Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2024 by stuartelden

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Aurel Stein, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Stefanos Geroulanos, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Travel, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Claude Lévi-Strauss, David Harvey, Georges Bataille, Karl Marx, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | 7 Comments

Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

Posted on December 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

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Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work

Posted on December 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work.

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | Leave a comment

Books received – Antoniol, Foucault, Benveniste, Woodard

Posted on December 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt; Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures, edited by John Rajchman; and second-hand copies of Benveniste’s Problems in General Linguistics, Autour d’Émile Benveniste and Roger Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages … Continue reading →

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Richard Lynch and Daniele Lorenzini, Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation – newly updated (2023)

Posted on December 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Lynch’s very useful Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation has been newly updated by Daniele Lorenzini. This is a continual work in progress, and updates and corrections should be sent to Daniele for inclusion in future versions (details … Continue reading →

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Foucault News Info wanted: What fountain pen did Foucault write with?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

At Foucault News, Clare O’Farrell asks for information – What fountain pen did Foucault write with? Editor: I have recently developed an interest in fountain pens and was wondering if anybody knew what brand of fountain pen Foucault used? He may have used a … Continue reading →

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The 13/13 Essays – material linked to the seminars of The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

For several years Bernard Harcourt and colleagues at The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought have been running a series of 13/13 seminars. The seminars usually have short essays by participants available online, and now they are being collected on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernard E. Harcourt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

Books received – Mauss, Ginzburg, Amin, Lefebvre, Foucault, Jackson, Danielsson

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

A mix of recently bought books along with Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance, sent by Polity, and the long-awaited hardback of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography. I think I’ve mentioned all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ash Amin, Carlo Ginzburg, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments