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Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire – forthcoming with University of Chicago Press

Posted on February 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject – forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in May 2018. Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed … Continue reading →

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Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Posted on February 15, 2018 by stuartelden

Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan – now out with Berghahn. Looks fascinating, and the use of archives and interviews should make this revealing. The Introduction is available online and has some interesting, though not … Continue reading →

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Discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair in Quartz (in English, open access)

Posted on February 15, 2018 by stuartelden

Olivia Goldhill, “Foucault has a new book out, and it’s the key to understanding his entire work on sexuality“, Quartz, 14 February 2018 Another piece on Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair, including some quotes from me. I’ve added this to … Continue reading →

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“Michel Foucault, l’Iran et le pouvoir du spirituel” – previously unpublished 1979 interview

Posted on February 15, 2018 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, l’Iran et le pouvoir du spirituel – previously unpublished 1979 interview in Bibliobs (requires subscription). A shorter version is published in the print version of L’Obs, 8 February 2018. I have the print version, but if anyone can … Continue reading →

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Territory’s Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier, Queen Mary, University of London, 14 February 2018

Posted on February 14, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
14 February 2018, Territory’s Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier, Queen Mary, University of London,Francis Bancroft Building, Room 3.26 (see here for a map of the campus). I’ll be speaking about my forthcoming book Shakespearean Territories.…

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Big Cities – Small Changes: Thinking Creatively Through Urban Infrastructure – British Academy, 20 Feb 2018

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

Big Cities – Small Changes: Thinking Creatively Through Urban Infrastructure Tuesday 20 February 2018, 9.00am – 4.30pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH Full details available here – Big Cities – Small Changes 20 Feb (pdf) If you’d … Continue reading →

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‘Key’ fourth book of Foucault’s History of Sexuality published in France – The Guardian

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

‘Key’ fourth book of Foucault’s History of Sexuality published in France There is a discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair in The Guardian including some quotes from John Forrester, the editor Frédéric Gros, and me.   I’ve added this … Continue reading →

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Book review – “The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives”, “The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert” and “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being”

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6875-5 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-8223-6897-7 (paper) Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the…

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Derrida’s 64-5 Heidegger Course outline

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

A useful outline of Derrida’s 1964-65 course on Heidegger.

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Books received (3) – Shakespeare, Santner, Diamantides and Schutz, Watkin, Nail, Dikec, Danchev

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

Books in recompense for review work for Edinburgh University Press, and a couple of ones I’d requested from Bloomsbury and OUP which have only just been published. They include the Arden third series edition of King John, Eric Santner’s The … Continue reading →

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