Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Posted on May 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
For full details and the conference poster please visit the Conference website Colloque international MICHEL FOUCAULT DU GOUVERNEMENT DES VIVANTS AU COURAGE DE LA VÉRITÉ Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne    21-22 juin 2012…

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Philip Manow, In the King’s Shadow

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

I picked up this 2010 book from Polity as part of the recompense for a reader report. I’m glad I did – it’s a very interesting examination of the political body after the end of the medieval King’s Two Bodies … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Chicago Press finally have a page up for the translation of Foucault’s 1981 lectures at Louvain – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. They are due out in January 2013. Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies issue 13

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

A Special Issue on Foucault and Accounting guest edited by Andrea Mennicken & Peter Miller Issue 13 also includes original articles on parrhesia, classical scholarship and Foucault’s ‘German moment’ as well as a review essay on Foucault’s 1970-1971 course on … Continue reading →

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Between Deleuze and Foucault

Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Website for a reallly interesting project – Between Deleuze and Foucault. Links to details of a conference, forthcoming book, forthcoming special issue of Foucault Studies, and the transcripts and audio of Deleuze’s 1985-1986 course on Foucault.

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Improper Life – Timothy Campbell

Posted on April 23, 2012 by stuartelden

 Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben – recently out with University of Minnesota Press. The book discusses, between Heidegger and Agamben, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, and Peter Sloterdijk. Campbell is one of the translators of Esposito, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Roberto Esposito | Leave a comment

Secure the Volume – Kentucky video

Posted on April 17, 2012 by stuartelden

The video of my presentation at the University of Kentucky. [Update: the higher resolution version has replaced the earlier one] The slides are somewhat blurred and the audience questions quiet, but may be of interest.

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Eyal Weizman, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory | 13 Comments

Lego Social Theory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

More Lego Social Theory – here. Thanks to Ben R for the link – Anthony Giddens, Angela McRobbie and Stuart Hall. The original figures of Foucault, Butler, Giddens and McRobbie are here.

Posted in Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Rereading novels

Posted on April 9, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Travel, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 10 Comments

Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power

Posted on March 24, 2012 by stuartelden

For the past several days I’ve been writing – and almost as importantly, working with the images for – my lecture for Kentucky. At the moment it looks like it will cover… Area, Volume, Territory, Boundedness, the Volumetric, Political Technology, … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Derek Gregory, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Politics, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Space of the World | 5 Comments