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

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS Deuxièmes Journées d’études / 2nd Workshop Epistémologie Historique: une histoire du présent Historical Epistemology: a history of the present 19-20-21 mai 2016 Ecole doctorale de Philosophie ED 280, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut des sciences Juridique & Philosophique de la Sorbonne – UMR 8130 Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine …

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Foucault 8/13: LIVESTREAM  Thursday, January 28, 2016 Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the livestream of the seminar here or below. We will also have a livestream overflow and discussion room at Columbia Law School, in Jerome Greene Hall …

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Bahar Aykan and Sanem Güvenç-Salgırlı (2015). Responsibilizing individuals, regulating health: debating public spots, risk, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 53, pp 71-92. DOI:10.1017/npt.2015.19 Abstract: Currently, a mass media campaign is underway in Turkey using a new communication means called the “ public spot” (kamu spotu ). This article concentrates on …

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