Category Archives: Michel Foucault

On writing books

Posted on April 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three books simultaneously.  He suggests that … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore, The Politics of Possibility

Posted on April 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My friend and Durham colleague Louise Amoore’s forthcoming book, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, now has a page up at Duke University Press site. It looks great: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of “low probability, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Louise Amoore, Michel Foucault, Politics, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Posted on April 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Now listed on the Cambridge University Press website though not out until January 2014 – The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. This is an expensive reference work – I wrote the entry on ‘space’, which was about 2,600 … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality – e-book

Posted on April 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality … Continue reading →

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Foucault books received

Posted on March 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Two new books – the Blackwell A Companion to Foucault, and the new collection La grande étrangère. I’ll be reviewing the Companion for Cultural Geographies. It looks really good including a translation of Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronology’ from Dits et écrits … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s History of Sexuality – an updated table

Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a … Continue reading →

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Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden
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Foucault’s La grande étrangère – previously unpublished texts on literature

Posted on March 24, 2013 by stuartelden

A collection of Foucault’s writings on literature – La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature – has recently been published in France. It seems the ‘no posthumous publications’ injunction is well and truly abandoned. This volume includes pieces on Sade, … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Robert Castel, cinquante ans de pugnacité sociologique Jean-François Laé 13 mars 2013 Site Mediapart Directeur d’études à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Robert Castel, né à Brest en 1933, est mort à…

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