Category Archives: People

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work

Posted on December 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work.

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | Leave a comment

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christian Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023

Posted on December 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christiane Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023 This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Antoniol, Foucault, Benveniste, Woodard

Posted on December 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt; Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures, edited by John Rajchman; and second-hand copies of Benveniste’s Problems in General Linguistics, Autour d’Émile Benveniste and Roger Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Emile Benveniste, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

Posted on December 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

Posted in Julia Kristeva, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Richard Lynch and Daniele Lorenzini, Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation – newly updated (2023)

Posted on December 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Lynch’s very useful Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation has been newly updated by Daniele Lorenzini. This is a continual work in progress, and updates and corrections should be sent to Daniele for inclusion in future versions (details … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Trailer for the film Umberto Eco: A Library of the World

Posted on December 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Umberto Eco: A Library of the World – Official Trailer I’ve shared the video below before, but a few years ago, and it’s still great. Umberto Eco, “I was always narrating“

Posted in Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

Six degrees of T.S. Eliot – the links through Jean de Menasce to Émile Benveniste

Posted on December 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Given how connected he was, I suppose it was only a matter of time before my Indo-European research project led me in the direction of T.S. Eliot. It came in the lead I was following with Jean de Menasce, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Bruno Latour, How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong, trans. Julie Rose – Polity, October 2023

Posted on December 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong, trans. Julie Rose – Polity, October 2023 In a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour | 1 Comment

Foucault News Info wanted: What fountain pen did Foucault write with?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

At Foucault News, Clare O’Farrell asks for information – What fountain pen did Foucault write with? Editor: I have recently developed an interest in fountain pens and was wondering if anybody knew what brand of fountain pen Foucault used? He may have used a … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The 13/13 Essays – material linked to the seminars of The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

For several years Bernard Harcourt and colleagues at The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought have been running a series of 13/13 seminars. The seminars usually have short essays by participants available online, and now they are being collected on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernard E. Harcourt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment