Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault and Jean-Pierre Peter – some thoughts on sources of ‘the abnormals’ and the case of Pierre Rivière

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Abnormals lecture course, Foucault refers to a veritable rogues’ gallery of murderers, cannibals and perverts. The latter term, of course, is one that he examines in terms of its historical emergence – what counts as a deviation, an … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La société punitive – some more details

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

While the date of publication for Foucault’s La société punitive has slipped yet again to 5 December 2013, there are a few more details up on amazon.fr: L’organisation d’une pénalité d’enfermement n’est pas simplement récente, elle est énigmatique. Qu’est-ce qui pénètre dans … Continue reading →

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Peter Johnson on Foucault’s heterotopia

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Peter Johnson has a review essay on Foucault’s heterotopia essay and its afterlife in the new issue of Geography Compass (requires subscription). See also the blog Heterotopian Studies that Peter runs.

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

New book out from my Warwick colleague Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name. Great shame about the price though. Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of … Continue reading →

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Foucault Doctoral Workshop – call for papers

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Philippe Bonditti: Call for papers (in English and French) for the Foucault Doctoral Workshop organized by the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault (Paris). It will take place next January 15th and 16th 2014 at IMEC (Abbaye d’Ardenne, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Althusser project; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault and Power; Michael Dear’s Why Walls Won’t Work; and the latest Society and Space.

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Foucault, On the Government of the Living – forthcoming in 2014

Posted on October 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Palgrave now have a page for Foucault’s 1979-80 lecture course On the Government of the Living. Thanks to Harvey Shoolman for the alert. [update – publication has slipped from March to September 2014]

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fourth update

Posted on October 25, 2013 by stuartelden

It has been a long time since the third update on the book I’m writing entitled Foucault’s Last Decade, under contract with Polity Press. Since that last update I’ve moved house and started a new job – both of which have … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power – soon to be published

Posted on October 24, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve just heard from Bloomsbury that advance copies of Marcelo Hoffman’s really important study Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power are now being sent out – I wrote one of the endorsements. Highly recommended. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Miles Davis, Ghanaian sunshine…

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden
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