Category Archives: Michel Foucault

A question for German and Italian Foucault scholars

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

A question that I hope someone can help with. For the German and Italian translations of Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, Foucault wrote a new preface. This appears in Dits et écrits as text number 190, but as a retranslation into French … Continue reading →

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Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives – translated into English

Posted on February 18, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve just discovered that Arlette Farge’s book Le Goût de l’archive was translated into English and was published last year as The Allure of the Archive. Farge worked with Foucault on the lettres de cachet collection Le désordre des families – also being translated … Continue reading →

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Talks on Foucault’s La société punitive in Melbourne – 3 and 4 March 2014

Posted on February 14, 2014 by stuartelden

In addition to the talks on The Birth of Territory (details here); I’ll be giving talks on Foucault’s La société punitive at Monash University on 3 March 2014, 11am (Clayfield Room A1. 34, Caufield Campus – map here); and at the University of Melbourne on … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s back cover text for Surveiller et punir – scan, French, English translation

Posted on February 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton recently provided an image of the original back cover for Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, including a text signed ‘M.F.’   The text has now been transcribed and translated by Philippe Theophanidis at his Aphelis blog. Incidentally, the Gallimard Tel edition I … Continue reading →

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Posted on February 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as…

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Foucault “Discourse and Truth. The Problematization of Parrhesia”

Posted on February 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
      Does anyone know if Foucault’s 1983 lecture series “Discourse and Truth the Problematization of Parrhesia” has ever been put online in the above format? I don’t mean the audio lectures, the book…

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Foucault’s Last Decade – eighth update

Posted on February 7, 2014 by stuartelden

The first thing I did on arrival in Melbourne was finish work on a short piece on Grégoire Chamayou’s Manhunts for The Funambulist, which returns to some of the arguments I’ve made about Foucault and territory. I’m grateful to Léopold … Continue reading →

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REMEDIAEVAL: Proposal for a New Minigraph Book Series

Posted on February 7, 2014 by stuartelden

In the Middle has news of an interesting publishing venture from Eileen Joy and Karl Steel – REMEDIAEVAL, a New Minigraph Book Series. Here’s a couple of paragraphs, but you should really check out the whole post: Currently, the Middle Ages … Continue reading →

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The Productive Body by Didier Deleule and François Guéry

Posted on February 3, 2014 by stuartelden

An important 1972 book, mentioned by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, is finally coming out in English translation in March 2014, with an excellent introduction by the translators. The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been … Continue reading →

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Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago – Hegemonía, gubernamentalidad, territorio

Posted on February 2, 2014 by stuartelden

If you read Spanish, this looks like a really interesting article linking Foucault, Gramsci and Lefebvre to the study of urban planning – ‘Hegemonía, gubernamentalidad, territorio. Apuntes metodológicos para una historia social de la planificación’ (via Álvaro’s blog – Multipliciudades).

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