Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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

Infamous Lives

Posted on February 6, 2011 by stuartelden

In 1977, shortly after the first volume of The History of Sexuality came out, Foucault published an essay entitled ‘The Lives of Infamous Men’. It was supposed to be the introduction to a book, or series of books, but it … Continue reading →

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Prevent and Tame – open access book

Posted on February 2, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just been told by one of the editors of a book that is available as an open-access pdf. Entitled Prevent and Tame: Protest under (Self)Control, it’s a collection of essays on social movements, power and resistance, and opposition. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Heterotopias and the Body

Posted on January 29, 2011 by stuartelden

A few years ago two radio addresses by Foucault on heterotopias were made available on a cd entitled ‘Utopies et hétérotopies’. In 2009 they were transcribed and published as a little book in French called ‘Le Corps Utopique – Les … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Politics, Security and War in paperback

Posted on January 28, 2011 by stuartelden

Michael Dillon and Andrew Neal (eds.), Foucault on Politics, Security and War, which was previously only available in hardback, is now available in paperback. Details here. I have a chapter in this on the collaborative projects Foucault was involved in … Continue reading →

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Cahier Foucault

Posted on January 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Just received this invitation. Looks like the book being launched (almost no details there yet) might be interesting.

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Next year’s teaching

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was largely spent on administrative things at Durham. It feels very early to be planning teaching for the 2011/12 academic year, down to which lectures in which weeks and trying to ensure teaching doesn’t clash with the 2012 Association … Continue reading →

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Badiou interviews Foucault

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to Sean at Te Ipu Pakore for the link – a very young Badiou, and a fairly young Foucault (with hair). It’s in French, but if you click ‘cc’ you can get English subtitles.

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Speculative Medievalisms

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I spent yesterday at the Speculative Medievalisms workshop at King’s College, London. I’d left it late to reserve a place, not knowing if I could make it, and it was full. But fortunately a space opened up for me. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Graham Harman, Medieval Studies, Michel Foucault, Quentin Meillassoux | 2 Comments