Category Archives: People

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023 This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on … Continue reading →

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Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2023

Posted on November 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, trans. Amélie Berger-Soraruff, Andrew Iliadis, Daniel W. Smith and Ashley Woodward, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2023 [October 2025: link updated to the Bloomsbury site. They also publish the earlier translation The Genesis of Living … Continue reading →

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023

Posted on November 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille correspondence – taking a look at the bound volumes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Posted on November 16, 2023 by stuartelden

A lot of letters to and from Georges Bataille have been published (for example, here), but the two bound volumes of correspondence at the Bibliothèque nationale are still something to behold. Given how much of his library and correspondence has … Continue reading →

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Holly Langstaff, Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot – Edinburgh University Press, October 2023 (print and open access e-book)

Posted on November 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Holly Langstaff, Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot – Edinburgh University Press, October 2023 (print and open access e-book)

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Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German – MHRA, Autumn 2024

Posted on November 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German – MHRA, Autumn 2024 Hardback initially, but paperback and e-book forthcoming The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this … Continue reading →

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A new translation and critical edition of Michel Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic – edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Stuart Elden, translated by Marie Satya McDonough – beginning a new project

Posted on November 9, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m very happy to be working with Tony Bruce at Routledge, Stefanos Geroulanos (as co-editor) and Marie Satya McDonough (as translator) on a new translation and critical edition of Michel Foucault’s classic book Birth of the Clinic. This will be a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on – conference in Buenos Aires, 13-17 November 2023

Posted on November 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Buenos Aires conference next week on Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on. Apologies for not having a link to a conference website – happy to update if anyone knows of one. [Update: Foucault News has a pdf … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 14: returning to work, tracking Benveniste’s teaching, and working with archives including the Aurel Stein collections in London

Posted on October 31, 2023 by stuartelden

I have now been back at work for a few weeks, initially beginning half-time and gradually increasing what I can do. The support I have had from my department for a long period off work and a phased transition has … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023

Posted on October 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023 Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South … Continue reading →

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