Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pamphlet online

Posted on January 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Yesterday I linked to a piece written by Sartre and signed by Foucault and others. Thanks to dmf for providing a link to the entire pamphlet online. Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pdf or individual … Continue reading →

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Appeal by Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze and others on imprisonment of Italian intellectuals, 1977

Posted on January 13, 2016 by stuartelden

In 1977 Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze, Barthes, and others wrote an open letter protesting about the imprisonment and investigation of a number of Italian intellectuals, including ‘Bifo’ (Franco Berardi) and Antonio Negri. I’d not seen this before and it is the … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia (Feb 2016)

Posted on January 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia will appear with Vrin in February 2016. This is a critical French edition of the English language lectures on parresia delivered at Berkeley in the autumn of 1983, previously published as Fearless … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism – UCL, 12 Jan 2016, 12.30pm

Posted on January 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Just back from a week’s holiday, with no email or internet. Tomorrow at 1pm (refreshments from 12.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism”, to the Geography Department at University College London. … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 10 – Chapter Five and a complete first draft

Posted on January 4, 2016 by stuartelden

With Chapters Four and Six drafted, Chapter Five was the only one I didn’t have in a decent form. The first task for this was the section on the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons (GIP). Foucault was actively involved in this … Continue reading →

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Foucault, crime and prisons – on film and online

Posted on January 2, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve previously shared a list of audio and video recordings of Foucault, and I won’t repeat things here. But there are a few pieces of documentary evidence about Foucault’s work and crime and prisons which are full-length films. The best-known … Continue reading →

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2015 in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to ‘best-of’ lists

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

I began 2015 with the manuscript of a book under the title Foucault’s Last Decade close, I thought, to completion. But it was far too long. In the end, I cut the first two long chapters out, and submitted a book … Continue reading →

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Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The vast majority of academic reading in 2015 was related to Foucault, with a lot of Shakespeare work along the way. Many of these were published some time ago. These were the twenty books published in 2015 I read and most … Continue reading →

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A previously unpublished 1983 conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon – forthcoming in Theory, Culture and Society

Posted on December 29, 2015 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” is forthcoming in Theory, Culture and Society. I found a recording of the discussion in the Berkeley archive, and since I knew Jonathan, got in touch. We had a conversation … Continue reading →

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Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Posted on December 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, is now published with University of Chicago Press.  When the book came out in French I provided a note of the original English-language sources. What … Continue reading →

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