Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Urban Geopolitics

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

At the Antipode blog, Marijn Nieuwenhuis has an interesting post on Urban Geopolitics in the wake of the London Olympics. He mentions the Territorial Support Group’s ‘Total Policing’ map I linked to a few weeks back. Marijn discusses Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton – Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity audio available

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Society and Space | 2 Comments

Foucault – Mal Faire, Dire Vrai

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has posted news of the publication of Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures – an English translation is forthcoming (details here). I won’t repost all the information you can find on the Foucault News blog (or here), which includes the … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean reviews Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, “Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’”, Theory, Culture & Society, May 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 145-158 (requires subscription; via Foucault News). A detailed review with some close discussion of the relation of … Continue reading →

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2013 publications

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

There will be three journal articles out in 2013, along with The Birth of Territory. Two of the articles are related to that book, but take arguments in different directions and link to future projects on Shakespeare and Foucault. The third links … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault – Le beau danger

Posted on July 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting short book of an interview – which breaks off incomplete – with Claude Bonnefoy from 1968. Relates to Foucault’s books of the 1960s, especially History of Madness, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things and the soon-to-be-published … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Pierre Riviere project

Posted on July 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog has just posted the abstract for a very interesting piece on Foucault’s Moi, Pierre Rivière project – Michael Sheringham, “Michel Foucault, Pierre Rivière and the Archival Imaginary“, Comparative Critical Studies 8.2–3 (2011): 235–257. Sheringham talks about … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist on Foucault

Posted on June 28, 2012 by stuartelden

The Funambulist blog has been running a sequence of posts on Foucault around the body, architecture, cartography and power. Episode 1: Michel Foucault’s Architectural Underestimation Episode 2: Do not Become Enamored of Power Episode 3: “Mon Corps, Topie Impitoyable” Episode 4: The cartography of power … Continue reading →

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Next things to do

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs, index, cover discussions, marketing questionnaires and so on to come, but … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Maladie mentale et personnalité, online

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Long out of print, Maladie mentale et personnalité was Foucault’s first book from 1954, reissued as Maladie mentale et psychologie in substantially revised form. It is freely available here.

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