Category Archives: People

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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Michel Foucault and Jean-Pierre Peter – some thoughts on sources of ‘the abnormals’ and the case of Pierre Rivière

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Abnormals lecture course, Foucault refers to a veritable rogues’ gallery of murderers, cannibals and perverts. The latter term, of course, is one that he examines in terms of its historical emergence – what counts as a deviation, an … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La société punitive – some more details

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

While the date of publication for Foucault’s La société punitive has slipped yet again to 5 December 2013, there are a few more details up on amazon.fr: L’organisation d’une pénalité d’enfermement n’est pas simplement récente, elle est énigmatique. Qu’est-ce qui pénètre dans … Continue reading →

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Citizenship After Orientalism (Oecumene) project – Final Conference 6-7 March 2014

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

The final conference of Engin Isin’s Citizenship After Orientalism (Oecumene) project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) will be held in Milton Keynes on 6-7 March 2014. Draft programme available here, along with details of an international school for postgraduates as … Continue reading →

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