Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March.

2015 - Elden-low res26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney (website; poster)

 

Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics10 March 2015, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales (website; poster)

 

Geometric Workshop11 March 2015, 10-4pm, “Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics”, workshop, Room 101 LAW Building, University of New South Wales (website; poster) – This will look The Birth of Territory in the morning and an unpublished paper in the afternoon. Workshop is supported by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Environmental Humanities Group and the Biopolitical Studies Research Network at UNSW.

Many thanks to Adam David Morton and Matt Kearnes for arranging these visits. I’ll post further details when available. Details of all future talks are here.

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Heidegger Black Notebooks, Vol IV 1942-48 – soon out and review

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

There is an English translation of the Italian review here – and it appears that the missing notebook from 1945-46 has been found.

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The fourth book of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ is due out very soon – Anmerkungen II-V. Again, there is a missing notebook in the sequence. The volume is not on the Klostermann site, but is on Amazon.de. There is an Italian review here, with some excerpts translated at Enowning – to which I owe this information. Sounds like some really grim reading…

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Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de literature forthcoming in English

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

imageFoucault’s La grande étrangère: À propos de literature is forthcoming in English translation with University of Minnesota Press as Language, Madness and Desire: On Literature, scheduled for May 2015.

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.

The associations between madness and language—and madness and silence—preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot before taking up questions about Artaud’s literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing—particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette—he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on literary self-consciousness

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Foucault in Tunisia – three hard-to-find lectures from Cahiers de Tunisie

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

1989_Folie_et_civilisation_Foucault_a_Tunis_1971_les_cahiers_de_tunisie_149-150_43-59Thanks to the archival work of Natalie (@160B), here are three lectures Foucault gave in Tunisia. The Manet one was later published in a more polished form in La peinture de Manet which was then translated into English as Manet and the Object of Painting (and an illustrated version of the French is available open access here). There was talk, several years ago, of the other two being published in similar form, but this did not happen. The introduction, by Dominique Séglard, was published instead in Foucault Studies. On Foucault in Tunisia more generally, see this piece by Rachida Boubaker-Triki in Rue Descartes (both in French, both open access).

“Structuralisme et analyse littéraire”, Les cahiers de Tunisie, Vol 39 No 149-50, 1989, pp. 21-41. (dated 4/2/1987, which is clearly wrong, should be 1967)

”Folie et civilisation”, Les cahiers de Tunisie, Vol 39 No 149-50, 1989, pp. 43-59 (24/4/1971).

“La peinture de Manet“, Les cahiers de Tunisie, Vol 39 No 149-50, 1989, pp. 61-89 (20/5/1971).

Séglard notes in his piece that these transcriptions, which were unauthorised by Foucault’s estate, are not entirely accurate. They should be used with caution.

More hard-to-find texts on this site here; a few requests for help still here – fewer than before, thanks to readers.

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Call for Papers: 13th Aberystwyth Lancaster Graduate Colloquium, 27 – 29 May 2015, Aberystwyth University

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: 13th Aberystwyth Lancaster Graduate Colloquium, 27 – 29 May 2015, Aberystwyth University

Confirmed Participants:
Jenny Edkins (Aberystwyth) Nick Vaughan-Williams (Warwick)

Established in 2002, the Aberystwyth Lancaster Graduate Colloquium (ALGC) has established itself as the UK’s leading forum for critical approaches to international politics. It brings together students and leading scholars from a variety of critical approaches to the international, such a poststructuralism, postcolonialism, feminism and Marxism. Open to graduate students in all stages of their research from various disciplines, such as politics, geography, history, sociology, cultural studies and so on, in all stages of their research, the colloquium provides a friendly environment for young scholars to present their ideas and receive feedback on their research from their peers and from established scholars.

This year’s colloquium aims to cross disciplinary boundaries, offering panel presentations and key note addresses from leading academics in several disciplines, as well as workshops on critical methodologies by leading scholars in various fields.

