Category Archives: Publishing

Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone – A Verso instant book

Posted on February 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone – A Verso instant book, available online at a reduced price. On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance – not just for Greece … Continue reading →

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

Posted on February 16, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading →

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Théories et Institutions Penales – Foucault’s 1971-72 course available to pre-order on Amazon.fr

Posted on February 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1971-72 lecture course, Théories et Institutions Pénales – the last to be published – is available to pre-order on Amazon.fr. Seuil does not have it listed on their site yet. It is again edited by Bernard Harcourt – who did the … Continue reading →

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Foucault, “The Politics of [Soviet] Crime” – a request for help from Italian readers

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

[update: I have a copy of the Italian text, but have also now found the full and unpublished French original transcript at IMEC. I don’t need the text mentioned below any longer, but have kept the post up as the … Continue reading →

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes – ‘Reliable referees: a rare commodity’ at New APPS

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

At New APPS Catarina Dutilh Novaes reflects on a problem – ‘Reliable referees: a rare commodity‘. With this post, I want to bring up for discussion what I think is one of the main issues with the peer-reviewing system… namely the … Continue reading →

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Books on Lefebvre in English – why are six of ten with Routledge?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

By my count, there are ten eleven books on Henri Lefebvre in English. Six of these are with Routledge – Shields, Merrifield, Goonewardena et. al., Butler, Middleton and Coleman – and four five with other publishers – Burkhard, Elden, Fraser, Stanek [and Stanek et. al.]. … Continue reading →

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“Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis

Posted on January 28, 2015 by stuartelden

“Europe After The Minotaur” – free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, available from Zed books. You need to register, but  it’s a quick process. The book contains excerpts from his longer book The Global Minotaur. Europe After the … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 18

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

The last major task of the first draft was a discussion of the final two Paris lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth. The first of these courses provides the basis for the October-November … Continue reading →

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Mary Beard on ‘How to Write’

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

in her TLS column, classicist Mary Beard discusses ‘How to write‘. Other than the updates on the Foucault book, I’ve not written much about writing recently on this site. But I have done in the past – there is a … Continue reading →

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A request for help – some difficult-to-find texts by Michel Foucault

Posted on January 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I wonder if anyone reading can help locate copies of these texts by, or about, Foucault. Texts crossed out are ones that I have been sent copies of already. Michel Foucault, “Photogenic painting”, translated by Pierre A. Walker, Critical texts, … Continue reading →

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