Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 22: work with the Semiotext(e) archive and manuscript submitted for review

Posted on May 12, 2015 by stuartelden

The manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I’ve said, was almost complete. It is now with the press for review. In the last couple of weeks, while in New York, I’ve chased down a few final references; read the very … Continue reading →

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Day three in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A final day in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley (see my notes on day one and day two). Today I listened to some recordings they had of lectures in São Paulo. The library catalogue provides no information at all, and Beaulieu’s list just … Continue reading →

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Day two in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Another day working with the Foucault papers, and mainly the recordings, in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley (see my notes on day one). The tapes are listed in the Beaulieu piece on the archive, but many of these are … Continue reading →

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Jamin Raskin, “A last interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault”, City Paper – now found and available online

Posted on May 5, 2015 by stuartelden

I’d almost given up on this, but I now have a copy of one of the really elusive texts I’ve been hunting for – Jamin Raskin, “A last interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault”, City Paper, Vol 8 No 3, Jul 27-Aug 2 … Continue reading →

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Day one in the Foucault archive at UC Berkeley

Posted on May 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Today was my first day doing work on Foucault in the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Alain Beaulieu wrote a useful guide to “The Foucault Archives at Berkeley”, in Foucault Studies in 2010, and much of what they have is also available … Continue reading →

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Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights – forthcoming in October 2015

Posted on May 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights is forthcoming later this year with Stanford University Press. This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales – forthcoming in May 2015

Posted on April 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1971-72 course at the Collège de France, Théories et institutions pénales, is forthcoming in May 2015. This is the last of the courses to be published, though I understand some courses from elsewhere may appear in the future. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 21: a second book on The Birth of Power

Posted on April 23, 2015 by stuartelden

There have been some major changes to the project since the last update. I’ve held back this post until the situation was clearer. When I initially proposed the Foucault’s Last Decade book to Polity, it was to have an opening … Continue reading →

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Edmund White’s memories of Michel Foucault

Posted on April 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Edmund White’s memories of Michel Foucault in The Telegraph. Not normally a paper I’d link to, but… I have White’s book on Jean Genet and his novel Caracole in my ‘to read’ piles…

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Books received – Peck and Theodore, Mauriac, Krell, Drischler

Posted on April 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore’s Fast Policy in recompense for review work; another volume of Claude Mauriac’s memoirs for the Foucault project; David Farrell Krell’s Phantoms of the Other to review; and two papers on Leibniz sent by … Continue reading →

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