Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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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Orders of translation

Posted on February 23, 2011 by stuartelden

In his comments on the Sloterdijk review, Peter Gratton ends by suggesting: It might have done Sloterdijk a favor to publish this work after the forthcoming English translations of the three volumes of Spheres. In this he’s absolutely right. To … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton, Peter Sloterdijk, Publishing | 3 Comments

History of the Present

Posted on February 15, 2011 by stuartelden

A new journal launched – details here. Thanks to Steve Legg for the link. History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor.  Its aim is twofold:  to create a space in which scholars can … Continue reading →

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Eribon and Veyne on Foucault’s Infamous Lives

Posted on February 10, 2011 by stuartelden

This was posted in comments  to an earlier post, by Nicolae, but I’m reposting here so it gets more widely noticed. It’s a discussion between Didier Eribon and Paul Veyne on the ‘infamous lives’ project. Thanks Nicolae.

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Foucault 1970-71 course out

Posted on February 10, 2011 by stuartelden

Both Clare and Jeremy have the news that Foucault’s 1970-71 course, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, is officially released. My copy is on its way, but I’ll be gone before it arrives. I said a little about this course here, … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory introduction

Posted on February 7, 2011 by stuartelden

I don’t like writing introductions, and The Birth of Territory was definitely no exception. I’d been struggling with working out how to shape this, but now have what I think is a good working version. One of the things I … Continue reading →

Posted in J.G.A. Pocock, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michel Foucault, Quentin Skinnner, Reinhart Koselleck, The Birth of Territory | Leave a comment

Paul Mason on the recent global unrest

Posted on February 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Newsnight’s Paul Mason offers some generalisations on the recent global unrest here. He stresses the importance of social media, the decline of ideologies, the role of women, the importance of memes, and so on. Mentions Foucault, Chomsky, Hardt and Negri, … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Hardt, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Politics, teaching, Territory | Leave a comment