Foucault News

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

Roberto Esposito, Institution Translated by Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Press, 2022. Offer Details: To get 20% off this title, go to http://www.politybooks.com and use code PPBK1 at checkout. Applies to paperback edition only. Offer expires 31 December 2022. The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very …

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See webpage as well “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” by Étienne Balibar 1/13 | CRITICAL THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCRETE UTOPIAS WITH ÉTIENNE BALIBAR Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Maison Française, Columbia University Etienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt read and …

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Interviews with Foucauldians – Dr Perry Zurn Overthink Podcasts Jan 19, 2022 In this video, philosophy professor David M. Peña-Guzmán interviews Dr. Perry Zurn about his work about Michel Foucault, prison abolition, and curiosity studies. This video was created as part of a series for a graduate seminar at San Francisco State University on the …

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Gordon Hull (2022) How Foucault Got Rid of (Bossy) Marxism, Critical Review, DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2121516 ABSTRACT Foucault distanced himself from Marxism even though he worked in an environment—left French theory of the 1960s and 1970s—where Marxism was the dominant frame of reference. By viewing Foucault in the context of French Marxist theoretical debates of his day, …

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Open HistoryThe Archaeology of Retrocomputing KULTURVERLAG KADMOS 2021 New Books network, Podcast, Sep 16, 2022 Today I talked to Stefan Höltgen about his book Open History: The Archaeology of Retrocomputing (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2021). How can historical computers be described properly from the viewpoint of computer science? By considering media archaeology’s theory of operative and thus …

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The Confessions of the Flesh The Institute of Theology and Religious Studies (ITER) of Alberto Hurtado University, Chile, organized the International Colloquium “The Confessions of the Flesh”, on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 September 2022. Link to program The Colloquium aimed at a critical reception of “The Confessions of the Flesh”, the fourth volume of …

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Lemke, T. (2022). Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality. Theory, Culture & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113737 Abstract The article focuses on the ability of some animals and plants to respond to changing environmental conditions by temporarily suspending metabolic processes. In contemporary biology, this state between life and death is commonly labelled ‘cryptobiosis’, combining the Greek kryptos …

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Foucault and Derrida in Couples Therapy with Freud Parrhesia Berlin Tuesdays 6-8 pm. Weekly from 18 October – 15 November (5 evenings) Course by Dr. Leon Brenner Where: Gerichtstrasse 45, 13347 Berlin-Wedding (courtyard). U-Bahn: U6 & U9 Leopoldplatz; S-Bahn: Wedding Description Michel Foucault’s innovative approach to madness in History of Madness greatly impacted the antipsychiatry …

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