Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

When NOV 18, 2014 | 7PM Where Albertine Books 972 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10075 Further info Livestream link On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Collège International de Philosophie present Minds in Migration: a series of lively debates …

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This Teen Has An Inspiring Message For His Bully, Then Gets Totally Owned By The Bully’s Surprisingly Convincing Rebuttal In a spoof of a re-enactment style instruction video about bullying, the bully unexpectedly launches into a discourse on Foucault and power.

Foucault’s Risks by Anna Shechtman, Peter Raccuglia & Susan Morrow November 7th, 2014. Los Angeles Review of Books Editor’s note: On October 17–18, 2014, Yale University hosted a conference exploring the intellectual and political legacy of Michel Foucault. The Los Angeles Review of Books asked three Yale graduate students to respond to this conference by …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore, the discussion is with Colin Wright, Sophie Fuggle and Alex Vasudevan. This was a really useful experience for me – it provided a non-negotiable deadline…

Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker: Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts/EGS) Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2015 * * * In a contemporary …

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Originally posted on Stockerblog:
My latest post at the New APPS group blog Continuing from my last post on ‘Style of Living versus Juridification in Foucault’, there seems to be me to be something to be gained by thinking about Kierkegaard’s ethics here, even if Kierkegaard’s Christianity and Foucault’s aesthetic self seem rather distinct. The emphasis…

  CFP: Time Served: Discipline and Punish 40 Years On Nottingham Trent University is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference on Michel Foucault‘s “Discipline and Punish.” The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2015. 11-12 September 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK 40 years after it was first published in French, the impact …

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