Category Archives: Michel Foucault

‘From Dynastics to Genealogy’, my contribution to Abolition Democracy 13/13, Beyond the Punitive Society

Posted on January 4, 2021 by stuartelden

On 7 January 2021 I’ll be part of a panel discussion for the Abolition Democracy 13/13 series, hosted by Bernard E. Harcourt at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and co-organised with Daniele Lorenzini of The Centre for Research … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Boundaries, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Louis Althusser, Louise Amoore, Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot, Territory | 7 Comments

Discussion of The Early Foucault (@politybooks, 2021) on the Hermitix podcast

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

On the Hermitix podcast (stream or download) I discuss The Early Foucault, forthcoming with Polity in 2021. Also on Youtube. Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at University of Warwick. He is the author of multiple books … Continue reading →

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Journal of the History of Ideas blog – The Year in Review: Best of 2020

Posted on December 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Journal of the History of Ideas blog – The Year in Review: Best of 2020 They are kind enough to include my two-part interview on Foucault with Jonas Knatz and Anne Schult Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas … Continue reading →

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

Foucault’s Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2020 by stuartelden

In a fascinating interview about Foucault, ‘The Materiality of a Working Life‘ (open access; original French), Daniel Defert talks about his daily routines, and how these were similar year round: No no, weekends didn’t exist! We would go to see … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault Update 4: The term from hell, Foucault in Brazil and Tunisia, and the problems of archival research in a pandemic

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, teaching, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Universities | 2 Comments

Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021

Posted on December 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021 This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, urban/urbanisation | 2 Comments

Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker’ – video abstract and open access article

Posted on December 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘ – The video abstract for this open access article is now available: Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Michel Foucault, teaching, The Archaeology of Foucault | Leave a comment

It was fifty years ago today… Michel Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 2 December 1970

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it … Continue reading →

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