Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed at LSE Review of Books

Posted on August 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Syamala Roberts. In Foucault: The Birth of Power, Stuart Elden outlines how the theorisation of power was the essential tool developed within Foucault’s work and political activities … Continue reading →

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Remigiusz Ryziński discusses Foucault’s time in Poland

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Carceral Notebooks 12, Derrida, Latour, Eribon

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Two volumes of the Penguin Freud library, issue 12 of the Carceral Notebooks; the most recently published Derrida seminar, Théorie et pratique; Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia and a second-hand copy of Didier Eribon’s Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. The Latour was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours’ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF (and a question)

Posted on July 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Another piece of Foucault from the archive was published last year – Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours‘ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF. Apparently these notes date from the drafting of The Archaeology of Knowledge. I’ve ordered a copy … Continue reading →

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Work for the summer – Shakespeare, Canguilhem and Foucault

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

My last talk of the 2016-17 academic year was in Stockholm at the Nordic Geographers Meeting. This academic year, despite saying ‘no’ quite a lot, I gave twenty visiting talks, in seven different countries (UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, … Continue reading →

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A copy of Foucault and Rocher’s translation of Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Der Gestaltkreis

Posted on July 4, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking for a copy of Foucault and Daniel Rocher’s translation of Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Der Gestaltkreis as Le Cycle de la Structure for sometime, and now have a copy. While the German text is widely available, the translation was … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bibliotheca Walleriana, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Garcia, Shakespeare, Lacan, Delanda and Harman

Posted on June 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Mainly sent in recompense for review work, but also a copy of the Bibliotheca Walleriana – the guide to the library of Erik Waller housed at Uppsala University. Foucault used this extensively in his work on the History of Madness. … Continue reading →

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David Scott (ed.), Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 29, 2017 by stuartelden

David Scott (ed.), Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism is reviewed at NDPR by Corey McCall. This sounds an interesting collection – what a shame about the grotesque price. Even with the 10% discount, both physical book and e-book are over £80. Michel … Continue reading →

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Mark Kelly, For Foucault: Against Normative Political Theory

Posted on June 29, 2017 by stuartelden

I shared Mark Kelly’s review of Althusser et al’s Reading Capital: The Complete Edition at the Progress in Political Economy site yesterday. Mark’s next book,  For Foucault: Against Normative Political Theory is forthcoming in early 2018 from SUNY Press: Calls for a Foucauldian … Continue reading →

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Colin Koopman reviews Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s Futures at NDPR

Posted on June 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Colin Koopman reviews Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason at NDPR. In Foucault’s Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work … Continue reading →

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