Category Archives: Michel Foucault

“Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales”, plenary lecture – Discipline and Punish Forty Years On, Nottingham 11 September 2015

Posted on June 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Here’s the abstract for my plenary lecture to the Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On conference, to be held at The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 11-12 September 2015. Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales This presentation will … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Mousnier, Lefebvre

Posted on June 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Two OUP editions of Shakespeare, Roland Mousnier’s Peasant Uprisings – used by Foucault in Théories et institutions pénales, and two first editions of Lefebvre’s books in Axelos’s Arguments series.

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Writing about writing, and writing about theory and the use of languages

Posted on June 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Two short pieces recently drafted – a contribution to an edited book on ‘How we Write’, and a piece on the use of other languages in my research. The first is entitled ‘Writing by Accumulation’, and in keeping with the … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 19 now out – special issue on Disability and first English translation of Foucault’s ‘Standing Vigil for the Day to Come’

Posted on June 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies No 19 is now out. It is mainly a special issue on Disability, but includes a number of separate essays, reviews and the first translation of Foucault’s ‘Standing Vigil for the Day to Come‘, a 1963 review essay … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, On the Punitive Society – forthcoming in translation from Palgrave

Posted on June 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, On the Punitive Society, translated by Graham Burchell, forthcoming from Palgrave – date unclear: Palgrave say June; Amazon August. Thanks to Chatham Vemuri for the link to the updated Palgrave page. These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive society,’ delivered … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A few more details about Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, translated by Graham Burchell, are available at the University of Chicago Press site. Much of the material in this … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project – a discussion by Peter Johnson

Posted on June 15, 2015 by stuartelden

“Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project” – a discussion by Peter Johnson at Heterotopian Studies. I have been asked whether I think there is any productive link between heterotopia and Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. I went back to Benjamin’s inspirational book … Continue reading →

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Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015, with lots of good speakers including Judith Revel and Pierre Macherey. Les leçons de Michel Foucault au Collège de France, prononcées entre 1971 et 1984, constituent une somme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Toscano and Kinkle, Edkins, Keighren, Withers and Bell

Posted on June 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859, sent by the publisher; Jenny Edkins, Face Politics, which I endorsed; Toscano and Kinkle’s Cartographies of the Absolute; the first and second editions of Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique (1963 and … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

Posted on June 5, 2015 by stuartelden

In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group met in parallel with the … Continue reading →

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