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Philippe Theophanidis on Foucault and the Problem of War

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Some useful bibliographical pointers to places where Foucault discusses the question of war from Philippe Theophanidis, beginning from this 1981 quotation. Therefore, if you like, I never stop getting into the issue of law and rights without taking it as a … Continue reading →

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“Interview with Stuart Elden” at Groundwork

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Another interview with me, conducted by Jordan Skinner, has been published at the Groundwork site – a blog run by past and present students of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. It ranges widely across … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Boundaries, Fossils, Foucault's Last Decade, Graham Harman, Martin Heidegger, Medieval Studies, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Publishing, Quentin Meillassoux, Shakespearean Territories, Society and Space, Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Universities, William Shakespeare, Writing | 1 Comment

Thompson and Zizek (ed.) The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting looking new collection just out with Duke University Press. The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The “speculative materialism” that he first … Continue reading →

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Discipline, Punish, Examine and Produce: Foucault’s La société punitive – Stuart Elden @berfrois

Posted on January 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review of Foucault’s La société punitive has now been published at Berfrois.

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Peter Trawny on Heidegger’s ‘black notebooks’ in Le Monde

Posted on January 28, 2014 by stuartelden

In Le Monde, Peter Trawny discusses Heidegger’s ‘black notebooks’ – thanks to enowning for the link.

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‘Territory and Transgression: A Conversation with Stuart Elden’ @thepolisblog

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

A long interview with me, conducted by Peter Sigrist, has just been published at Polis. It covers most of my current and past interests, including territory, Lefebvre, Foucault, Sloterdijk, Heidegger, politics,  my time in Israel/Palestine, publishing, literature and film… Many … Continue reading →

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State, Power, Freedom: European Political Theory – outline for teaching next year

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to, now back in a Politics department, was to teach some political theory. So, this is the outline of a planned module for either final year undergraduates or MA students. It revolves … Continue reading →

Posted in Giorgio Agamben, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, teaching | 1 Comment

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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