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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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Day one in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Today was my first day doing work on Foucault in the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Alain Beaulieu wrote a useful guide to “The Foucault Archives at Berkeley”, in Foucault Studies in 2010, and much of what they have is also available … Continue reading →

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Titan Theatre Company’s all-female Othello in Queens

Posted on May 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Although I saw some remarkable theatre in late March and early April in the UK – Antigone, Death of a Salesman, Man and Superman and Clarence Darrow – it was good to get back to Shakespeare. First was the all-female Othello at the Queens Theatre, … Continue reading →

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Radical Philosophy 191 out – including pieces on data and surveillance by Chamayou and Aradau

Posted on May 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy 191 out – including pieces on data and surveillance by Grégoire Chamayou and Claudia Aradau. Those pieces are currently available open access.

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Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights – forthcoming in October 2015

Posted on May 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights is forthcoming later this year with Stanford University Press. This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the … Continue reading →

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