Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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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William Walters, Governmentality

Posted on June 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Just out with Routledge, a short book entitled Governmentality: Critical Encounters. Impressive back cover endorsements from Thomas Lemke, Barry Hindess, Wendy Brown, Marieke de Goede and Grahame Thompson. It’s not quite a textbook, but I think it would work well … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Du gouvernement des vivants

Posted on June 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Amazon.fr has a page up for his 1979-80 course, due in October 2012. I can’t find a publisher page. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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The Space of the World

Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

A la limite, le problème qui se pose c’est celui des rapports de la pensée à la culture : comment se fait-il que la pensée ait un lieu dans l’espace du monde, qu’elle y ait comme une origine, et qu’elle … Continue reading →

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Foucault archive as a ‘National Treasure’

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog has been really helpful for updates on the archival status of Foucault’s papers – notes, lecture drafts, manuscripts, etc. Les aveux de la chair is in there. See these two recent pieces she has linked … Continue reading →

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More downloads

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

It’s been a while since I put a few papers up online. Here are five more – Elden, S. Reassessing Kant’s Geography. Journal of Historical Geography. 2009;35:3-25. Elden, S. Taking the measure of the Beiträge: Heidegger, National Socialism and the … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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