Category Archives: People

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons – Zone books, March 2021

Posted on February 25, 2021 by stuartelden

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons – Zone books, March 2021 In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Race and Difference – Duke University Press, April 2021 (and open access introduction by Paul Gilroy)

Posted on February 25, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Race and Difference, edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore – Duke University Press, 2021 (and open access introduction by Paul Gilroy) In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson … Continue reading →

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‘Gilbert’ Deleuze and ‘Marcel’ Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Both published in their lifetimes…

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 5: Proofs of The Early Foucault, connected work on dynasties, Canguilhem, Dumézil and Hyppolite

Posted on February 23, 2021 by stuartelden

It’s been a while since the last update, and I’d hoped that the Christmas break, a slightly lighter teaching load in term 2 and a reading week would see me make a bit more progress on this manuscript. I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Books received – Martin, Balibar, Althusser, Lacan, Foucault, Mbembe, Benveniste

Posted on February 22, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review for Polity, along with Achille Mbembe, Out of the Dark Night from Columbia University Press, Jacques Martin’s L’individu chez Hegel, edited by Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, the translation of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh and an … Continue reading →

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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking ‘Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4’ – Shahidha Bari with Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden and Stephen Shapiro, 25 February 2021

Posted on February 19, 2021 by stuartelden

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking – ‘Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4‘ – Shahidha Bari with Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, and Stephen Shapiro, 25 February 2021, 10pm (and now available online and download here). On the day the final … Continue reading →

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Jacques Lacan, The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV, translated by Adrian Price – Polity, February 2021

Posted on February 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV, translated by Adrian Price – Polity, February 2021 ‘The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is … Continue reading →

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Stephen Houlgate, Hegel on Being – two volumes, Bloomsbury, October 2021

Posted on February 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Stephen Houlgate, Hegel on Being – two volumes, Bloomsbury, October 2021 Very expensive hardback and e-book at present, but this looks a major work. Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel’s entire logic of being. Stephen Houlgate presents the Science … Continue reading →

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‘Michel Foucault and the Social Contract’, Stuart Elden, Mark Kelly and Christopher Watkin, 13 April 2021 (online seminar)

Posted on February 16, 2021 by stuartelden

On 13 April 2021, 6pm Melbourne/9am UK, I’ll be taking part in an online discussion on ‘Michel Foucault and the Social Contract‘ with Mark Kelly and Christopher Watkin, as part of a series looking at the social contract today. Full … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Balibar, Martinet, Lévi-Strauss, Harker, Dumézil

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Books for the Foucault research, along with a few in recompense for review work for Verso, and Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine, sent by Duke University Press, and the new translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild … Continue reading →

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