Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi – new book forthcoming

Posted on February 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Vrin are publishing a new collection of Foucault’s work – Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi. This is two lectures – one from May 1978 and one from April 1983. The first was on Kant, and was published posthumously (and … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

Posted on February 19, 2015 by stuartelden

As many readers of this blog will know, I’ve been posting various bits of news about Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ over the past year or so. In that time I’ve been asked to speak on Heidegger at events in the UK … Continue reading →

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

Posted on February 16, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading →

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Théories et Institutions Penales – Foucault’s 1971-72 course available to pre-order on Amazon.fr

Posted on February 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1971-72 lecture course, Théories et Institutions Pénales – the last to be published – is available to pre-order on Amazon.fr. Seuil does not have it listed on their site yet. It is again edited by Bernard Harcourt – who did the … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 20

Posted on February 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Since I arrived in Melbourne I’ve been working on the complete manuscript of the Foucault book, and I’ve made use of the libraries of Monash University, State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne. One thing that the University of … Continue reading →

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Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I posted details of all my talks in Sydney over the next few weeks yesterday. A very nice poster for the University of Sydney talk has just been produced.

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Foucault, “The Politics of [Soviet] Crime” – a request for help from Italian readers

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

[update: I have a copy of the Italian text, but have also now found the full and unpublished French original transcript at IMEC. I don’t need the text mentioned below any longer, but have kept the post up as the … Continue reading →

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Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March. 26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de literature forthcoming in English

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s La grande étrangère: À propos de literature is forthcoming in English translation with University of Minnesota Press as Language, Madness and Desire: On Literature, scheduled for May 2015. As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches … Continue reading →

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