Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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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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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