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End of day two of final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Lots of work over the past two days on this second Foucault manuscript. In particular, the introduction is restructured, some parts rewritten and some new discussion. I say a bit more about the sources worked with, and the argument and approach up … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – essay on the content and process at Berfrois

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. At the Berfrois website I have a short essay discussing Foucault’s Last Decade, both in terms of its … Continue reading →

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Society and Space volume 34 issue 3 now online

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space, including an essay by Lauren Berlant, first delivered at the AAG conference in 2015.

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Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World And Other Writings – forthcoming from IUP

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World And Other Writings is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. This is a book I’ve found very helpful in thinking about the ‘world’, and wrote about in an article in 2008 for Parrhesia. Its … Continue reading →

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Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Life: Value, Security and Risk

Posted on May 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Life: Value, Security and Risk, the third volume in his trilogy on these questions, is forthcoming in May in the Interventions series at Routledge. At the moment it is only a very expensive hardback – £90 for … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in July from Verso

Posted on May 12, 2016 by stuartelden

Although it has been a bit delayed, Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy is now forthcoming from Verso in July 2016. First published in 1965, it was translated by David Fernbach. I edited the text and wrote an introduction. In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works … Continue reading →

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A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on May 12, 2016 by stuartelden

A fairly clear desk as I begin the final revisions of Foucault: The Birth of Power…

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The Dissonance of Things #6: Logistics – Violence, Empire and Resistance

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Source: Marcus Lyon This May, The Dissonance of Things switches out British accents for those of the vaguely North American variety, as I serve as host for our sixth podcast on the topic of…

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon – published in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” has just been published by Theory, Culture and Society (Online First). The discussion from 1983 was previously only available as a recording in the Bancroft library at UC Berkeley. Katie Dingley … Continue reading →

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Durham IAS 2017-18 Structure Fellowship is now open – closing date 10th June 2016

Posted on May 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Durham IAS 2017-18 Structure Fellowship is now open – closing date 10th June 2016 The Institute of Advanced Study is Durham University’s flagship interdisciplinary research institute, providing a central forum for debate and collaboration across the entire disciplinary spectrum. The … Continue reading →

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