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Peter Adey lectures at Durham – IAS and Geography

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Peter Adey of Royal Holloway is a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham this term – these are his lectures during his time there (via rhulgeopolitics). First, on Monday 27 January, there’s ‘Light and Levitation: Vertical Critique‘. … Continue reading →

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Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Ann Radcliffe and the geography of crime – a question on La société punitive

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

[Update: apologies, but the editor of the course, Bernard Harcourt, notes that this text is an ‘apocryphal novel’ on p. 62 n. 18. Don’t know how I missed that. Nonetheless, it does rather the question of whether the translation into … Continue reading →

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Progressive Geographies’s Foucault and Lefebvre resource pages

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

There are now two pages of Foucault resources and Lefebvre resources – gathering a few different posts on this site together. They include short translations, the reading guide to Lefebvre and a few other bits and pieces. There is not … Continue reading →

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Three letters from Bergson to Deleuze

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

At the CIEPFC site, three letters from Bergson to Deleuze (in French), originally published in Critique in 2008 – thanks to John Protevi for the link. [Update: I should have realised this from the dates, but these are a fabrication – Bergson died when … Continue reading →

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Works of twentieth-century theory that exist in new or revised translations – further examples wanted

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

As I said I would last week, I’m preparing a detailed post on why we need a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, and was thinking of other major works of twentieth-century theory that exist in more than one translation. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Publishing | 7 Comments

Sloterdijk interview in the LA Review of Books

Posted on January 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Sloterdijk is interviewed in the LA Review of Books, mainly on Spheres I: Bubbles. Thanks to ANTHEM for the link. The interview was conducted by a reading group at UC Irvine, where Sloterdijk later gave the Wellek Library lectures. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Kant and the Concept of Race reviewed at NDPR

Posted on January 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Jon M. Mikkelsen (ed., tr.), Kant and the Concept of Race: Late Eighteenth-Century Writings, SUNY Press, 2013 – reviewed by John Zammito at NDPR.

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Re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 17, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the day in the State Library of Victoria, re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and comparing them carefully to Surveiller et punir. This took me much longer than anticipated. I knew this text well – I’ve taught it quite a … Continue reading →

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In Melbourne, visiting Monash University

Posted on January 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m spending the next several weeks in Melbourne, visiting Monash University as part of the Monash-Warwick alliance. As anyone following the tennis will know, it’s extremely hot here at the moment. But I’m finding libraries and offices to work in, … Continue reading →

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