Category Archives: Theory, Culture and Society

Theory, Culture & Society ‘Summer School’, 11-16 September 2023, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Posted on May 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture & Society ‘Summer School’, 11-16 September 2023, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

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Books received – Sevilla-Buitrago, Saberi, TCS, Polity, Gaston,

Posted on September 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Two excellent books I read in manuscript – Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning and Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto, the new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Richard Polt, … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, “Literature and Madness: Madness in the Baroque Theatre and the Theatre of Artaud”, Theory, Culture and Society (requires subscription)

Posted on October 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, “Literature and Madness: Madness in the Baroque Theatre and the Theatre of Artaud”, Theory, Culture and Society (requires subscription) A translation of a piece by Foucault, online first in Theory, Culture and Society – part of the special issue on … Continue reading →

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Alison Downham Moore and Stuart Elden, review essay on ‘Foucault’s 1960s lectures on sexuality’ (open access)

Posted on June 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Alison Downham Moore and Stuart Elden, review essay on ‘Foucault’s 1960s lectures on sexuality‘, Theory, Culture & Society (open access) This is part of the special issue on ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’, which I’m co-editing with Orazio Irrera … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hadot, Nail, TCS on Barthes, Eco, Ewald, Billé

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books waiting for me in the office – The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Nail, Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion, the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Neutral Life/Late Barthes, Umberto Eco, The Role of the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Althusser, Nicolaysen, Heidegger, Foucault, TCS, Lefebvre, Scammell, Avellaneda and Vega

Posted on January 2, 2020 by stuartelden

A mixed pile of books to come back to in the office. They include – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’union de l’âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson – a course Foucault attended Jacques Lacan, My Teaching Two recent translations of … Continue reading →

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Draft programme for the Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference

Posted on May 20, 2019 by stuartelden

The draft programme for the Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience – Association for Philosophy and Literature conference is available here. I’ll be giving a plenary lecture on ‘Foucault, Shakespeare and the Oath’ on the Thursday Friday afternoon, and there … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Couze Venn

Posted on March 16, 2019 by stuartelden

I was very sorry to hear the news of the death of Couze Venn, earlier this week. Couze was a Professor at Goldsmiths University, and managing editor of Theory, Culture & Society. I first met Couze at a Foucault conference at … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Medien, ‘Palestine in Deleuze’ – Theory, Culture & Society, online first

Posted on January 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Kathryn Medien, ‘Palestine in Deleuze‘ – Theory, Culture & Society, online first (requires subscription) In the late 1970s and early 1980s French philosopher Gilles Deleuze authored a series of articles in which he reflected on the formation of the state … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hollier, Bataille, Monk, Coleman & Agnew, Wahl

Posted on November 13, 2018 by stuartelden

Denis Hollier, Le Collège de Sociologie; Georges Bataille, Choix de Lettres, 1917-1962; the first volume of Ray Monk’s life of Bertrand Russell, the new Theory, Culture & Society, the Handbook on the Geographies of Power, edited by Mat Coleman and … Continue reading →

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