Category Archives: Michel Foucault

No joke – Foucault’s Last Decade is officially published today

Posted on April 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is officially published today. The date is mere coincidence. If you order direct from Wiley – Polity’s distributor – then the book should be sent now. Other online retailers will be getting copies shortly. Thank you to … Continue reading →

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Autumn and Winter 2016-17 talks – Foucault, Shakespeare and Terrain

Posted on March 31, 2016 by stuartelden

My attempt at keeping the diary clear of talks between January and September this year is just about holding. The last seminar I gave was on Foucault and health research and activism in January, and with the exception of three small … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature reviewed at NDPR

Posted on March 30, 2016 by stuartelden

Also at NDPR, Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature, is reviewed by Mark Olssen. I have a review of this collection, written some time ago, which is still forthcoming.

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Foucault’s Last Decade Update 26: advanced copy received and some final reflections

Posted on March 21, 2016 by stuartelden

This is the 26th and probably final update on the writing and production of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I received an advanced copy of the physical book a couple of days ago. Copies should be available in online stores and elsewhere in … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground interview with Miguel de Beistegui

Posted on March 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Miguel de Beistegui – covers his work on Heidegger, Foucault, Proust and others.

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Foucault and Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation (video interview)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by stuartelden

In 2015 in Prato I was interviewed for the ‘Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation‘ project, about Foucault’s late work and the Foucault’s Last Decade book. Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation is a two-year-long research project investigating the revival of ethical … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 12: Another trip to Paris and submission of the manuscript

Posted on March 9, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve spent most of my time since the last update working on Shakespeare, but I made a trip to Paris in February to do some further work on Foucault. At Richelieu site I continued working on the manuscripts, moving to boxes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Elemental Ecocriticism, State Phobia and Civil Society and Shakespeare

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books. I have a chapter in Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Elemental Ecocriticism, and Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen’s State Phobia and Civil Society were both sent by publishers, and … Continue reading →

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The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle – in Viewpoint Magazine

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden

“The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle” – in Viewpoint Magazine (open access). This is an edited excerpt from the manuscript of my book Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity Press, forthcoming 2017. Also … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault at 90 – 22-23 June 2016, University of West of Scotland

Posted on February 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault at 90: International Conference University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, Scotland, UK Call for Papers This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-84). This interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect … Continue reading →

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