Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault Doctoral Workshop – call for papers

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Philippe Bonditti: Call for papers (in English and French) for the Foucault Doctoral Workshop organized by the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault (Paris). It will take place next January 15th and 16th 2014 at IMEC (Abbaye d’Ardenne, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Althusser project; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault and Power; Michael Dear’s Why Walls Won’t Work; and the latest Society and Space.

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Foucault, On the Government of the Living – forthcoming in 2014

Posted on October 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Palgrave now have a page for Foucault’s 1979-80 lecture course On the Government of the Living. Thanks to Harvey Shoolman for the alert. [update – publication has slipped from March to September 2014]

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fourth update

Posted on October 25, 2013 by stuartelden

It has been a long time since the third update on the book I’m writing entitled Foucault’s Last Decade, under contract with Polity Press. Since that last update I’ve moved house and started a new job – both of which have … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power – soon to be published

Posted on October 24, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve just heard from Bloomsbury that advance copies of Marcelo Hoffman’s really important study Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power are now being sent out – I wrote one of the endorsements. Highly recommended. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Miles Davis, Ghanaian sunshine…

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden
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Foucault, La société punitive – publication slips to late November

Posted on October 21, 2013 by stuartelden

If, like me, you are eagerly awaiting Foucault’s La société punitive, you’ll be disappointed to hear that the publication date has slipped again. It is on amazon.fr and various other sites with a date of 28 November [update 5 December], but … Continue reading →

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The New Althusser – a possible TCS theme?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the ideas floated at yesterday’s Theory, Culture and Society board meeting was a theme issue on what might be called ‘the new Althusser’. Since his death, many previously unpublished writings have been published in France, with English translations following. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1972 lecture at Minnesota – summary now available

Posted on October 10, 2013 by stuartelden

In a previous post, I discussed the summary of a 1972 lecture Foucault gave in Minneapolis, entitled “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”. As far as I am aware the text of the lecture remains in Foucault’s own papers and was … Continue reading →

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Books received – Indiana University press sale

Posted on October 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Three books by or about Heidegger, and Colin Koopman’s Genealogy as Critique.

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