Foucault News

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

Découvrez cette exposition en vous promenant Jardin de l’ancienne maison de la famille Foucault Saint-Martin-la-Pallu Découvrez cette exposition en vous promenant Jardin de l’ancienne maison de la famille Foucault, 19 septembre 2021-19 septembre 2021, Saint-Martin-la-Pallu. Profitez de cette exposition-promenade composée de panneaux, de tableaux-citations, de montages sonores et vidéo. Venez découvrir le jardin de l’ancienne …

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Oolite Arts Announces Summer Exhibition: “Where There is Power” MIAMI BEACH, Florida, USA, Artfix Daily, July 13, 2021 This summer starting July 21, Oolite Arts presents “Where There is Power”, an exhibition about the many ways that artists access, spy upon, expose, memorialize, and occasionally trouble the machinations of power. Where there is power is …

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Paul Michael Garrett, Dissenting Social Work. Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic, Routledge, 2021 Book Description This book, from one of international social work’s leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting. Addressing the troubled times in which we find ourselves, Garrett’s book examines a broad range …

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Hillier, Jean, and Jason Byrne. “Is Extermination to Be the Legacy of Mary Gilbert’s Cat?” Organization 23, no. 3 (May 2016): 387–406. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508416629455. Abstract Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Now that marking is complete, and the end of term is here,?it’s been great to regain time and focus for?this work. Some of the nice comments I had about?The Early Foucault?helped to encourage this. I’m not tired of this book, but I am impatient to move it forward, at least…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Alain Brossat et Daniele Lorenzini (dir.), Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault – Vrin, August 2021 Michel Foucault est un philosophe qui, loin de plancher sur d’autres philosophes, avance avec et contre eux – et contre pas moins qu’avec, au vu du caractère distinctement agonistique de sa pensée.Dans…

Weinreich, Spencer J. “Panopticon, Inc.: Jeremy Bentham, Contract Management, and (Neo)Liberal Penality.” Punishment & Society, (July 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211023457. Abstract This essay revisits Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, perhaps the foundational figure of the study of the prison, to recover a dimension of the project wholly omitted in Michel Foucault’s canonical reading in Discipline and Punish. Nowhere does …

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