Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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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Foucault in Tunisia – three hard-to-find lectures from Cahiers de Tunisie

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Thanks to the archival work of Natalie (@160B), here are three lectures Foucault gave in Tunisia. The Manet one was later published in a more polished form in La peinture de Manet which was then translated into English as Manet and … Continue reading →

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault in Spanish – a bit more information

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A little more on Deleuze on Foucault in Spanish: There is a different translation of three lectures – 17 Dec 85; 7, 14 Jan 1986 in Michel Foucault y el poder. This therefore overlaps with the two volumes previously mentioned:- El saber … Continue reading →

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault in Spanish too

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

As well as the Italian, thanks to readers on Twitter and Facebook for alerting me to Spanish versions of these lectures – a second volume, on Power, has been published as well as the first on Knowledge. Update: A third … Continue reading →

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault – first available in Italian; any other languages forthcoming?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by stuartelden

While looking for something else, I found that the first of Deleuze’s courses on Foucault has been published in Italian. Are any other languages forthcoming? I can’t find a French version, though of course the recordings of the lectures are … Continue reading →

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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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