Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault on the disciplinary society

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Just an audio recording, but Foucault on Discipline and Punish and what he was showing in that book – in English. I played the first five minutes to my students today to help explain the relation between the prison and … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 12

Posted on October 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 12 has now been published. You can find the table of contents here. There is a theme section on race, some papers on neoliberalism, lots of reviews. There is also a translation of a revealing interview with Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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David Macey

Posted on October 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Some sad news. David Macey, author of the best biography of Foucault, translator of Society Must Be Defended and author of Lacan in Contexts, among other works, has died. The Verso blog has the news and more details. he was … Continue reading →

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Wanted: audiotapes of Foucault’s 1973 lectures

Posted on October 10, 2011 by stuartelden

reposted from Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog: The French publishing houses, Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official edition of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, are seeking copies of any cassette tape recordings that might have … Continue reading →

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Shapiro on Foucault

Posted on September 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Recording of an interview with Stephen Shapiro – co-author of new book How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish – is available here. Interesting discussion of what Foucault is doing, and links to contemporary events and questions. The discussion of higher … Continue reading →

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German Philosophy and Geography

Posted on September 27, 2011 by stuartelden

This the session I am organising at the New York AAG (24-28 Feb 2012). The impact of philosophers on geography, in recent years, has largely been from the French tradition—Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou and others. There are exceptions, of course, … Continue reading →

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Camus, ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Eduardo Mendieta suggests that Albert Camus’s ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’ is worth another look. Of course the French debate happened some time ago, but not that long ago – one of the things Foucault did when involved with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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Interview with Ladelle McWhorter at New APPS

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting interview conducted by John Protevi here. McWhorter is best known – to me at least – for her book Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization; but has a more recent book out entitled Racism and Sexual … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Meillassoux

Posted on September 21, 2011 by stuartelden

After a hugely frustrating day on teaching bureaucracy (assessment proformas, reading lists, online teaching sites, etc.) amazon.fr sends me an email saying they’ve just sent my copies of Quentin Meillassoux, Le nombre et la sirène (on Mallarmé, released today) and Foucault … Continue reading →

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Berkeley and Tucson

Posted on September 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Now back in the UK. Both visits were a lot of fun, and it was great to visit Berkeley for the first time – a lovely campus and great walks in the hills behind it – and Tucson again for … Continue reading →

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