Category Archives: People

Books received – Foucault Lexicon, Lefebvre on Architecture, etc.

Posted on July 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment; Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night; Janet Ruane’s Essentials of Research Methods; Bernard Pivot, Ecrire, Lire et en Parler (which contains the French version of a Foucault interview that is not in Dits et Écrits); the new issues of Theory, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Society and Space, Theory, Culture and Society | 1 Comment

Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 12

Posted on July 24, 2014 by stuartelden

After what has felt like a long break from working on this book, I’ve begun writing again. Some of this was during a recent trip to Ghana. The first part of Chapter Six looks at the collaborative projects Foucault was involved … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Felix Guattari, Foucault's Last Decade, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Writing | 3 Comments

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life reviewed by Eduardo Mendieta

Posted on July 16, 2014 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life reviewed by Eduardo Mendieta at NDPR.

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Robert T. Tally Jr. – Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism

Posted on July 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert Tally, newly published in the Marxism and Culture Series at Pluto Press: Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s legacy: an interview with Frédéric Gros

Posted on July 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault’s legacy: an interview with Frédéric Gros at the Verso blog, a translation of an interview originally in Le Monde.

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Judith Butler reviews Jacques Derrida, The Death Penalty Volume I

Posted on July 9, 2014 by stuartelden

In the London Review of Books, Judith Butler reviews Jacques Derrida, The Death Penalty Volume I.

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New issue of Radical Philosophy, including discussion of the politics of translation

Posted on July 8, 2014 by stuartelden

A new issue of Radical Philosophy is out, including a very interesting discussion of the politics of translation. The specific case is Hegel, and the new Terry Pinkard translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit, but the issues raised go beyond this … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernesto Laclau, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Politics, Publishing | 1 Comment

Foucault’s major works to appear in a Pléiade edition

Posted on July 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault’s major works – his sole-authored books, plus some articles – will appear in a two-volume collection in 2015 as a prestigious Pléiade edition. Thanks to Colin Gordon for alerting me to the news. Frédéric Gros is interviewed about this here (in French). Among … Continue reading →

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Globe, Governmentality, Geometrics – poster for my Groningen lecture in September

Posted on July 7, 2014 by stuartelden
Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault, Politics | 2 Comments

Completing other tasks – returning to the Foucault’s Last Decade project

Posted on July 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few months I’ve taken a break from the Foucault work, due to other commitments. Some of these were related to The Birth of Territory. One was an author response to ‘critics’ from the session on the book at the Association of American … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Foucault's Last Decade, Kostas Axelos, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Politics, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Travel, William Shakespeare, Writing | 2 Comments