Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Posted on August 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now in production. Over the past couple of weeks I have turned in earnest to the book on the earlier period, entitled Foucault: The Birth of Power. The initial work on this book was taking all … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia

Posted on August 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul … Continue reading →

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Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On – The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 11-12 Sept 2015

Posted on August 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Further details and programme for this conference – I’ll be giving the opening plenary talk on the recently published Théories et institutions pénales course. Places are free but limited and registration is required. Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On Friday … Continue reading →

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Two posts on writing at The Sociological Imagination and An und für sich

Posted on July 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Two posts on writing at The Sociological Imagination and An und für sich. The first talks about writing being disconnected from the internet, and whether this works for different writers or not. It’s written by David Beer, reflecting on the … Continue reading →

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Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in December 2015

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts (eds.), Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in December 2015 from Palgrave. I was one of the readers of the manuscript to provide an endorsement – it’s a very good and interesting … Continue reading →

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The week after completing a book – initial new work on Shakespeare and Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2015 by stuartelden

When I finished my first book, Mapping the Present, I remember asking a much more senior academic friend ‘what do I do now?’ His response was clear: ‘Write another one!’ This came back to me this week as I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade Update 25 – resubmission of revised manuscript

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now back with the press, in what I hope is its final form. It is scheduled for publication in spring 2016. The first update on this book’s writing was made on July 22 2013 –almost exactly … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Shakespeare… and one by Foucault

Posted on July 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Shakespeare, Shakespeare… and one by Foucault. The Foucault is the ninth edition, but I don’t think is any different from the second – which he produced in 1972, though that has major changes from the 1963 version. With … Continue reading →

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Theory and Other Languages – short article at E-IR

Posted on July 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I have a short piece entitled “Theory and Other Languages” at E-IR (open access). This was written on the request for a piece on this topic by Jan Tattenberg. It’s an autobiographical piece about how my work has been conducted … Continue reading →

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Foucault Animated – video from The School of Life

Posted on July 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Installing Social Order shared this video about Foucault. I think it’s Alain de Botton speaking. The animation is very good, but the script could have used some serious work.

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