Category Archives: People

“Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre and Politics”, abstract for workshop at Theatre, Performance, Foucault!, King’s College London, 4 July 2015

Posted on May 22, 2015 by stuartelden

I previously shared the call for papers for the Theatre, Performance, Foucault! workshop at King’s College London on 4 July 2015. I’ll be presenting on the topic of “Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre and Politics”. This is the intersection of my two … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 3 Comments

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – now available in paperback

Posted on May 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – is now available in paperback. Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his … Continue reading →

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Foucault books: update 23 – working with the Semiotext(e) archive

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

I have now finished working through all the papers in Sylvère Lotringer’s Semiotext(e) archive in the Fales Library at New York University which have a relation to this project. In among a lot of things that were of little interest, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arlette Farge, Felix Guattari, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

David Kishik, The Manhattan Project – what would have happened had Walter Benjamin not died?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

David Kishik, The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City. In The Manhattan Project, David Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary … Continue reading →

Posted in urban/urbanisation, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View, now out from Polity. What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito – one … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Roberto Esposito | 2 Comments

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual – special issue on the Black Notebooks

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual – special issue on the – Black Notebooks. Contents at above link, or download whole issue as pdf.   

Posted in Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing | 2 Comments

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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