Foucault News

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

CALL FOR PAPERS The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Sydney, Australia June 29-July 2, 2016 (hosted by the University of New South Wales) PDF of Call for papers We invite individual papers and roundtable proposals (4-5 panelists) on any aspect of Foucault’s work. Studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking are all welcome. …

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Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault 06 oct. 1982, Antenne 2, Site l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel présentateur Christine Ockrent Christine OCKRENT interviewe l’actrice Simone SIGNORET et le philosophe Michel FOUCAULT sur la situation en Pologne, où le syndicat Solidarité vient d’être interdit par le gouvernement. – Simone SIGNORET, qui porte un badge du syndicat polonais “Solidarité”, …

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André Glucksmann par Michel Foucault, Le Nouvel Observateur Le philosophe des “Maîtres penseurs” est mort à 78 ans. Celui de “Surveiller et punir” l’avait lu, pour “le Nouvel Observateur”, en 1977. Voici son texte, dans son intégralité. Article de Michel Foucault sur “les Maîtres penseurs”, paru dans “le Nouvel Observateur” du 9 mai 1977 La …

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French philosopher Andre Glucksmann dies at 78, BBC News site See also The Guardian En français: Libération Andre Glucksmann, one of the most prominent figures in French philosophy, has died aged 78. An associate of Jean-Paul Sartre, he helped provide the intellectual underpinning for the student and worker revolts of May 1968. He was originally …

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Colóquio Internacional 40 anos de Vigiar e Punir de Michel Foucault: “A visibilidade é uma armadilha” Local: Salão Nobre da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR – Curitiba, PR, Brazil Data: 11-13/11/2015 Programação Palestras do dia 11/11 às 14:30: André Duarte (UFPR) Ernani Chaves (UFPA) César Candiotto (PUC-PR) Palestra da noite …

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Deakin University’s European Philosophy and the History of Ideas research group (EPHI) is pleased to be able to host the following workshop: Problematizing the ‘Problem’ in 20th Century French Thought PDF flyer Where: Deakin University, Melbourne City Campus, Level 3, 550 Bourke St., Melbourne. When: Thursday December 10, 2015, 8.30am-5.30pm Workshop theme: The workshop will …

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Richard Groulx, Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société”, Paris: Editions l’Harmattan, 2015. La guerre est-elle un accident des sociétés ou appartient-elle à leur constitution même ? Telle est la question posée par Foucault dans …

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Jemima Repo (2015) The Biopolitics of Gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault’s mid-twentieth century genealogy of sexuality Argues that gender is an apparatus of biopower invented in the postwar period in order to regulate the reproduction …

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Rosie Smith, Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’. The Sociological Imagination, 2015 Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lecture series ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ is a wonderfully insightful book. It provides a detailed examination of the role of truth-telling throughout antiquity and its development into a key stone of contemporary European juridical proceedings. Specifically, Foucault investigates, within the discourse of …

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Presentación LOS USOS DE FOUCAULT EN LA ARGENTINA recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días Mariana Canavese Participan: Edgardo Castro, Ivana Costa, Horacio Tarcus y Hugo Vezzetti Jueves 5 de noviembre, 19 hs Librería Hernández Av. Corrientes 1436, C.A.B.A. Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en …

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