Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s Last Decade – third update

Posted on August 9, 2013 by stuartelden

See first and second updates for background to the book I’m writing (and the brief prospectus here). Recent progress has been slower than I’d have liked, as I’m in the middle of moving home and office. Ideally I would now … Continue reading →

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Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature

Posted on August 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Does anyone have access to Acta: Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature, a publication that on pages 22 and 23 summarises a 1972 lecture by Foucault entitled “Ceremony, Theatre, and Politics in the 17th Century”? Worldcat suggests … Continue reading →

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Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France – a Foucault query

Posted on August 7, 2013 by stuartelden

In Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronologie’/’Chronology’ in Dits et écrits/A Companion to Foucault, he makes reference to a publication entitled Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France. This is in the entry for October 1973  (p. 44/55), and Defert suggests … Continue reading →

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Foucault audio files

Posted on August 5, 2013 by stuartelden

There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the … Continue reading →

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as I know, the only partial … Continue reading →

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Books received – including Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Five interesting books. Two are older books by authors whose other work I’ve liked – Badie and Birnbaum’s The Sociology of the State and Adriana Caverero, Relating Narratives – that I got for review work. I got hold of François … Continue reading →

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Foucault in Rio 1973-74

Posted on July 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures Between 21-25 May 1973, Foucault gave five lectures in Rio de Janeiro. These were under the collective title of ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. They were published in Portuguese in 1974, in French in 1994 … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – second update

Posted on July 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Over the last week I did some further work on the timeline I mentioned in the last update. I’m finding this really useful already. In particular I used the bibliography of English translations compiled by Richard Lynch (also in A Companion … Continue reading →

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The Foucault/Habermas debate that never was

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

James Schmidt has two very interesting posts about the Foucault/Habermas ‘debate that never was’ – part one and part two. Part One includes a letter from Foucault from late 1983. Part three is promised soon.

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Two decisions in the translation of Lectures on the Will to Know

Posted on July 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Graham Burchell has provided another excellent translation of a Foucault lecture course – Lectures on the Will to Know. I worked on that course extensively in the French and have over the past few days spent a lot of time … Continue reading →

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