Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction)

Posted on September 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction). French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of ‘poststructuralism’ in the Anglophone world. However in France, … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault: A Research Companion – forthcoming in November from Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S Thaning, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer

Posted on September 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault: A Research Companion – forthcoming in November 2015 from Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S Thaning, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer. Michel Foucault continues to be hugely influential. His diagnoses challenge us to rethink crucial phenomena such as madness, discipline, the human sciences, … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 3 – Théories et institutions pénales and activist work on health and asylums

Posted on September 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on two aspects of this project. The first was on the 1971-72 course Théories et institutions pénales, for Chapter Two. There are two main parts of the course, on the Nu-Pieds revolts of … Continue reading →

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Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On – a few thoughts after the Nottingham conference

Posted on September 14, 2015 by stuartelden

On Friday I gave the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. The room we were in for much of the event was … Continue reading →

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Books received – Schmitt, Kurelić, Porchnev, JUCS, Annals, RP, The Funambulist

Posted on September 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Carl Schmitt’s Dialogues on Power and Space, Zoran Kurelić (ed.), Violence, Art and Politics (a gift from one of the contributors, Krešimir Petković), Boris Porchnev’s Les soulèvements populaires en France de 1623 à 1648 (see why here), and recent issues of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Annals … Continue reading →

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Update on the Foucault/13 Years at the Collège de France at Columbia University – places closed; live streaming details

Posted on September 13, 2015 by stuartelden

via Foucault News Update on the 13/13 series of seminars from the website The first seminar will take place  on September 14, 2015. Thank you very much for your interest in the series Foucault 13/13. The seminar has received an … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Prisons (and Elden on Schmitt) in Radical Philosophy open access to link to Nottingham conference

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

From the good people at Radical Philosophy, in relation to tomorrow’s conference: A free two-day conference, ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On,’ begins tomorrow at Nottingham Trent University, rethinking the legacy of Foucault’s text today and RP contributor … Continue reading →

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Preparing for the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On’ conference

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I’ll be giving the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. My talk is entitled “Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry … Continue reading →

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Boris Porchnev/Porshnev on feudalism – were any of his works translated from Russian?

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

I mentioned Boris Porchnev/Porshnev in a previous post today, looking at the two editions of his work on peasant uprisings in seventeenth century France. Foucault uses his work in his reading of the Nu-Pieds revolts in Théories et institutions pénales. In Claude-Oliver … Continue reading →

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Books received – Tawney, The ‘Katrina Effect’, La politique de l’espace parisien, Shakespeare

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A couple of recent Penguin Shakespeare plays, the reissue of Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (in recompense for review work), The ‘Katrina Effect’ (from the publisher), a couple of journal issues, and a copy of La politique de l’espace parisien. The … Continue reading →

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