Category Archives: People

Books received – Benveniste, Dumézil, Merleau-Ponty, Piel (and a note on the political controversy around Dumézil)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by stuartelden

A pile of second-hand books, all for the Foucault work and related projects. In particular I’m writing a piece on Foucault and Dumézil, which is mainly about their understandings of sovereignty. In that piece, which I think will largely focus … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett, Sexuality and Solitude – London Review of Books, 1981 (open access)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by stuartelden

As part of their ‘Diverted Traffic’ series, the London Review of Books has made Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett, ‘Sexuality and Solitude‘ from 1981 open access. Reprints of this piece – Dits et écrits or Essential Works, for example, tend to omit Sennett’s … Continue reading →

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Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Radical – Historical Materialism series, Brill 2019; Haymarket November 2020

Posted on June 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Radical – hardback Brill 2019; paperback Haymarket November 2020 Good to see news of the forthcoming paperback publication of this major study. Translated by Gregor Benton. With an Introduction by Harrison Fluss. Perhaps no philosopher … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nail, Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism – Oxford UP, August 2020

Posted on May 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail, Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism – Oxford University Press, August 2020 More details and discount codes at Thomas Nail’s blog. Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the … Continue reading →

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Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Michel Foucault au Brésil: Présence, effets, résonances – Harmattan, 2020

Posted on May 21, 2020 by stuartelden

Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Michel Foucault au Brésil: Présence, effets, résonances – Harmattan, 2020 This is a translation of a Portguese study which I’ve mentioned here before – Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias (Lamparina 2016). Thanks … Continue reading →

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Nina Power and Justin Murphy, Introduction to Bataille – video beginning an online course

Posted on May 21, 2020 by stuartelden

Nina Power and Justin Murphy, Introduction to Bataille – video beginning an online course. More details on the course here – thanks to Jeremy Crampton for the links.

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Michael Wood and Adam Shatz, The Theory Truce, LRB conversations (podcast)

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Michael Wood and Adam Shatz, The Theory Truce, LRB conversations (podcast) Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today. The conversation marks the publication of the eighth volume … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Anna Krakus and Cristina Vatulescu, “Foucault in Poland: A Secret Archive”, Diacritics, 2020 (open access at present)

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Anna Krakus and Cristina Vatulescu, “Foucault in Poland: A Secret Archive“, Diacritics, Vol 47 No 2, 2020. It seems to be open access at present. It’s a great piece on an important year in Foucault’s life – I was lucky … Continue reading →

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, Dumézil, Arboleda, Khalili, Patron

Posted on May 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Second-hand books by Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Dumézil; Martin Arboleda, Planetary Mine and Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade from the Verso sale; and Sylvie Patron, Critique 1946-1996.

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Faut-il brûler… Sade, Dumézil, Heidegger, Kafka – a question on the use of a trope [updated]

Posted on May 18, 2020 by stuartelden

I had previously thought that the use of the expression ‘Faut-il brûler… ?’ – ‘must we burn.. ?’ someone or something was due to Simone de Beauvoir. Her text Faut-il brûler Sade? first appeared in Les temps modernes in 1951 and 1952, and … Continue reading →

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