Category Archives: Writing

Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 4 – collaborative work and a complete draft of Chapter One on the Lectures on the Will to Know and related materials

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update, I’ve been working on various aspects of this project. The first was a return to some of Foucault’s collaborative projects around CERFI. Quite late in the drafting of Foucault’s Last Decade I removed most of the … Continue reading →

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Eleven thoughts on reading and citing

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stuartelden

At the beginning of reading on a topic, the most useful thing in a paper or book is often its bibliography. As you read more you’ll realise the key texts get cited again and again. You can tell you are … Continue reading →

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Book received – contributor copy of How We Write

Posted on October 1, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve just received my contributor copy of How We Write – the open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, which includes thirteen short pieces on academic writing. It looks great in its physical form. The book is available to buy in paperback, or free … Continue reading →

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How We Write – the open access collection reviewed and highlighted

Posted on September 15, 2015 by stuartelden

How We Write – the open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, which includes thirteen short pieces on academic writing – has been getting  a bit of attention already. It was chosen as a highlighted title on open access site Unglue.it and … Continue reading →

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How we Write – open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari: thirteen essays on academic writing

Posted on September 12, 2015 by stuartelden

How We Write – the open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, which includes thirteen short pieces on academic writing – is now available. While free to download, it was not free to produce. It is also available to buy in … Continue reading →

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Explorations of Style – a really useful writing resource, now with ‘how to use this blog’ page

Posted on September 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Explorations of Style is a really useful writing resource, and now has a comprehensive ‘how to use this blog‘ page which serves as a kind of table of contents or index.

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My sabbatical rules for writing

Posted on September 1, 2015 by stuartelden

I’m hoping to complete the manuscript for Foucault: The Birth of Power over the next 12 months – a sabbatical year and summer. I’ll be based in London most of the time. I’m also hoping to make considerable progress on the … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Posted on August 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now in production. Over the past couple of weeks I have turned in earnest to the book on the earlier period, entitled Foucault: The Birth of Power. The initial work on this book was taking all … Continue reading →

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‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received’ – stories in the Times Higher Education

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received‘ – stories in the Times Higher Education.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega on academic writing, and breaking with usual practices

Posted on August 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Raul Pacheco-Vega has several posts on his blog about academic writing. He’s long been an advocate of the model of writing every day, in his case in a carefully-scheduled block, often first thing in the morning. In these posts he … Continue reading →

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