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Michael Joyce’s novel ‘Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden’ – reviewed at Berfrois

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Michael Joyce’s novel Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden – reviewed at Berfrois by Dave Ciccoricco. … Interrogating the status and resonance of unsent letters is one of the tantalizing tasks of Michael Joyce’s latest novel, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus … Continue reading →

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Thomas Sheehan’s new translation of Heidegger’s ‘What is Metaphysics?’

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Thomas Sheehan’s new translation of Heidegger’s ‘What is Metaphysics?’ is available to download here.

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Zamora and Behrent (eds.) Foucault and Neoliberalism – forthcoming in November 2015 from Polity

Posted on May 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The English version of the book which caused a storm last year – Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds.) Foucault and Neoliberalism – is forthcoming in November 2015 from Polity. Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading … Continue reading →

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Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published

Posted on May 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published. This is the last Collège de France course to appear, though it is the second in sequence, from 1971-72. Bernard E. Harcourt edited the text, it comes with … Continue reading →

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Data visualising Kant’s vocabulary – Valerio Pellegrini

Posted on May 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Data visualising Kant’s vocabulary – a design project by Valerio Pellegrini’s in his Master in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. Here’s a brief description and one sample image, but there are several different types. The tool stems from a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 22: work with the Semiotext(e) archive and manuscript submitted for review

Posted on May 12, 2015 by stuartelden

The manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I’ve said, was almost complete. It is now with the press for review. In the last couple of weeks, while in New York, I’ve chased down a few final references; read the very … Continue reading →

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Ansell-Pearson and Holroyd discuss George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman

Posted on May 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Keith Ansell-Pearson (Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University) and Michael Holroyd (author of a biography of Bernard Shaw) discuss the Nietzschean concept of the ‘übermensch’ and its influence on Shaw’s writing. A talk linked to the National Theatre production of … Continue reading →

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Day three in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A final day in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley (see my notes on day one and day two). Today I listened to some recordings they had of lectures in São Paulo. The library catalogue provides no information at all, and Beaulieu’s list just … Continue reading →

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Day two in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Another day working with the Foucault papers, and mainly the recordings, in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley (see my notes on day one). The tapes are listed in the Beaulieu piece on the archive, but many of these are … Continue reading →

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Jamin Raskin, “A last interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault”, City Paper – now found and available online

Posted on May 5, 2015 by stuartelden

I’d almost given up on this, but I now have a copy of one of the really elusive texts I’ve been hunting for – Jamin Raskin, “A last interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault”, City Paper, Vol 8 No 3, Jul 27-Aug 2 … Continue reading →

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