Foucault News

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

Judith Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author – E-book | Amsterdam University Press, 2017 The production, reception and discussion of fanfiction is a major aspect of contemporary global media. Thus far, however, the genre has been subject to relatively little rigorous qualitative or quantitative study-a problem that Judith M. Fathallah remedies here through close analysis of …

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Zoë Brigley Thompson,From safe spaces to precarious moments: teaching sexuality and violence in the American higher education classroom(2018) Gender and Education, 32(3), 395–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1458077 Abstract Critics of safe spaces in campus teaching often fail to understand the complexity of instructors’ practices in teaching controversial topics. Beginning with recent controversy regarding safe spaces in the higher …

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Farzaneh Haghighi, Is the Tehran Bazaar Dead? Foucault, Politics, and Architecture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) Book Description: To examine the political role of architecture, this book presents an original engagement with the largest center of attraction in Tehran, namely, its bazaar. Through a rigorous study, it goes beyond the conventional sociopolitical and architectural discourses of …

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Daniela Blei How the Index Card Cataloged the World – The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2017 […] The index card was a product of the Enlightenment, conceived by one of its towering figures: Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician, and the father of modern taxonomy. But like all information systems, the index card had unexpected political …

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Thoughts on the History of Telos, 1968–2018 By Timothy W. Luke, Telos Wednesday, July 11, 2018 On June 8, 2018, Telos celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at a special event held in New York City. Speakers included Telos Press publisher Maria Piccone, Telos editors Russell Berman, Tim Luke, David Pan, and Adrian Pabst, as well as Jacob Siegel, who delivered a talk …

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MSCP Evening School Sem 2 2018 The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the Evening School Semester 2 curriculum.  Both courses are 24 hours in length. As always significant discounts apply for those enrolling in multiple courses. If you have any questions which aren’t in our FAQs please email admin@mscp.org.au. Full Details …

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Daniel Verginelli Galantin, A presença de Georges Bataille no pensamento de Michel Foucault: entre o ser da linguagem, insurreição e atitude crítica, Doispontos, volume 14, número 1, pp. 213-228, abril de 2017 Resumo: Neste artigo propomos uma análise da presença do pensamento de Georges Bataille na obra de Michel Foucault. A partir de certos elementos …

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