Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Review essay of Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 at Berfrois

Posted on June 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review essay of Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972, edited by … Continue reading →

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Books received 2 – various things for the Foucault projects

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – various things for the Foucault projects, including the new lecture course, background on May 68 and the abortion rights struggle in France, one of Foucault’s major sources on the revolt of the Nu-pieds, and a book about his … Continue reading →

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Last Call for Abstracts: MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory (2015)

Posted on May 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Last Call for Abstracts MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 1-3 September 2015 ‘Resistance and Power beyond Foucault’ Convener: Guilel Treiber, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Guilel.Treiber@hiw.kuleuven.be) The nature of political power is changing. The state is no longer the only, or … Continue reading →

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Journée d’étude autours de M. Foucault, “Théories et institutions pénales”, Paris 2 June 2015

Posted on May 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to Andrea Teti for sending details of this event in Paris for the new lecture course. I’m currently writing a review of it for Berfrois. Mardi 2 juin 2015, 9h – 18h “Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches” … Continue reading →

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“Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre and Politics”, abstract for workshop at Theatre, Performance, Foucault!, King’s College London, 4 July 2015

Posted on May 22, 2015 by stuartelden

I previously shared the call for papers for the Theatre, Performance, Foucault! workshop at King’s College London on 4 July 2015. I’ll be presenting on the topic of “Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre and Politics”. This is the intersection of my two … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – now available in paperback

Posted on May 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – is now available in paperback. Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his … Continue reading →

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Foucault books: update 23 – working with the Semiotext(e) archive

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

I have now finished working through all the papers in Sylvère Lotringer’s Semiotext(e) archive in the Fales Library at New York University which have a relation to this project. In among a lot of things that were of little interest, … Continue reading →

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Michael Joyce’s novel ‘Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden’ – reviewed at Berfrois

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Michael Joyce’s novel Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden – reviewed at Berfrois by Dave Ciccoricco. … Interrogating the status and resonance of unsent letters is one of the tantalizing tasks of Michael Joyce’s latest novel, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus … Continue reading →

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Zamora and Behrent (eds.) Foucault and Neoliberalism – forthcoming in November 2015 from Polity

Posted on May 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The English version of the book which caused a storm last year – Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds.) Foucault and Neoliberalism – is forthcoming in November 2015 from Polity. Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading … Continue reading →

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Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published

Posted on May 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Hot off the press – Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales is published. This is the last Collège de France course to appear, though it is the second in sequence, from 1971-72. Bernard E. Harcourt edited the text, it comes with … Continue reading →

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