Category Archives: People

Foucault’s Last Decade – sixth update

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Much of the recent work on this project has been continuing work on Chapter Three, especially the discussions of perverts, women and children. I keep reworking sections and adding more and more detail, well aware some of this will need … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – now has a page with links

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve created a page on this blog under Future Projects for the Foucault’s Last Decade book. This has the proposal, links to the updates I’ve posted here about the book’s progress, and links to a couple of audio recordings of papers. … Continue reading →

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The Critical-Theory Guide to Shit That Happened in 2013, Arbitrarily Ranked

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

These are good – and cover the pope, Brad Pitt as Plato, Banksy and Hannah Arendt, Feminist Ryan Gosling being no more, the Zizek operas, and others…

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The Funambulist on Stoler, Foucault and Race

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The Funambulist has an interesting post on ‘The Desired Colonized Body: Foucault and Race by Ann Laura Stoler‘. I clearly remember reading Stoler’s text Race and the Education of Desire while doing my PhD, and finding its discussion of Foucault’s as-then-unpublished lecture course … Continue reading →

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Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events – new link to collection and my piece on Lefebvre

Posted on December 29, 2013 by stuartelden

This is a new download link for Bik Van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects (eds.), Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events, Vancouver: Western Front, 2011. The previous link was broken, and thanks to Himanshu Burte for alerting me to this. The … Continue reading →

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Marxism and Monsters – China Miéville

Posted on December 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGlo2Dd_ku8 http://chinamieville.net/

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Althusser’s 1966 piece on the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Posted on December 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting piece from Althusser in 1966: “Cultural Revolution, Party, State and Conjuncture” The English translation was recently shared  by Decalages. Originally published (in French) in late 1966 it is a very early analysis of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution based entirely … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes … Continue reading →

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Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault (2013)

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Damien Boquet, Blaise Dufal, Pauline Labey (éd.), Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2013 Publisher’s page Further info on Les émotions au Moyen Âge site Cette réflexion de Jacques…

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Bob Jessop’s 1984 book on Nicos Poulantzas available as a free pdf

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Bob Jessop’s excellent 1984 book on Nicos Poulantzas available as a free pdf at bobjessop.org

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