Category Archives: People

‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

History Workshop have made available a previously unpublished essay by E.P. Thompson here.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – sample pages available

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Sample pages for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization are now available on the publisher’s website. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s seminar on The Death Penalty – volume 1 published in English

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Volume 1 of Derrida’s 1999-2000 seminar on The Death Penalty has been published in English. In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument … Continue reading →

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Antony and Cleopatra @theRSC

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Last night I went to see Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the smaller Swan Theatre. Despite a few fluffed lines from Jonathan Cake as Antony, it was a good production, effectively edited and reimagined in Haiti. The … Continue reading →

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Campbell and Sitze, Biopolitics: A Reader – introduction available online

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

This looks a useful resource – Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, Biopolitics; A Reader. The introduction is available online here. This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social … Continue reading →

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Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco translator William Weaver has died

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Crooked Timber has the news here, and links to an obituary in The Guardian.

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A short previously untranslated comment by Foucault on religion, witches and madness – and the need for a structuralist study

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Update August 2026: Material from this post has been used in a longer discussion, The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. In a post earlier this week I discussed a text of Foucault’s from 1969 on … Continue reading →

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Philippe Artières, Intolérable – Groupe d’information sur les prisons

Posted on November 21, 2013 by stuartelden

A collection of the writings of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, edited by Philippe Artières, was published earlier this year by Gallimard – full details here. I’m not sure how this text relates to an earlier collection Artières was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Médecins, Juges et Sorciers au XVIIe Siècle’ – some thoughts on dating and content

Posted on November 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Update August 2026: An updated and expanded version of this post is The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. There is a curious text by Foucault, initially published as «Médecins, juges et sorciers au XVIIe siècle», Médecine de … Continue reading →

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Latour on War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict

Posted on November 20, 2013 by stuartelden

(via Anthem)

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