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

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‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration’ (“Nanmin mondai ha 21 seiku minzoku daiidô no zenchô da”, an interview by H.Uno, originally published on 17 August 1979, in Shûkan posuto, pp. 34-35) republished under the title “Le problème des réfugiés est un présage de la grande…

Forum: Foucault and Neoliberalism, History and Theory, Volume 54, Issue 3, October 2015. 1. Introduction (pages 367–371) Matthew Specter 2. Can the critique of capitalism be antihumanist? (pages 372–388) Michael C. Behrent 3. Foucault must not be defended (pages 389–403) Mitchell Dean 4. Neoliberalism through Foucault’s eyes (pages 404–418) Serge Audier

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Monstruosités critiques et surdités politiques. Réponse à un article publié dans Clarin à propos de La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault (Une version de cet article en espagnol est également publié sur ce site. A Spanish version of this piece is also available on this website) En 1971, Michel Foucault publie un …

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Spohrer, K. Negotiating and contesting ‘success’: discourses of aspiration in a UK secondary school (2015) Discourse, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1044423 Abstract The need to ‘raise aspirations’ among young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds has been prominent in UK policy debates over the last decade. This paper examines how this discourse is negotiated …

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Camargo, R., Ried, N. Towards a genealogy of pharmacological practice (2015) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 10 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-015-9648-3 Abstract Following Foucault’s work on disciplinary power and biopolitics, this article maps an initial cartography of the research areas to be traced by a genealogy of pharmacological practice. Pharmacology, as a practical …

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Continental Thought & Theory. A Journal of Intellectual Freedom Call for Papers Inaugural Issue Both the ideal and pursuit of intellectual freedom are important components underpinning this journal. The unrestricted expression of ideas is a desire and challenge facing us all. Particular fields of Continental theory have attempted to embrace and pursue this ethic as …

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Epilogue 2/13: The Stakes of the Balibar-Ewald Debate By Bernard E. Harcourt [This article draws on a longer essay titled “Reading Penal Theories and Institutions”] “Women, prisoners, conscripts, asylum patients, homosexuals have now begun a specific struggle of resistance against the particular forms of power, of constraint, of control that are exercised over them.” Michel …

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Michael James Rizza The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault, Noesis/The Davies Group, 2015 Notice on author’s blog An interview with the author, Michael James Rizza, in Hyperrhiz 12 This in-depth discussion of several canonical theorists — Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault — traces the trajectory of their ideas from one text …

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Programme École Doctorale de l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault IMEC PDF flyer 14, 15 et 16 octobre 2015 Contacts : Arianna Sforzini : arianna.sforzini@univ-paris-est.fr ; 0781684341 Judith Revel : jrevel@u-paris10.fr ; 0667320713 Mercredi 14 octobre : Train Paris Saint Lazare-Caen, départ 8h45 Arrivée Caen : 10h53, transfert à l’IMEC Déjeuner Après-midi, première séance Clara …

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