Category Archives: People

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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Books received – Kristeva, Lacan, Cahiers pour l’analyse, Benveniste

Posted on December 6, 2021 by stuartelden

All bought second-hand, including the issue of Cahiers pour l’analyse with the questions to Foucault and his reply.

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | Leave a comment

The Archaeology of Foucault update 12: archival work in Paris on drafts of The Archaeology of Knowledge and Foucault’s notebooks

Posted on November 26, 2021 by stuartelden

As the last update on this book said, I was able to make a trip to Paris over reading week. I spent most of the time at the BNF working on archival materials related to The Archaeology of Knowledge. There is a manuscript on philosophical … Continue reading →

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Books received – Benveniste, Althusser, Eliade, Heidegger, Nail, Derrida, Miller, Dumézil

Posted on November 24, 2021 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but also Thomas Nail, Theory of the Object and Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity, both sent by the publishers, and the most recent of Derrida’s seminars and Heidegger’s notebooks.

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade | 1 Comment