Category Archives: Michel Foucault

What I’ve done so far this summer…

Posted on July 30, 2011 by stuartelden

I posted my list of things to do this summer some weeks ago. I don’t feel I’ve been at my most productive by a long way, due to a whole range of things, but… The two introductions to the Sage … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stuartelden

From Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault site – reposted with commentary at her Refracted Input blog: Does there exist a pleasure in writing? I don’t know. One thing is certain, that there is, I think, a very strong obligation to write. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Schmitt, Foucault, war

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Carl Schmitt, Writings on War is a new collection that gathers up some interesting, and politically appalling, pieces. Hopefully this will mean that The Nomos of the Earth is, in future, read in a wider political, and geopolitical context. By … Continue reading →

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Reactions to the Berfrois review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton offers some thoughts in response to my review of Foucault’s 1970-71 course here. Interesting ideas about how the claims could be read as a critique of the crisis of legitimation argument in modernity. I think this might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton, Publishing | 2 Comments

Foucault lectures

Posted on July 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Devin Shaw kindly links to my Berfrois review of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. He mentions that I don’t elaborate on a point I make about the provenance of the material – “Unlike the other courses published to date, this … Continue reading →

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Review of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

Posted on July 20, 2011 by stuartelden

My review of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir is available here.

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Berkeley and Arizona lectures on territory

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The flight for my Berkeley and University of Arizona lectures in September is now booked. The lectures will be under the title ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – which some may spot is a tribute to the piece Ian … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Michel Foucault, The Birth of Territory, Travel | 2 Comments

Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”

Posted on July 5, 2011 by stuartelden

In working on my lecture on Foucault’s 1970-71 course I have been rereading some related texts, including the “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” essay. I know this text well, as I’ve taught it and it was a fundamental text in my PhD … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Mapping the Present, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

Foucault’s History of Sexuality

Posted on July 5, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been planning another book on Foucault for many years. The idea is to write a history of the ‘History of Sexuality’ – tracing the emergence of the project, the original plan, and the various revisions before it was left … Continue reading →

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Reading Foucault in Nigeria

Posted on June 29, 2011 by stuartelden

The key work I did in Nigeria, aside from editing Society and Space, was on Foucault. This is for two, interrelated, projects. The first is to to write a chapter for the book coming out of The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault, Quentin Skinnner, Reinhart Koselleck, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments