Category Archives: Michel Foucault

CFP: Third Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop, Eugene, OR, 9-11 May 2019

Posted on June 25, 2018 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: Third Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop University of Oregon in Eugene, OR May 9–11, 2019 The Critical Genealogies Workshop provides a space of collaboration and experimentation for scholars who deploy genealogy in order to investigate problematizations of … Continue reading →

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Future work and summer plans – Shakespeare, Canguilhem, Lefebvre and back to Foucault

Posted on June 22, 2018 by stuartelden

Although the Shakespeare Territories book is coming out in a few months, I’ve been back working on Shakespeare. Initially this was for a summary article of the book’s argument for a short article for Territory, Politics, Governance, which should be … Continue reading →

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Books received – Logistical Worlds, Bachelard, Serres, Cremonesi et al, de Beistegui, Strang et al

Posted on June 21, 2018 by stuartelden

Logistical Worlds (sent by the publisher), Gaston Bachelard, The Dialectic of Duration, Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics, Laura Cremonesi et al eds, Foucault and the Making of Subjects (all recompense for review work), Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the … Continue reading →

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Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Foucault – Garrick’s Temple, Hampton, 23 June 2018

Posted on June 20, 2018 by stuartelden

A reminder of the Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Foucault – to be held at Garrick’s Temple, Hampton, on Saturday 23 June 2018. Full details here and programme here. Booking is essential (£20 registration fee). David Garrick built his Shakespeare … Continue reading →

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‘Little Stars and Galloping Steeds: Sex in Shakespeare’ – Rose Theatre Kingston, June 22, 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by stuartelden

The day before the Foucault and Shakespeare event, there is a day-long workshop at Kingston’s Rose Theatre. Little Stars and Galloping Steeds: Sex in Shakespeare – Friday June 22, 2018, Rose Theatre Kingston. It’s free, but registration is required. 9.30am: … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh – audio recording of talk at Goldsmiths, 9 May 2018

Posted on May 29, 2018 by stuartelden

I gave a talk about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair on May 9th at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths University. Full details here. The talk was based on my review essay on the book, published on the … Continue reading →

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Thomas Lemke, A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality – forthcoming with Verso in January 2019

Posted on May 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Also with Verso, the long overdue translation of Thomas Lemke, A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality – forthcoming in January 2019. Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault’s work on power and … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cook, Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West – forthcoming with Verso, October 2018

Posted on May 26, 2018 by stuartelden

Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West by Deborah Cook, forthcoming with Verso, October 2018 Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent … Continue reading →

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American Book Review theme on Critical Lives – including piece by me on Foucault

Posted on May 23, 2018 by stuartelden

A theme section of American Book Review has just been published. Edited by Robert T. Tally Jr., it includes reviews of a number of recent biographies of social theorists and philosophers – Freud, the Frankfurt School, Habermas, Schmitt, Deleuze, Barthes, Hall and … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare – symposium at Garrick’s Temple, 23 June 2018

Posted on May 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault and Shakespeare – symposium at Garrick’s Temple, 23 June 2018 David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the plays. … Continue reading →

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