Category Archives: People

Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections, in New Left Review (open access).

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 19: a nearly complete first draft

Posted on January 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update I’ve spent two long days working on the individual chapter files, checking and rechecking things, filling in references, and reorganising some things. In particular I reworked all the parts on the lettres de cachet. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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Books received – more for the Foucault project

Posted on January 23, 2015 by stuartelden

A few books for the Foucault project, including two by Pierre Hadot.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 18

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

The last major task of the first draft was a discussion of the final two Paris lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth. The first of these courses provides the basis for the October-November … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rancière Now, Badiou, Burke, Bourdieu, TCS and An Introduction to Political Geography

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Four books from Polity in recompense for review work; the new issue of TCS; and the second edition of An Introduction to Political Geography, which I endorsed.

Posted in Alain Badiou, Books, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Theory, Culture and Society | 1 Comment

Todd May reviews Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling at NDPR

Posted on January 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Todd May reviews Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, at NDPR. You can read my take on those lectures, and On the Government of the Living, at Berfrois.

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Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks. Daily Nous has the story – thanks to Graham Harman for the link. I admit to being puzzled by this – Figal took up the chair in … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar: Three words for the dead and the living

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the English translation of Étienne Balibar’s “Three words for the dead and the living“, originally published in Libération.

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A request for help – some difficult-to-find texts by Michel Foucault

Posted on January 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I wonder if anyone reading can help locate copies of these texts by, or about, Foucault. Texts crossed out are ones that I have been sent copies of already. Michel Foucault, “Photogenic painting”, translated by Pierre A. Walker, Critical texts, … Continue reading →

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CFP: Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene – special issue Deleuze Studies

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Call for papers, special issue Deleuze Studies – “Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene” – full details in pdf. This special issue of Deleuze Studies will engage the many philosophical tools provided by Deleuze and Guattari and their interlocutors in … Continue reading →

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