Category Archives: People

Stuart Elden, ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’, Modern French Research Seminar, University of Cambridge (online), 31 January 2022

Posted on January 20, 2022 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking about my ongoing Foucault work, and particularly the book on the 1960s, in an online seminar for the University of Cambridge on 31 January 2022 at 5-6.30pm. The public registration link for the seminar is here.

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Jean Hyppolite, Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel – Classiques Garnier, January 2022

Posted on January 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Jean Hyppolite, Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel – Classiques Garnier, January 2022, edited by Giuseppe Bianco Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel, la thèse principale de Jean Hyppolite, publiée pour la première fois … Continue reading →

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Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel – ENS 2022 

Posted on January 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel – ENS 2022 Contre une lecture simpliste de l’anti-hégélianisme que Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault ont défendu dans les années 1960, l’ouvrage propose un parcours dans les textes … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 13: drafting the chapters on The Archaeology of Knowledge and sexuality; moving to work on madness and medicine

Posted on January 7, 2022 by stuartelden

My optimistic idea of having a complete, even if very rough, draft of The Archaeology of Foucault before Christmas didn’t happen. I’d liked the idea of having a complete text, which I could then print and leave for a while … Continue reading →

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Theodore Kisiel (1930-2021) – Daily Nous notice and obituary

Posted on January 7, 2022 by stuartelden

Daily Nous has the news of the death of Theodore Kisiel. The obituary linked is a good summary of his work. I met him a couple of times at conferences – in Denton, North Texas and Meßkirch. He was always … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated … Continue reading →

Posted in Achille Mbembe, Antonio Gramsci, Arlette Farge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Foucault Studies 31 now published (open access)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 31 now published. As ever, all articles are open access. It includes a symposium on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica and the collection of the Prison Information Group’s Intolerable, other articles and reviews. The entire issue can be downloaded … Continue reading →

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Shifting Territory and Sovereignty: People, Place and Power – interview on Radio Northern Beaches

Posted on December 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Shifting Territory and Sovereignty: People, Place and Power – interview on Radio Northern Beaches with Michael Lester, Not a great recording of my voice, but hopefully listenable. in conversation with stuart elden, professor, political theory and geography, warwick university, uk, … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France – the next major project

Posted on December 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Although the manuscript on Foucault in the 1960s is not complete, the end is in sight, and I hope to have most of it done by early 2022. That book will complete my four-volume intellectual history of Foucault’s entire career. … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Writings on Media: History of the Present – Duke University Press, November 2021; and BBC Sounds ‘Afterwords: Stuart Hall’

Posted on December 9, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Writings on Media: History of the Present, edited by Charlotte Brunsdon – Duke University Press, November 2021. This is the latest volume in the Selected Writings series. Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall’s media analyses, … Continue reading →

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