Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Macey, Roberts, Amoore, Barry, Dosse, Tel Quel Reader, TCS, JUCS

Posted on November 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Some older books ordered for the Foucault project – the Dosse has some important information on CERFI, there is a Foucault piece in The Tel Quel Reader; Andrew Barry’s Material Politics and Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility sent by … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fifth update

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there … Continue reading →

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Campbell and Sitze, Biopolitics: A Reader – introduction available online

Posted on November 24, 2013 by stuartelden

This looks a useful resource – Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, Biopolitics; A Reader. The introduction is available online here. This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social … Continue reading →

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A short previously untranslated comment by Foucault on religion, witches and madness – and the need for a structuralist study

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Update August 2026: Material from this post has been used in a longer discussion, The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. In a post earlier this week I discussed a text of Foucault’s from 1969 on … Continue reading →

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Philippe Artières, Intolérable – Groupe d’information sur les prisons

Posted on November 21, 2013 by stuartelden

A collection of the writings of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, edited by Philippe Artières, was published earlier this year by Gallimard – full details here. I’m not sure how this text relates to an earlier collection Artières was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Médecins, Juges et Sorciers au XVIIe Siècle’ – some thoughts on dating and content

Posted on November 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Update August 2026: An updated and expanded version of this post is The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft. There is a curious text by Foucault, initially published as «Médecins, juges et sorciers au XVIIe siècle», Médecine de … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Jean-Pierre Peter – some thoughts on sources of ‘the abnormals’ and the case of Pierre Rivière

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Abnormals lecture course, Foucault refers to a veritable rogues’ gallery of murderers, cannibals and perverts. The latter term, of course, is one that he examines in terms of its historical emergence – what counts as a deviation, an … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La société punitive – some more details

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

While the date of publication for Foucault’s La société punitive has slipped yet again to 5 December 2013, there are a few more details up on amazon.fr: L’organisation d’une pénalité d’enfermement n’est pas simplement récente, elle est énigmatique. Qu’est-ce qui pénètre dans … Continue reading →

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Peter Johnson on Foucault’s heterotopia

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Peter Johnson has a review essay on Foucault’s heterotopia essay and its afterlife in the new issue of Geography Compass (requires subscription). See also the blog Heterotopian Studies that Peter runs.

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

New book out from my Warwick colleague Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name. Great shame about the price though. Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of … Continue reading →

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