Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Forthcoming Publications – new page and some preprints

Posted on September 29, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve added a forthcoming publications page to the site, along with links to a few preprints. These are only for publications currently in production – it doesn’t include things under review or being drafted. I’m hoping the Boko Haram paper will … Continue reading →

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My essay on Foucault’s La société punitive – forthcoming in Historical Materialism

Posted on September 24, 2014 by stuartelden

My substantial (c. 8,000 words) essay on Foucault’s La société punitive is forthcoming in Historical Materialism. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for his invitation to write this, and Alberto Toscano for taking it through two rounds of review. My shorter review of this important … Continue reading →

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‘Exercises in the History of Ideas’: An interview with Stuart Elden by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani

Posted on September 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Back in March I was interviewed by two graduate students at the University of Melbourne, Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani, about my writing, background and approach to work. It covers my work on territory, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre, and Shakespeare and some future plans. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Guattari, Foucault & Aron, Empson

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Three books added to some growing ‘to-read’ piles – Martin Empson’s Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History, Gary Genosko’s other introduction to Guattari, and a short book of a radio interview between Michel Foucault and Raymond Aron, which I … Continue reading →

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A week at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design – speaking about Iraq and Nigeria, urban territory and Lefebvre

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m now on my way home from a very interesting and enjoyable week at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The invitation was to give one of the two keynote talks to a conference on the Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Conferences, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Music, Politics, Territory, Terror and Territory, Travel, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

Books received – Querrien, Recherches, Gordillo, Piper, Lefebvre

Posted on September 12, 2014 by stuartelden

Three books linked to Michel Foucault’s collaborative work with CERFI; Gastón Gordillo’s Rubble (see my interview with Gastón at societyandspace.com); Karen Piper’s The Price of Thirst; a first edition of Henri Lefebvre’s study of the Pyrenees, and the new issues of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cowen, Doolen, Anderson, Boyd and Linehan, Foucault

Posted on September 8, 2014 by stuartelden

A pile of books received. Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics (from the publisher); Andy Doolen’s Territories of Empire (which I endorsed); Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect and Boyd &  Linehan’s Ordnance (in recompense for Ashgate review work); L’Herne’s 2011 volume … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 13

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – a bibliography with notes

Posted on August 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of Foucault’s collaborative projects are well-known – the I, Pierre Rivière collection; the Herculine Barbin memoir; Le désordre des familles with Arlette Farge; and the posthumous Technologies of the Self volume from the seminar at the University of Vermont. … Continue reading →

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‘Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault’ – Warwick, 25-27 September 2014

Posted on August 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation: Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault, University of Warwick, 25-27 September 2014 – full details here Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as philosophers have … Continue reading →

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