Disposable Life – Jean Franco Histories of Violence is a multi-media forum dedicated to exploring the theoretical, empirical and aesthetic dimensions to violence. Founded and Directed by Dr. Brad Evans, this trans-disciplinary project provides an open access platform for the specific purposes of academic and public engagement; knowledge transfer; political discussion; philosophical reflection; along with …
A Weekend of Schizo-Culture Further info Press Release Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book The closing Schizo-Culture Weekend will activate many of the subjects touched on by SPACE’s current exhibition: Schizo-Culture: Cracks In The Street. 12–14 Dec 2014 SPACE, 129–131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH Free entry Discussions ranging across themes such as anti-psychiatry, philosophy and …
Rosie Meade, Foucault’s Concept of Counter-Conduct and the Politics of Anti-Austerity Protest in Ireland, Concept: The journal of contemporary community education practice theory, vol 5, no. 3, 2014 Further info and link to full PDF Abstract Since the announcement of the Irish recession in 2008, there has been much media and popular speculation regarding the …
Peut-on critiquer Foucault ? Entretien avec Daniel Zamora, Par Ballast – 3 décembre 2014 See earlier post on Critiquer Foucault See also a translation of this interview into English by Seth Ackerman on the Jacobin magazine site. (With thanks to Leonardo Goi for this link) Le titre est provocateur, soit. Mais à voir sa canonisation …
Jonathan Rée, Foucault, put to the question, Times Literary Supplement, 3 December 2014 Review of Michel Foucault, Wrong-doing, Truth-telling. The function of avowal in justice Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 344pp. University of Chicago Press. Throughout his frantic career as teacher, writer and activist, Michel Foucault kept …
Frieder Vogelmann, Im Bann der Verantwortung. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2014 Further info Über das Buch Dass wir verantwortlich handeln sollen, scheint eine selbstverständliche Norm zu sein, die kaum jemand infrage stellt. Doch das war nicht immer so – noch vor 200 Jahren war »Verantwortung« ein marginaler Rechtsbegriff. Was bedeutet die steile Karriere von Verantwortung für …
Philippe Sabot, Lire « Les mots et les choses » de Michel Foucault, PUF, 2nd edition, 2014 Comment lire et comprendre l’œuvre de Michel Foucault, dans laquelle il développe l’histoire des sciences humaines pour en comprendre l’élaboration, mais aussi pour en saisir les contraintes et les limites contemporaines. Quels sont les enjeux fondamentaux des Mots …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
It’s been two months since the last update on this book. I’ve been working, in and around lots of other things, on the manuscript, though more slowly than I’d hoped. I finished and published my review of On the Government of the Living and Wrong Doing, Truth Telling for Berfrois –…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My review of Foucault’s lecture courses Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is now available, open access, at Berfrois. It’s entitled ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth‘ and it tries to situate these courses in relation to various longer-term projects of Foucault’s. I also say…
Richard White, Foucault on the Care of the Self as an Ethical Project and a Spiritual Goal, Human Studies 37 (4):489-504 (2014) Further info Abstract In this paper, I examine Foucault’s ideas concerning the care of the self. What exactly is this ideal that Foucault describes in his last two books? Do these books represent …
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