Category Archives: People

Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

In addition to the pieces linked a few days ago, this news from Philippe Theophanidis: An audio recording of a lecture Jean-Luc Nancy’s gave back in October 2014 just surfaced on the web. The title of the lecture is “Die Banalität … Continue reading →

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Ralph Miliband, Class War Conservatism, with preface by Tariq Ali (part available online)

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays by Ralph Miliband, Introduction by Tariq Ali – the introduction is partly available in The Guardian. When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband “The Man Who Hated Britain,” a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked … Continue reading →

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Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization – Neil Brenner exhibition at University of Melbourne

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

The MSD Dean’s Lecture Series 2015 presents an exhibition by the Urban Theory Lab (directed by Neil Brenner): Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization – Tuesday, 17 March 2015 – 9:00am to Friday, 3 April 2015 – 5:00pm, ALKF Gallery, University … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi – new book forthcoming

Posted on February 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Vrin are publishing a new collection of Foucault’s work – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi. This is two lectures – one from May 1978 and one from April 1983. The first was on Kant, and was published posthumously (and … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by stuartelden

As many readers of this blog will know, I’ve been posting various bits of news about Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ over the past year or so. In that time I’ve been asked to speak on Heidegger at events in the UK … Continue reading →

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Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt

Posted on February 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch and Hannes Gerhardt has been published by I.B. Tauris. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty … Continue reading →

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

Posted on February 16, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading →

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Heidegger and the Global Age – conference at Sussex, 29-30 Oct 2015

Posted on February 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Heidegger and the Global Age, 29-30 October 2015 at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, in Brighton, UK Full details on their website – keynotes include Joanna Hodge, Laurence Hemming, Fred Dallmayr and Peg Birmingham.

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Théories et Institutions Penales – Foucault’s 1971-72 course available to pre-order on Amazon.fr

Posted on February 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1971-72 lecture course, Théories et Institutions Pénales – the last to be published – is available to pre-order on Amazon.fr. Seuil does not have it listed on their site yet. It is again edited by Bernard Harcourt – who did the … Continue reading →

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