Category Archives: Michel Foucault

The Early Foucault Update 13: Writing during Termtime

Posted on October 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Even though it is now well into term, with all the things that entails, I have been able to make small bits of progress on The Early Foucault manuscript. I’ve said before how I try to write for two hours in … Continue reading →

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Sawyer & Steinmetz-Jenkins (eds.), Foucault, Neoliberalism and Beyond – forthcoming in 2018

Posted on October 16, 2017 by stuartelden

Stephen W. Sawyer & Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (eds.), Foucault, Neoliberalism and Beyond – forthcoming in 2018 from Rowman & Littlefield International. Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press. A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with … Continue reading →

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Carceral Notebooks 13 – Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Carceral Notebooks 13 – Foucault and the Politics of Resistance in Brazil – forthcoming in 2018 Edited by Marcelo Hoffman, this looks fascinating. Foucault made several visits to Brazil and gave some important lectures there. This issue looks to provide some important historical and … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 12: A writing/cycling retreat and some time in London’s libraries

Posted on September 29, 2017 by stuartelden

As I said at the end of the last update on this book project, after the week in the Paris archives I took a week away on a kind of writing/cycling retreat. It started as the idea of a holiday, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert on the Foucault-Sartre relation – a 1990 letter

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

This was not a source I knew about before: Daniel Defert, “Lettre à Claude Lanzmann”, Les Temps Modernes, No 531-533, Vol 2, 1990,  pp. 1201-1206. It’s a short piece in a massive 1400 page collection devoted to Sartre, ten years after … Continue reading →

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Genealogy and Political Theory, 29 September 2017, Amsterdam

Posted on September 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Workshop: Genealogy and Political Theory, 29 September 2017, 10.00 hrs. – 17.00 hrs. Campus Roeterseiland, building J/K, room B22 (Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam) In recent years, there has been a proliferation of works of and on genealogy by political theorists and historians … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s acid trip in Death Valley: Interview with Simeon Wade with great archival photos (updated)

Posted on September 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Updated 14 November 2017: I’ve just heard that Simeon Wade died in October, making this interview even more important. There is a brief obituary here. My condolences to Wade’s family. Boom California has just published an interview with Simeon Wade, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Punitive Society and my two Foucault books reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton

Posted on September 12, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault’s The Punitive Society lecture course and my Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton. It’s a long, thoughtful and generous review. As well as saying many insightful things about the books reviewed, … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 11: Working in the Canguilhem archive at the École normale supérieure and at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Posted on September 8, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been in Paris again for a few days, this time mainly to work at the Canguilhem archive at the Centre d’Archives de Philosophie, d’Histoire et d’Édition des Sciences (CAPHÉS) at the École normale supérieure. The collection comprises multiple boxes … Continue reading →

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