Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Recherches, Foucault, Fourquet, Shakespeare, Vasudevan, Whatmore

Posted on November 25, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books bought or received. Alex Vasudevan’s Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin was sent by him; and Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History? came from Polity – preordered in recompense for review work. Both look really interesting. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – available to preorder

Posted on November 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now available to preorder, either direct from the publisher or at online bookstores. It’s currently scheduled for May 2016, but might be a little earlier. It will be in hardcover and paperback, the latter going for £17.99 … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 7 – working at the Bibliothèque Nationale and a meeting with Foucault’s nephew

Posted on November 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Last week was spent at the Bibliothèque Nationale again, continuing the work on the Foucault papers archived there. I worked through four boxes – the last of the five boxes of preparatory notes for Surveiller et punir that also relate to … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 6 – working on The Punitive Society, drafting Chapter Three, work on Chapter Six and giving some talks

Posted on November 16, 2015 by stuartelden

The bulk of the recent work has been on Chapter Three. This is mainly a discussion of The Punitive Society, along with related materials. The chapter is based on a long review essay I wrote on the French original for Historical Materialism … Continue reading →

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Foucault, citizenship and refugees – translations and commentaries at Open Democracy

Posted on November 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s text ‘The rights and duties of international citizenship‘ is translated at Open Democracy. This statement was read by Foucault at a press conference on June 19, 1981, organized in association with Médecins du monde and Terre des hommes, in the presence of … Continue reading →

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Audio recordings of recent talks on Foucault – on Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-Pieds, and Foucault’s Collaborative Projects

Posted on November 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Audio recordings of two recent talks on Foucault, both of which draw on material from the manuscript of Foucault: The Birth of Power, with a little from Foucault’s Last Decade in the second talk. Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-Pieds, Historical … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – seminar at LSE, November 10th, 4.30pm

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk entitled “Foucault’s Collaborative Projects: Hospitals, Habitat, and Public Infrastructure” to the Cities, Space and Development seminar series of the Department of Geography & Environment, at the London School of Economics at 4.30pm. It will be held in … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade cover

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve been waiting to share the cover of Foucault’s Last Decade until the Polity Press webpage was complete, but it is now up on Amazon, so here it is. It will form a pair with Foucault: The Birth of Power – this book … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Visual Art- links and resources at Heterotopian Studies

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

The Heterotopian Studies site has a useful resource page on ‘Foucault and Visual Art‘, providing links to images which Foucault discusses, along with a bibliography. As well as the obvious – Magritte, Picasso, Velázquez – it also has links to Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive Subject’ in Viewpoint magazine

Posted on November 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive Subject‘ in Viewpoint magazine – an interesting discussion of Foucault’s relation to Marx. [Update: a French version is here]

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