Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Surviving October

Posted on November 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Well, I survived October. It felt like the perfect storm after the calm of a year of research leave. I did what I thought I could to get in the best possible shape for it – a first draft of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Hollis, Rudwick, Maier

Posted on October 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Charles Maier’s Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500,  Martin Rudwick’s Earth’s Deep History, Gavin Hollis, The Absence of America: The London Stage 1576-1642 and two by Foucault – the recent reedition of his essay Sept propos … Continue reading →

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Books received – Greenblatt, Soussloff, Howe, Graham

Posted on October 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Two second-hand copies of books by Stephen Greenblatt, the new collection Foucault on the Arts and Letters in recompense for review work (30% discount here), and two books sent by publishers – Nicolas Howe’s Landscapes of the Secular and Stephen … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare: The Theatre of Madness

Posted on October 18, 2016 by stuartelden

My paper ‘Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics’ should appear in The Southern Journal of Philosophy in late 2017, in the Spindel conference supplement. I’ve recently agreed to write a second piece developing out of this work: Foucault and Shakespeare: The Theatre … Continue reading →

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A new term at Warwick – teaching but also some research

Posted on October 7, 2016 by stuartelden

On Monday a new term at Warwick began. My teaching is blocked into term 1, and most of it is in the first few weeks, so this is a busy time. I’m also heading to California next week for the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cisney & Morar, Gautam, Ramachandran, Derrida, Burnham, Fink, Greenblatt, Lecavalier

Posted on October 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Mainly from Chicago in recompense for review work, along with two second-hand books (Burnham for teaching, Greenblatt for the Shakespeare project), Jesse Lecavalier, The Rule of Logistics, sent by the publisher, and Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World, to … Continue reading →

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Adam Kotsko’s thoughts on Dotan Leshem’s Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault

Posted on September 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko’s thoughts on Dotan Leshem’s The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault. 

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Foucault’s History of Sexuality Vol I, 40 years on – theme issue of Cultural History

Posted on September 27, 2016 by stuartelden

‘Revisiting The History of Sexuality: Thinking with Foucault at Forty’, theme issue of Cultural History, guest edited by Howard Chiang. Here’s the abstract of the introduction: This critical introduction discusses the major interventions of this special issue commemorating the fortieth anniversary … Continue reading →

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Interview about Foucault’s Last Decade on New Books in Critical Theory (audio)

Posted on September 22, 2016 by stuartelden

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Dave O’Brien of Goldsmiths about Foucault’s Last Decade for the New Books in Critical Theory series. The recording is now available as a podcast: Download (Duration: 47:54 — 21.9MB) or to stream … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare, Terrain and forthcoming talks

Posted on September 15, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve been fairly quiet on this blog recently. That isn’t to say I haven’t been busy – mainly on the Shakespeare project. (More on this project can be found here). Unlike the work for the Foucault books, I haven’t felt … Continue reading →

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