Jim Russell, The Existential Crisis of the American University, Pacific Standard, Mar 11, 2015 My favorite philosopher (Michel Foucault) wasn’t a philosopher so much as he was an innovative historian. Instead of casting his gaze at some well-defined era, Foucault studied the breaks between eras. Why did the model of the way the world works …
Gordon Hull, Parrhesia (Part 3): On Heidegger, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 30 March 2015 Unlike Derrida, with whom he had frequent, highly public polemics, Foucault says relatively little about Heidegger. Much of that is incidental: in a 1983 interview, for example, while talking about the postwar influence of Sartre, he notes parenthetically that …
Just in case you missed it: This post, Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality posted yesterday on Foucault News was the latest entry in the neoliberal debate.
Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault link to book details Published on 12 Mar 2015 Mark D. Jordan of the Harvard Divinity School discusses his recent publication, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault. Respondents include James Bernauer, S.J., of Boston College, Amy Hollywood and Mayra Rivera Rivera, both of Harvard Divinity School. 00:00 …
Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alexander Arnold on Critiquer Foucault: Les Années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 March 2015 JACOBIN RECENTLY PUBLISHED an interview with a little-known sociologist that provoked a wave of reactions. A young Belgian scholar named Daniel Zamora claimed that …
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“Foucault insults the police”, photograph by Elie Kagan from 17 January 1972, in Michel Foucault – Une journée particulière. It seems this photo was taken only moments after a much more famous one with Foucault, Deleuze and Sartre – such as appears here. The book has many more images, and bilingual English-French text.
Madness in Civilization: from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Reviewed by Salley Vickers, The Telegraph, 29 Mar 2015 I doubt whether many people other than social science students read Michel Foucault these days. Andrew Scull, whose review of Foucault’s The History of Madness in 2007 took the …
Colin Gordon, New additions to academia.edu site, March 2015 « Le possible : alors et maintenant : The possible then and now. » A new publication in a special issue of the French journal Cultures & Conflits on the theme of the critique of criminological reason. My piece is an essay in the history of …
The Heterotopia of Facebook Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’, Philosophy Now, Apr/May 2015 Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University room-mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. What started out as an on-campus online ‘hot or not’ tool resulted in the registration of a …
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