Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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

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 →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Speaking Against Number | 1 Comment

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.

Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Georges Canguilhem, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Conferences, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Politics, Publishing, Society and Space, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Universities | Leave a comment