Foucault News

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

Daniel Defert, Interview (in French), on Oxford University mosaic site Around 1968: Activism, networks, trajectories, Interview conducted in Paris 7 April 2008, audio recording and transcript. Interviewed by Robert Gildea and transcribed by Koisse Said English translation and audio […] RG : Et c’est quand vous étiez à Saint-Cloud que vous avez rencontré Foucault ? …

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Gilberto Conde, Fluid Modernity. The Politics of Water in the Middle East, Routledge, 2023 Book Description Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, …

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Ostrowicka, H., Wolniewicz-Slomka, K. Heterotopias of Nationalist Youth Organisations in Poland: Communitarisation and Entry/Exit System (2022) Qualitative Report, 27 (11), pp. 2528-2545. DOI: 10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5708 Abstract The article presents the results of an analysis of the discourse of nationalist youth organisations in Poland. The authors have attempted to reconstruct the common “us”of two youth organisations based …

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Décès de Daniel Defert : les réactions, Seronet, 10.02.2023 La disparition du sociologue et militant de la lutte contre le sida, Daniel Defert, décédé le 7 février à l’âge de 85 ans, a suscité de nombreuses réactions. Militants-es de AIDES, partenaires, personnalités médicales, associatives et politiques, etc., nombreuses ont été les réactions à l’annonce de …

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Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 1: What is an (AI) Author? By Gordon Hull, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 06 February 2023 Large Language Models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT burst into public consciousness sometime in the second half of last year, and Chat-GPT’s impressive results have led to a wave of …

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Michel Foucault on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and the Disappearance of the Human, Theoretical Puppets, 9 January 2023 This video explores the use (and potential misuse) of ChatGPT. The experimental dialog it features was created by means of this large language model. The result is baffling, seemlessly flowing in appearance but including some completely invented quotations …

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Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert, France Culture (radio), fév 2023. À propos de la série Une série d’entretiens proposée par Virginie Bloch-Lainé. Réalisation : Laetitia Coia. Prise de son : Yves le Hors. 5 épisodes. Tout au long de son existence, dont 20 années aux côtés du philosophe Michel Foucault, …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I have a review of Elisabetta Basso’s excellent Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955, translated by Marie Satya McDonough?(Columbia University Press,?2022) in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The review is unfortunately behind a paywall, so here are some of the key…