Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault – The Mesh of Power

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1976 lecture ‘The Mesh of Power’ is available online in English (with a link to the French) at Viewpoint Magazine. This lecture was previously translated by Gerald Moore for the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection Jeremy Crampton … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming talks

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, The Space of the World, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

IJURR review essay on Foucault and Geography

Posted on September 1, 2012 by stuartelden

The latest issue of IJURR has a review essay on cities by Martina Löw that takes the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection that Jeremy Crampton and I edited as one of the three books under review. The … Continue reading →

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Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano

Posted on August 29, 2012 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the AAG meeting in Los Angeles next April. It will be part of the ‘Violence and Space’ sessions organised by Philippe le Billon and Simon Springer – call for papers here. I’ll also be part … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory, urban/urbanisation | 12 Comments

Some more free downloads

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading →

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Bernard Harcourt – The Illusion of Free Markets

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

I finally got round to reading Bernard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. I bought it after The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference last year when Bernard spoke. I don’t have much to say, … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

Urban Geopolitics

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

At the Antipode blog, Marijn Nieuwenhuis has an interesting post on Urban Geopolitics in the wake of the London Olympics. He mentions the Territorial Support Group’s ‘Total Policing’ map I linked to a few weeks back. Marijn discusses Foucault and … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 2 Comments

Peter Gratton – Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity audio available

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Society and Space | 2 Comments

Foucault – Mal Faire, Dire Vrai

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has posted news of the publication of Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures – an English translation is forthcoming (details here). I won’t repost all the information you can find on the Foucault News blog (or here), which includes the … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean reviews Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, “Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’”, Theory, Culture & Society, May 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 145-158 (requires subscription; via Foucault News). A detailed review with some close discussion of the relation of … Continue reading →

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