Category Archives: Michel Foucault

materiali foucaultiani – first issue

Posted on March 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Italian journal materiali foucaultiani is now published. The issue has a theme section on ‘Geographies of power: space and heterotopias’. A pdf is available here; you can view it in issuu here. French and English texts are promised for the … Continue reading →

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Heidegger’s handwriting

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Came across this again (it’s mentioned in Speaking Against Number). Something very interesting in seeing the handwriting of people you’d only before read in print. With Foucault and Lefebvre I’ve seen originals in the archives; with Heidegger at the Heidegger museum … Continue reading →

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South Asian Governmentalities Workshop

Posted on March 6, 2012 by stuartelden

30th March, British Academy,  London. Organised by Stephen Legg, and featuring papers by Colin Gordon and others. Full details here.

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Anachronic Shakespeare

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon

Posted on February 23, 2012 by stuartelden

New book from Ashgate – Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon. Looks interesting, and especially for the largely Francophone contributors – shame about the prohibitive price. Clare O’Farrell wrote a preface. The intro is freely available here. (thanks to Foucault … Continue reading →

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Cambridge discussion audio

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

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Unpublished Foucault interview

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault News links to a previously unpublished interview with Foucault from 1977. Some interesting discussion of history, genealogy and archaeology; the question of strategy; politics, state, classes and state apparatuses; power, sexuality and the body… The beginning of the Présentation follows: … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Truth, Knowledge and Publishing

Posted on February 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This will to truth, like other systems of exclusion, relies on institutional support: it is both reinforced and accompanied by whole strata of practices such as pedagogy, of course, such as the book-system, publishing, libraries, such as the learned societies … Continue reading →

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Discussion with Adam Ramadan, Cambridge, 16 February 2012

Posted on February 10, 2012 by stuartelden

The talk for the 16 February 2012, 7pm, at the Cambridge University Geographical Society will be in the form of a discussion with Adam Ramadan. We will be talking about my political work on territory in Terror and Territory; the more recent historical … Continue reading →

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Five more free downloads

Posted on February 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Another five papers I have uploaded to this site Elden, S. Contingent Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Sanctity of Borders. SAIS Review of International Affairs. 2006;29:11-24. Elden, S. Dialectics and the Measure of the World. Environment and Planning A. 2008;40:2641-51. … Continue reading →

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