Category Archives: People

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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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot’s prison letters to Slavoj Žižek

Posted on November 17, 2013 by stuartelden

A remarkable exchange of letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot and Slavoj Žižek, published in The Guardian. [Update – a little more here]

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Books received – Caygill, Schmitt, Heath-Kelly

Posted on November 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Howard Caygill, On Resistance (see also Jacqueline Rose’s review here); Carl Schmitt’s Dictatorship; and Charlotte Heath-Kelly’s Politics of Violence.

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Judith Butler and Cornel West – Honoring Edward Said video

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A really interesting conversation between Butler and West on the tenth anniversary of Said’s death. Thanks to Sławek Królak for the link.

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Gastón R. Gordillo, Rubble – coming in August 2014

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Duke University Press have a page up for Gastón R. Gordillo‘s new book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Little there yet, beyond an August 2014 publication date, and this endorsement from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: At the edges of the dreamscapes put … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Education

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Sue Middleton’s book Henri Lefebvre and Education: Space, Theory, History is forthcoming in November with Routledge. During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more…

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