Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault Studies 11

Posted on April 20, 2011 by stuartelden

New issue of Foucault Studies out – largely a theme issue on Foucault and Pragmatism, including papers by Paul Rabinow and Todd May.

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The Foucault Effect 1991-2011

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at Foucault News, Clare has the details of a very interesting conference coming up in London. THE FOUCAULT EFFECT 1991-2011 A Conference at Birkbeck, University of London: Date: Friday 3 – Saturday 4 June 2011 Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre, … Continue reading →

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Fossils talk, and revised abstract

Posted on March 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Four weeks ago I posted the abstract of the talk I will be giving tomorrow at the Humanities Research Centre here at ANU. That abstract was written at time when I had a vague sense of what I was going … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Fossils, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, The Space of the World | 1 Comment

Foucault’s Order of Things diagram

Posted on March 23, 2011 by stuartelden

This is the diagram from Foucault’s The Order of Things. I couldn’t find it online, and wanted to use it in a talk. I’ve scanned it; cleaned it up a bit; and cut it in half so it is easier to … Continue reading →

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Roundup

Posted on March 22, 2011 by stuartelden

Back in Canberra after a great few days in Tasmania. Will it be five years before I’m there again? Anyway, a post with a bunch of links… More stuff on blogs, here, here and here. More on the ‘Animal, Vegetable, … Continue reading →

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Babich on Foucault-Nietzsche-Heidegger

Posted on March 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Babette Babich’s book chapter “A Philosophical Shock’: Foucault’s Reading of Heidegger and Nietzsche” is available open access here.

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Cahiers pour l’analyse

Posted on March 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to Nick at Speculative Heresy for the reminder to check out the Cahiers d’analyse project website. Loads of interesting material there, including the debate between the Cercle d’épistémologie and Foucault in 1968, in which Foucault discusses some of themes … Continue reading →

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Reading about fossils

Posted on March 4, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been spending the last week, as expected, reading about fossils. This has taken me through Aristotle, Georgius Agricola, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Hooke, Niels Stensen, Benoît de Maillet, Leibniz, Buffon, Voltaire, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, Kant and Charles Lyell. Some of … Continue reading →

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Reading at ANU

Posted on February 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Since I arrived here I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading, as I am at that interesting stage of a new project where you have a few ideas and begin following promising leads. Some of them, of course, turn … Continue reading →

Posted in David N. Livingstone, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, Klaus Theweleit, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, The Space of the World, Wendy Brown, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

Mal faire, dire vrai

Posted on February 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Foucault gave six lectures in Louvain in 1981 entitled “Mal faire, dire vrai”, on confession. I suspect they are close to material he used in his De Gouvernement des Vivants Collège de France course – not yet out in French. This site suggests … Continue reading →

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