Category Archives: People

Books received – White on Genet and Voeltzel, Vingt ans et après

Posted on December 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Edmund White’s biography of Genet, and Thierry Voeltzel, Vingt ans et après – a collection of dialogues with (an anonymous) Foucault (see Foucault News for details).

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Luce Irigaray Circle Conference: Topologies of Sexual Difference – Melbourne – 10-12 Dec 2014

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2014 The Communication, Politics and Culture Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, with the support of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, will host an … Continue reading →

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Foucault audio and video recordings – a chronological list with links

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Last year I listed all the Foucault audio recordings I could find online. I’ve now updated the list, and reordered them chronologically. These are now all listed on this page (as part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ part of this site). There … Continue reading →

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Richard Polt and Gregory Fried in conversation with Thomas Sheehan about Heidegger

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Richard Polt and Gregory Fried in conversation with Thomas Sheehan at 3am (via Enowning). The discussion is around the reading proposed in Sheehan’s new book, but it also touches on Heidegger’s politics and the revelations of the ‘black notebooks’.

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Heidegger’s fountain pens

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

A discussion of the pens on Heidegger’s desk – via Enowning. I’d say it’s what he wrote with them that’s important, except that pens do find their way into his philosophy as examples of tools.  

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Neil Brenner, ‘Urban Governance – But at What Scale?’ – video from Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference

Posted on December 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, ‘Urban Governance – But at What Scale?’, Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference, Delhi (via Multipliciudades).

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History of Sexuality volume II – detailed discussion of the three different introductions

Posted on December 5, 2014 by stuartelden

On a page on this site I discuss in detail the three versions of the introduction to the History of Sexuality volume II. The May 1984 version, which introduced the book itself – L’usage des plaisirs, translated as The Use of Pleasure. An earlier … Continue reading →

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Bibliography of texts discussing Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on December 4, 2014 by stuartelden

I wouldn’t usually link to Wikipedia, but this is a very useful list of text and recordings that discuss Heidegger’s Schwarze Hefte, the ‘Black Notebooks’. Thanks to Andrzej Serafin for the work, and for sending me the link.

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Bal Sokhi-​Bulley on Governmentality at Critical Legal Thinking

Posted on December 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Bal Sokhi-Bulley, ‘Governmentality: Notes on the Thought of Michel Foucault‘ at Critical Legal Thinking.  

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Giorgio Agamben, Pilate and Jesus – forthcoming in February 2015

Posted on December 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, Pilate and Jesus, translated by Adam Kotsko – forthcoming in February 2015. Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a … Continue reading →

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