Category Archives: Michel Foucault

State, Power, Freedom: European Political Theory – outline for teaching next year

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to, now back in a Politics department, was to teach some political theory. So, this is the outline of a planned module for either final year undergraduates or MA students. It revolves … Continue reading →

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Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Ann Radcliffe and the geography of crime – a question on La société punitive

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

[Update: apologies, but the editor of the course, Bernard Harcourt, notes that this text is an ‘apocryphal novel’ on p. 62 n. 18. Don’t know how I missed that. Nonetheless, it does rather the question of whether the translation into … Continue reading →

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Progressive Geographies’s Foucault and Lefebvre resource pages

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

There are now two pages of Foucault resources and Lefebvre resources – gathering a few different posts on this site together. They include short translations, the reading guide to Lefebvre and a few other bits and pieces. There is not … Continue reading →

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Works of twentieth-century theory that exist in new or revised translations – further examples wanted

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

As I said I would last week, I’m preparing a detailed post on why we need a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, and was thinking of other major works of twentieth-century theory that exist in more than one translation. There … Continue reading →

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Re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 17, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the day in the State Library of Victoria, re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and comparing them carefully to Surveiller et punir. This took me much longer than anticipated. I knew this text well – I’ve taught it quite a … Continue reading →

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In Melbourne, visiting Monash University

Posted on January 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m spending the next several weeks in Melbourne, visiting Monash University as part of the Monash-Warwick alliance. As anyone following the tennis will know, it’s extremely hot here at the moment. But I’m finding libraries and offices to work in, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – seventh update

Posted on January 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Recent work has been across a number of chapters. First, further work on Chapter Three entitled ‘Pervert, Hysteric, Child’. As well as the pieces I wrote on Psychiatric Power and The Abnormals, in my files I also had a draft … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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Stockerblog on Foucault’s Punitive Society II

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Stockerblog continues the reading of Foucault’s  La société punitive – here (part one here).

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