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

Danny Sullivan, What Foucault Can Teach Us About the Schismatic Growth of Comicon Culture | Seattle Weekly, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 […] Philosopher Michel Foucault identified the dangers that face any group as knowledge of its subject matter grows. His The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972) is an attempt to discover the systems of thought that …

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Daniele Lorenzini Benjamin/Foucault : histoire, discontinuité, utopie, Phantasia, Volume 7 – 2018 Résumé Cet article se propose de montrer qu’un dialogue « à distance » entre Benjamin et Foucault peut être construit à partir d’au moins trois thèmes. Premièrement, leur conception du moment présent, ou plus précisément, du rapport vertical que le présent institue avec …

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Tim Christiaens, Financial Neoliberalism and Exclusion with and beyond Foucault, Theory, Culture & Society, December 22, 2018 DOI: 10.1177/0263276418816364 Abstract In the beginning of the 1970s Michel Foucault dismissed the terminology of ‘exclusion’ for his projected analytics of modern power. This rejection has had major repercussions on the theory of neoliberal subject-formation. Many researchers disproportionately …

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Appel à Communications/Call for Papers 5èmes Journées d’études sur l’Épistémologie Historique La philosophie des sciences du vivant. Biologie et médecine au prisme de l’épistémologie historique. Paris, 16-17-18 mai 2019 École doctorale de Philosophie ED 280 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (UMR 8590, Paris 1/CNRS) Centre de …

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Cadernos Nietzsche versão impressa ISSN 1413-7755versão On-line ISSN 2316-8242 Cad. Nietzsche vol.39 no.2 São Paulo maio/ago. 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2316-82422018v3902cer Open access Nietzsche, a genealogia, a história: Foucault, a genealogia, os corpos Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro Professor da Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil. RESUMO Este artigo analisa as quatro primeiras partes do …

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New issue of Critical Inquiry: Davidson and His Interlocutors Volume 45, Number 2 | Winter 2019 Open access Articles in this issue include amongst others David Halperin, Queer Love Daniele Lorenzini, The Emergence of Desire: Notes Toward a Political History of the Will Michel Foucault, Structuralism and Literary Analysis

Aaron Hanlon, Postmodernism didn’t cause Trump. It explains him. The Washington Post, 31 August 2018 Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were debatable, that individual perspectives mattered most, that shared meaning was …

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Réécouter Psychiatrie (1/4) : L’Histoire de la folie par Michel Foucault, Podcast, Chemins de la Connaissance, Radio France 10/12/2018 En 1961, Foucault soutient sa thèse intitulée “Histoire de la folie”. Objet de nombreuses critiques, elle n’est pas tant une histoire de la psychiatrie que celle des pratiques adoptées du Moyen Âge à Freud. Qu’est-ce qui …

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