Category Archives: People

Foucault’s Last Decade – seventh update

Posted on January 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Recent work has been across a number of chapters. First, further work on Chapter Three entitled ‘Pervert, Hysteric, Child’. As well as the pieces I wrote on Psychiatric Power and The Abnormals, in my files I also had a draft … Continue reading →

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Verso’s Radical Thinkers series 8 out – first excerpt at critical-theory.com

Posted on January 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Series 8 of Verso’s Radical Thinkers is now out. I’ve just received my copy of Althusser’s The Spectre of Hegel. To celebrate, Critical-Theory will be releasing 8 free excerpts from Verso over the next few weeks from recently released series. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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Stockerblog on Foucault’s Punitive Society II

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Stockerblog continues the reading of Foucault’s  La société punitive – here (part one here).

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On Derrida’s 1964-65 course on Heidegger (review in French)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

A review (in French) of Derrida’s 1964-65 course Heidegger la Question de l’Être et l’Histoire. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society I

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Last month EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil Paris published Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the 1972-73 academic session, in fact they all date from 1973. The edition has been prepared by Bernard Harcourt under the direction…

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London Critical Theory Summer School 2014

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

The fifth London Critical Theory Summer School will take place at Birkbeck, University of London from 7th July – 18th July. This unique opportunity is for graduate students and academics to follow a course of study with some of the … Continue reading →

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Foucault – ‘Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual’ 1980 interview online

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

The Foucault interview entitled ‘Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual’ was conducted on 3 November 1980, and first published in History of the Present 4 (Spring 1988), 1-2, 11-13, although some excerpts appeared in the Berkeley student newspaper in 1980. Because it … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – planned book now has a dedicated page

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve consolidated all the links to audio recordings and other pieces on a dedicated page for the Shakespearean Territories planned book project. This project has slipped a bit recently, as I’ve been concentrating on the Foucault’s Last Decade book, but I … Continue reading →

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Kyle McGee – Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Kyle McGee’s Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks was published late last year. Looks interesting, with an examination of Latour’s legal theory. It comes with two very positive endorsements, including one from Latour himself. Great shame about the price though.

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