We are inviting abstracts of no more than 200 words to be submitted by 28 February, to be sent to algc2015@aber.ac.uk

Please include email address, institutional affiliation, and year of study.

Organisers: Lydia Cole, Yvonne Rinkart, Prithvi Hirani

Supported by the Critical and Cultural Politics Research Group (CCP) and Aberystwyth PostInternational Group (APIG)

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault in Spanish – a bit more information

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

michel-foucault-y-el-poderA little more on Deleuze on Foucault in Spanish: There is a different translation of three lectures – 17 Dec 85; 7, 14 Jan 1986 in Michel Foucault y el poder.

This therefore overlaps with the two volumes previously mentioned:-

El saber [Knowledge] – lectures of 22, 29 Oct 1985; 5, 12, 19, 26 Nov 1985; 10, 17 Dec 1985.

El Poder [Power] – lectures of 7, 14, 21, 28 Jan 1986; 25 Feb 1986; 4, 11, 18, 25 March 1986; 8, 15 April 1986

I’ve been told a third volume in the Cactus series, on Desire, is forthcoming. I suppose this will include the remaining lectures – from the Paris-8 site there were also lectures on 22, 29 Apr 1986 and 6 May 1986.

See the 1985 course listing with links to audio files here; and the 1986 one here.

Thanks to comments on Facebook and Twitter for helping with this – updates certainly welcome.

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Affect Theory Conference: Worldings / Tensions / Futures – October 2015 in Lancaster, PA

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Affect Theory Conference: Worldings / Tensions / Futures – October 2015 in Lancaster, PA

10685501_10152753655229285_170942157806459001_nOver the course of the last decade especially, it is safe to say that affect, studies of affect, and theories of affect have steadily risen to prominence within and across a variety of academic disciplines, artistic practices, and research approaches. Not without some amount of controversy and pushback, the relatively rapid movement of affect toward the forefront of critical attention has been opening new paths of intellectual inquiry, reshuffling longstanding debates and conceptual formations, and inspiring imaginative cross-fertilizations of disciplinary and aesthetic genres. Now seems a perfect time to pause and take stock. So, let’s do that.

Gathering together many of the leading and emerging voices that have helped give contour and texture to the contemporary discourses of affect, this three-day conference – with a lively mix of plenaries and selected panel-streams – will be devoted to addressing affect from a broad spectrum of vantage points.

Located in and around Millersville University’s Ware Center in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this setting will provide a truly intimate and distinctive opportunity to engage in-depth and at length in discussions about the past, present and future state(s) of affect study. Duke University Press will publish work drawn from this conference in a follow-up volume to the Affect Theory Reader (Gregg & Seigworth, 2010).

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Heidegger Black Notebooks, Vol IV 1942-48 – soon out and link to Italian review

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

The fourth book of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ is due out very soon – Anmerkungen I-V. Again, there is a missing notebook in the sequence. The volume is not on the Klostermann site, but is on Amazon.de. There is an Italian review here, with some excerpts translated at Enowning – to which I owe this information. [Update – a full English translation is available here.] Sounds like some really grim reading…

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault in Spanish too

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault I 01 Deleuze_Foucault_IIAs well as the Italian, thanks to readers on Twitter and Facebook for alerting me to Spanish versions of these lectures – a second volume, on Power, has been published as well as the first on Knowledge.

Update: A third volume on Desire is forthcoming in Spanish, and a Turkish translation of at least the first is forthcoming.

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault – first available in Italian; any other languages forthcoming?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by stuartelden

deleuze-corso-su-foucaultWhile looking for something else, I found that the first of Deleuze’s courses on Foucault has been published in Italian. Are any other languages forthcoming? I can’t find a French version, though of course the recordings of the lectures are available online, and transcriptions have been made of some lectures.

So, is the Italian a translation of the transcribed lectures, or of some forthcoming official publication in French? Any other information would be appreciated.

[Update: two volumes are available in Spanish]

There look to be quite a few reviews of the Italian online; and an extract is here.

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