Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault and ‘The Gay Science’

Posted on May 1, 2011 by stuartelden

The most recent issue of the journal Critical Inquiry has some interesting pieces on Foucault and his ‘The Gay Science’ interview. Parts of this have appeared before, but this issue contains the full, unedited version. Find the journal here, and open access versions … Continue reading →

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Radical Foucault – final CFP

Posted on April 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Radical Foucault: An International  Conference September 8th – 9th, University of East London (Docklands Campus) Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/?p=591 Following the  superb international response to our initial call for papers, we have decided to … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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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