Category Archives: People

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, March 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, translated by Andrew Brown, March 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 – University of Chicago Press, October 2021

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 – University of Chicago Press, October 2021, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, English edition established by Daniel Louis Wyche A collection of Foucault’s lectures that … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Inquiries, Vol 9 No 1, 2021 – special section on Ian Hacking

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Philosophical Inquiries, Vol 9 No 1, 2021 – special section on Ian Hacking Introduction open access, other papers require subscription Introduction. Ian Hacking and the Historical Reason of the Sciences Matteo Vagelli, Marica Setaro115-120 Naturalism, pragmatism and historical epistemology David … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism, Duke University Press, 2021 (open access introduction by Gregor McLennan)

Posted on March 2, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Marxism, Duke University Press, 2021 – the introduction by Gregor McLennan is open access here Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies … Continue reading →

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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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