contributions to a discussion with Foucault and Fourquet; and has followed up today with … Continue reading →

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Mary Beard on the last stages of writing a book – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Posted on June 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Mary Beard has an interesting piece on the last stages of writing a book – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Ok I know you will think that you have heard this before, but the book is now within 1000 … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade update 24 – other work while waiting for the reports, and the draft cover blurb

Posted on June 26, 2015 by stuartelden

This has been the period between submitting the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript and waiting for reader reports. I’ve largely been doing other things – talks on terrain and urban territory; editing a Lefebvre translation and writing its introduction; writing a … Continue reading →

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Massimo Cacciari, The Witholding Power: An Essay on Political Theology – forthcoming from Bloomsbury

Posted on June 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Massimo Cacciari, The Witholding Power: An Essay on Political Theology – forthcoming from Bloomsbury in December 2015. The first English translation of his work, The Witholding Power, offers a fascinating introduction to the thought of Italian philosopher Massimo Cacciari, a … Continue reading →

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Exercises in the history of ideas: an interview with Stuart Elden — Dale Leorke & Suneel Jethani

Posted on June 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Dale Leorke & Suneel Jethani, “Exercises in the history of ideas: an interview with Stuart Elden“. The full version of this interview, which previously appeared in edited form on the Theory, Culture & Society website, is now available as an open-access … Continue reading →

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“Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales”, plenary lecture – Discipline and Punish Forty Years On, Nottingham 11 September 2015

Posted on June 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Here’s the abstract for my plenary lecture to the Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On conference, to be held at The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 11-12 September 2015. Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales This presentation will … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Mousnier, Lefebvre

Posted on June 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Two OUP editions of Shakespeare, Roland Mousnier’s Peasant Uprisings – used by Foucault in Théories et institutions pénales, and two first editions of Lefebvre’s books in Axelos’s Arguments series.

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Félix Guattari on writing Anti-Oedipus in The Paris Review

Posted on June 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Félix Guattari on writing Anti-Oedipus in The Paris Review (via critical-theory.com).

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Writing about writing, and writing about theory and the use of languages

Posted on June 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Two short pieces recently drafted – a contribution to an edited book on ‘How we Write’, and a piece on the use of other languages in my research. The first is entitled ‘Writing by Accumulation’, and in keeping with the … Continue reading →

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