Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Alberto Toscano, The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons

Posted on February 7, 2015 by stuartelden

This isn’t new, but I’d not seen this 2013 piece before – Alberto Toscano’s review of “The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons” in Viewpoint. We are for­tu­nate to now have in a French edi­tion a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 – conference at Harvard

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at Year 50: An International Conference – Friday, April 17, 2015, 12:00pm to Saturday, April 18, 2015, 6:30pm, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, sponsored by History and Theory. Vincent Descombes is the keynote speaker. This … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in June 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1973 lectures On The Punitive Society are forthcoming in English in June August 2015. I have a review of the French text at Berfrois (open access); and a review essay forthcoming in Historical Materialism (preprint here). These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe…

Posted on January 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015. Speakers include Étienne Balibar, Wendy Brown, Bernard Harcourt, and Achille Mbembe… Over the past two decades neoliberalism and biopolitics have emerged as essential terms for critical theorists of all stripes attempting to analyze ongoing … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 19: a nearly complete first draft

Posted on January 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update I’ve spent two long days working on the individual chapter files, checking and rechecking things, filling in references, and reorganising some things. In particular I reworked all the parts on the lettres de cachet. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 18

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

The last major task of the first draft was a discussion of the final two Paris lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others and The Courage of Truth. The first of these courses provides the basis for the October-November … Continue reading →

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Todd May reviews Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling at NDPR

Posted on January 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Todd May reviews Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, at NDPR. You can read my take on those lectures, and On the Government of the Living, at Berfrois.

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A request for help – some difficult-to-find texts by Michel Foucault

Posted on January 16, 2015 by stuartelden

I wonder if anyone reading can help locate copies of these texts by, or about, Foucault. Texts crossed out are ones that I have been sent copies of already. Michel Foucault, “Photogenic painting”, translated by Pierre A. Walker, Critical texts, … Continue reading →

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‘Maurice Florence’ on Michel Foucault – the missing opening paragraph

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

One of the things I’ve been doing with the Foucault’s Last Decade project is checking the original publication of texts in several instances, rather than relying on the reprints in Dits et écrits. Sometimes this is because the company Foucault … Continue reading →

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Kathleen Biddick, Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties – forthcoming from Punctum Books

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Kathleen Biddick’s Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties is forthcoming from Punctum Books. This collection of essays by one of medieval studies’ most brilliant and prescient historians argues that the analysis and critique of biopower, as conventionally defined by Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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