Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault for Architects

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Gordana Fontana-Giusti’s Foucault for Architects is now out (via Heterotopian Studies). From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture … Continue reading →

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The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

Ian Hacking in Northumbria

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

As a break from marking and catching up on journal work and email, I headed up the A1 to Newcastle to hear Ian Hacking speak at the University of Northumbria. I really like his early books The Emergence of Probability … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Ian Hacking, Michel Foucault, Quentin Skinnner | 1 Comment

Foucault-Chomsky debate – in full, with subtitles

Posted on May 14, 2013 by stuartelden

You may need to turn the captions on to see the subtitles. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis and Agostino Mantegna for sending me the link.

Posted in Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Books, Michel Foucault, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Writing | 2 Comments

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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