Category Archives: People

Foucault talks next week in Melbourne – and thanks for this week

Posted on February 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Many thanks to everyone who came to the two talks this week on The Birth of Territory at Monash and RMIT. There were good audiences for both and some interesting questions. I recorded the RMIT talk and will try to upload … Continue reading →

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9 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in February from Critical-Theory.com

Posted on February 27, 2014 by stuartelden

9 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in February from Critical-Theory.com – Althusser, Negri, Miller, Bartlett/Clemens/Roffe, Constantinou, Butler, Braun, Losurdo, Epstein.

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The Life Penalty: Foucault, Derrida, Bamber – abstract for a possible conference

Posted on February 26, 2014 by stuartelden

I have been asked if I’d be interested in speaking at a planned conference on ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishments’, which sounds intriguing, although somewhat outside of my usual research interests. At the moment it is not at all clear that … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Marxism: Ideology, Interpellation and Subjectivation – open access virtual issue

Posted on February 26, 2014 by stuartelden

A virtual theme issue from Rethinking Marxism on ‘Ideology, Interpellation and Subjectivation’ is available here, with contributions from Althusser, Montag, Krips, Macherey, etc. Since its inception in 1988, Rethinking Marxism has been a major platform for extending key Althusserian themes, including the debates … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – ninth update

Posted on February 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve worked through the first volume of the History of Sexuality, in both French and English. There are, to my mind, not nearly as many translational issues with this as with Surveiller et punir/Discipline … Continue reading →

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Melbourne talks on The Birth of Territory and Foucault – final details

Posted on February 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Final details for my four talks over the next two weeks in Melbourne: 26 February 2014, 12.30pm, “The Birth of Territory”, Monash University, Melbourne (Room N502, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus) – flyer, website 27 February 2014, 5pm, “The Birth of Territory”, RMIT University, Melbourne … Continue reading →

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, The Birth of Territory, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Roland Boer on Foucault’s Care

Posted on February 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Roland Boer has a piece on Foucault’s late work on care at Political Theology Today.

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Angela Davis to return to UCLA

Posted on February 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Forty-five years after her one and only lecture at UCLA, Angela Davis returns. Full story (with some discussion of Stuart Hall’s legacy too) here: Fortunately, Professor Davis returns to UCLA as our Regents Professor and Lecturer this spring (2014), where she will … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” – translation out in September

Posted on February 22, 2014 by stuartelden

The long awaited – it’s been forthcoming since the 1990s – translation of Martin Heidegger’s 1934-35 lecture course Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine”, is due out in September 2014. The translators are William McNeill and Julia Ireland, also responsible for … Continue reading →

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Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power – sample chapter available

Posted on February 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous’s book War Power, Police Power has just been published. You can read a sample chapter here. In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous deals with these questions … Continue reading →

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