Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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Stockerblog on Foucault’s Punitive Society II

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Stockerblog continues the reading of Foucault’s  La société punitive – here (part one here).

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society I

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Last month EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil Paris published Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the 1972-73 academic session, in fact they all date from 1973. The edition has been prepared by Bernard Harcourt under the direction…

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Foucault – ‘Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual’ 1980 interview online

Posted on January 6, 2014 by stuartelden

The Foucault interview entitled ‘Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual’ was conducted on 3 November 1980, and first published in History of the Present 4 (Spring 1988), 1-2, 11-13, although some excerpts appeared in the Berkeley student newspaper in 1980. Because it … Continue reading →

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Caesar Must Die – trailer and brief comments

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire) is a very powerful piece of cinema, now on dvd release, showing the rehearsals for a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The performers are all inmates of a high-security prison in Rome, and while they do … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s ‘About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual’ lecture in Toronto in 1977 – three minor questions

Posted on January 2, 2014 by stuartelden

In 1977 Foucault gave a lecture in Toronto entitled ‘About the Concept of the ‘Dangerous Individual’ in 19th Century Legal Psychiatry’. It was published first in English in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol 1 No 1, pp, 1-18. It … Continue reading →

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of the books I’m looking forward to this year include Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (edited by Łukasz Stanek and previously unpublished in any language); Neil Brenner’s epic edited collection Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization; Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st … Continue reading →

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The twenty-five most important academic books to me from 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Not ordered, not comprehensive, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten some – and of course there are those I’ve not yet read or am unaware of… These are all academic books published in 2013, not drawn from all the books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, David Harvey, Grégoire Chamayou, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, John Protevi, Karl Marx, Louise Amoore, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Universities, urban/urbanisation | 24 Comments

25 research talks in 2013 – with links to audio versions

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

The talk in Halifax at ArcticNet was the 25th research talk in a really busy year. (Links in what follows are to audio recordings, where available). I gave talks on the Shakespearean territories project at the University of York, Aberystwyth University, Memorial University of Newfoundland … Continue reading →

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Four new Foucault books

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
      In addition to the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (mentioned in my previous post, and which I should add has no less than 117 entries!), you may like to know of a few other…

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