Category Archives: Publishing

Jonathan Bate on writing a biography of Ted Hughes – copyright, author estates and family members

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Bate about his writing of a biography of Ted Hughes. The issues are much wider than this particular case, and concern copyright, author estates and the role of family members. There are … Continue reading →

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Stanford Briefs – manuscripts in the humanities wanted

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have an imprint for shorter texts with a much quicker turnaround from acceptance to publication – Stanford Briefs. The imprint is across all the press’s disciplines, but I’ve been talking to senior editor Emily-Jane Cohen about the lists … Continue reading →

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Rowman & Littlefield International new series – Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political

Posted on March 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Rowman & Littlefield International have launched a new series – Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political – with an attempt to cross the division between ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ thought. Here’s the first part of the series description: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking … Continue reading →

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The remaining Foucault lecture courses – French and English publishing details

Posted on March 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Update 8 July 2014: Subjectivité et vérité and Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling have now been published; Théories et institutions pénales is forthcoming in 2015.   Only two of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses remain unpublished in French – Théories et institutions pénales (1971-72) and Subjectivité et vérité (1980-81). As … Continue reading →

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The original source for Foucault’s Pierre Rivière collaborative project

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve long known that Foucault and his colleagues discovered the case of Pierre Rivière in Annales d’hygiène publique et de médecine légale, during the seminar of his first year of his work at the Collège de France. This particular case so fascinated … Continue reading →

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Materiali Foucaultiani – a tri-lingual journal and resource site

Posted on March 18, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve known about this site for a while, but not sure I’ve posted about it before. Materiali Foucaultiani is an online, tri-lingual (Italian-French-English) journal and website concerning Foucault. As well as the journal, there is a lot of information on … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité – forthcoming in May 2014

Posted on March 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Seuil now have a page up for Foucault’s 1980-81 lecture course Subjectivité et vérité, with a publication date of May 2014. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. No great surprises in the publicity text, except perhaps for the explicit link … Continue reading →

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Semiotext(e) – Whitney publications

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Semiotexte has produced twenty-eight pamphlets as part of its contribution to the Whitney Biennial by philosophers, writers and critics associated with the press. The series includes new, commissioned works by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Veronica Gonzalez-Peña, Sergio Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Gary Indiana, John … Continue reading →

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Books received (3 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Quentin Meillassoux, Métaphysique et fiction des mondes hors-science Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi (French critical edition of 1980 lectures long available in English) Grégoire Chamayou, Les Corps vils. Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe siècle et XIXe siècle – a reissue of his first … Continue reading →

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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