Category Archives: People

Books received – Cowen, Doolen, Anderson, Boyd and Linehan, Foucault

Posted on September 8, 2014 by stuartelden

A pile of books received. Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics (from the publisher); Andy Doolen’s Territories of Empire (which I endorsed); Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect and Boyd &  Linehan’s Ordnance (in recompense for Ashgate review work); L’Herne’s 2011 volume … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

This is very intriguing – it seems Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees is coming out in French. His secondary thesis La vallée du Campan was published in 1963, but this is the first publication of … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 13

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. … Continue reading →

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David Harvey in conversation with Tariq Ali

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey in conversation with Tariq Ali – video here

Posted in David Harvey, Politics, Tariq Ali | 4 Comments

Heidegger Black Notebooks conference – New York, Sept 11-12 2014

Posted on September 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Peter Trawny, Richard Wolin, Thomas Sheehan, Emmanuel Faye, Karsten Harries and others – conference at CUNY, 11-12 September 2012. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for the link. Details of another conference on this theme in Atlanta the week before are here.  

Posted in Conferences, Martin Heidegger, Politics | 2 Comments

critical-theory.com – eight books that came out in August

Posted on September 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some interesting looking books here

Posted in Books, Slavoj Zizek | 1 Comment

Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – a bibliography with notes

Posted on August 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of Foucault’s collaborative projects are well-known – the I, Pierre Rivière collection; the Herculine Barbin memoir; Le désordre des familles with Arlette Farge; and the posthumous Technologies of the Self volume from the seminar at the University of Vermont. … Continue reading →

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‘Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault’ – Warwick, 25-27 September 2014

Posted on August 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation: Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault, University of Warwick, 25-27 September 2014 – full details here Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as philosophers have … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – one of Foucault’s collaborative projects

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking for a copy of this study for a while – Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – and then a couple of copies turned up on-line in good condition and for a reasonable price. I … Continue reading →

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Upcoming talks – Harvard, Groningen, Basel

Posted on August 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I have three visiting lectures coming up over the next couple of months. In mid-September, I’ll be speaking at a conference on ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad: From Revolution through the Gulf War and Beyond‘ at … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Foucault's Last Decade, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, Terror and Territory, Travel, urban/urbanisation, William Shakespeare | 3 Comments