Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Archipelago/Funambulist Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Stuart Elden on Territory and Volume

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve linked to content on Archipelago – the podcast companion site to Léopold Lambert’s The Funambulist – before. This time it’s a discussion with me, conducted at the CUSP offices in New York, and mainly discussing my 2013 article “Secure the … Continue reading →

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Next installments of Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lectures

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The second half of lecture 1, and the first half of lecture 2.

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Interview about the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

In advance of the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference later this month, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Foucault’s death, an interview with the organisers.

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Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The new translation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality; Lefebvre’s Trois textes pour le theâtre; Virilio’s Open Sky; Trawny’s Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung; Harvey’s The Urban Experience; the new edition of a … Continue reading →

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Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault on the punitive society continues

Posted on May 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Lecture eight part one and two – Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s La société punitive continues.

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s The Punitive Society VII 1 and 2

Posted on May 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker continues his reading of Foucault’s La société punitive, lecture seven, parts one and two.

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society VI.1 and 2

Posted on May 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s lectures continues – parts 1 and 2.  

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Foucault on painting – some references

Posted on May 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Heterotopian Studies has a useful bibliography of Foucault on painting, and of relevant secondary literature. It focuses on shorter pieces, rather than the discussion of paintings in The Order of Things and History of Madness. The list of secondary literature is … Continue reading →

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The ruins of Cuba’s Panopticon – some photos

Posted on May 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to David Murakami Wood for the link to this photo-essay on the ruined Panopticon in Cuba.

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Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

Posted on May 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I was involved in three events this week. The first was the most wide-ranging – a filmed conversation with Babette Babich at Fordham University, that ranged from contemporary territorial issues to Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre; Greek geography to … Continue reading →

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