Category Archives: People

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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RSC trailer for Henry IV parts I and II

Posted on February 21, 2014 by stuartelden

More details here; and the RSC’s poll on Shakespeare’s greatest play here.

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Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence reviewed at NDPR

Posted on February 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence is reviewed at NDPR by Chloë Taylor.

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Martin McQuillan – Friends with Benefits: Shakespeare, Marx and Derrida – audio recording

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Martin McQuillan – Friends with Benefits: Shakespeare, Marx and Derrida – audio recording. The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS) brings leading Shakespeare scholars to the Rose, which the director Peter Hall created to be a “teaching theatre”. Here Sir Peter directed … Continue reading →

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A question for German and Italian Foucault scholars

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

A question that I hope someone can help with. For the German and Italian translations of Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, Foucault wrote a new preface. This appears in Dits et écrits as text number 190, but as a retranslation into French … Continue reading →

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Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives – translated into English

Posted on February 18, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve just discovered that Arlette Farge’s book Le Goût de l’archive was translated into English and was published last year as The Allure of the Archive. Farge worked with Foucault on the lettres de cachet collection Le désordre des families – also being translated … Continue reading →

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Essays by and on Stuart Hall – open access from Cultural Studies

Posted on February 14, 2014 by stuartelden

[update 6 May 2015 – it appears these texts are no longer open access] A number of essays by or on Stuart Hall have been made open access by Taylor & Francis – available here. They are mainly taken from Cultural … Continue reading →

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