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The Archaeology of Foucault Update 4: The term from hell, Foucault in Brazil and Tunisia, and the problems of archival research in a pandemic

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence … Continue reading →

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Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020 Georges Canguilhem af­firmait que la notion de milieu s’était constituée « comme catégorie de la pensée contemporaine ». En effet, depuis que la biologie de … Continue reading →

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Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021

Posted on December 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021 This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s … Continue reading →

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Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War – videos of 11 December 2020 conference

Posted on December 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Online Conference Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War (edited) A selection of the papers and discussions from the 11/12/2020 online conference on Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War / Territoires d’histoire, territoires littéraires en guerre (Université … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker’ – video abstract and open access article

Posted on December 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘ – The video abstract for this open access article is now available: Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The … Continue reading →

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Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 (and Revising Gramsci’s Notebooks now in paper)

Posted on December 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci’s thought. Building on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

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It was fifty years ago today… Michel Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 2 December 1970

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it … Continue reading →

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Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021

Posted on November 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021 Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan’s work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment.  Beistegui … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Posted on November 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021 Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt, translated by Graham Burchell. Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published … Continue reading →

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