Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books I’m looking forward to in 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of the books I’m looking forward to this year include Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (edited by Łukasz Stanek and previously unpublished in any language); Neil Brenner’s epic edited collection Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization; Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st … Continue reading →

Posted in Bob Jessop, Books, Derek Gregory, Etienne Balibar, Grégoire Chamayou, Henri Lefebvre, Jenny Edkins, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Publishing | 5 Comments

The twenty-five most important academic books to me from 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Not ordered, not comprehensive, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten some – and of course there are those I’ve not yet read or am unaware of… These are all academic books published in 2013, not drawn from all the books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, David Harvey, Grégoire Chamayou, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, John Protevi, Karl Marx, Louise Amoore, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Universities, urban/urbanisation | 24 Comments

25 research talks in 2013 – with links to audio versions

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

The talk in Halifax at ArcticNet was the 25th research talk in a really busy year. (Links in what follows are to audio recordings, where available). I gave talks on the Shakespearean territories project at the University of York, Aberystwyth University, Memorial University of Newfoundland … Continue reading →

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Four new Foucault books

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
      In addition to the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (mentioned in my previous post, and which I should add has no less than 117 entries!), you may like to know of a few other…

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The missing question from Foucault’s ‘Confession of the Flesh’ interview – a translation

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

While looking for something else, I discovered that the important 1977 interview ‘Le jeu de Michel Foucault’ (DE no 206, Vol II, pp. 298-329) is not completely translated as ‘The Confession of the Flesh’ in Power/Knowledge, edited by Colin Gordon … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – sixth update

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Much of the recent work on this project has been continuing work on Chapter Three, especially the discussions of perverts, women and children. I keep reworking sections and adding more and more detail, well aware some of this will need … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – now has a page with links

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve created a page on this blog under Future Projects for the Foucault’s Last Decade book. This has the proposal, links to the updates I’ve posted here about the book’s progress, and links to a couple of audio recordings of papers. … Continue reading →

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The Funambulist on Stoler, Foucault and Race

Posted on December 30, 2013 by stuartelden

The Funambulist has an interesting post on ‘The Desired Colonized Body: Foucault and Race by Ann Laura Stoler‘. I clearly remember reading Stoler’s text Race and the Education of Desire while doing my PhD, and finding its discussion of Foucault’s as-then-unpublished lecture course … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes … Continue reading →

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Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault (2013)

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Damien Boquet, Blaise Dufal, Pauline Labey (éd.), Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2013 Publisher’s page Further info on Les émotions au Moyen Âge site Cette réflexion de Jacques…

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