Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Mitchell Dean – Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie (2016)

Posted on February 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie, Stanford University Press blog, 19 Feb 2016 In order to understand any major thinker and their legacy, it is important to consider their context—a truism that is … Continue reading →

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Korean translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade forthcoming

Posted on February 18, 2016 by stuartelden

Translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade are forthcoming in Korean with Kyungsung University Press and Nanjang Publishing House respectively. These might be the first of my authored books to appear in translation, since potential translations of The Birth of Territory into … Continue reading →

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons translation in Viewpoint

Posted on February 17, 2016 by stuartelden

The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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The GIP, the 1972 Nancy prison revolt and the Gauche révolutionnaire – a request for help

Posted on February 11, 2016 by stuartelden

I wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for a brochure entitled ‘Révolte à la prison de Charles III de Nancy’, authored by the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons. It appeared as a supplement to Gauche révolutionnaire, no 9, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Foucault, Jessop

Posted on February 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – mainly bought for the Shakespeare project, plus Foucault’s 1980 lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutic of the Subject and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future in recompense for review work. The text at the … Continue reading →

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Jeroen Vandaele on translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Jeroen Vandaele, ‘What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation‘, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Vol 24 No 1, 2016, pp. 76-92 (requires subscription). A very interesting piece which discusses translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir with lots of examples and comparisons. Though … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 11: clearing the decks and beginning to move from Foucault to Shakespeare

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The UCL talk last week was the last one in the diary until September – a very deliberate choice to open up some time that needed quite a bit of forward-planning to achieve. I might do one or two book … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Groupe Information Santé – a bibliography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s involvement with the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons is fairly well-known, with important collections of documentary material published in French, a forthcoming English translation of material, and a growing secondary literature in French and English. His involvement with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health: Collaborative research and activism – audio recording of UCL talk

Posted on January 18, 2016 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk of 12 January 2016 to the Geography Department seminar, University College London is now available here. The introduction is by Tariq Jazeel. “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism” Concentrating … Continue reading →

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Books received – several more for the Foucault work, including the new Œuvres

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Several books for the Foucault project, most picked up second-hand and relating to the work of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, but also the new Œuvres and the Vrin edition of the Kant introduction along with Foucault’s translation of the text. On … Continue reading →

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