CFP: Session – Geographies of Parrhesia: Resistance, Critique, and the Formation of Self and Other Link Federico Ferretti, University of Bologna Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham Session in Royal Geographical Society with IBG Conference, August 2022, Newcastle University. The influence of Michel Foucault on geographical research is long-standing, widespread, and much critiqued. While his philosophy …
Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology: Arts and Sciences, Historicizing Boundaries Venice, 9-10 June 2022 Confirmed keynote speakers: Peter Galison (Harvard) Caroline Jones MIT Abstract [for full abstract see here] The 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology is dedicated to exploring new ways of approaching the historical, conceptual, methodological, and technical relations between the …
Jusmet, L.R. Constructing oneself as an ethical subject for a true life: The proposals of Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault and François Jullien [Construirse como sujeto ético para una vida verdadera. Las propuestas de Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault y François Jullien] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 159-172. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1372 Abstract This work analyses the line of thought …
Sapsford, R. Contradictory regimes of practice: Constructs and discourses in an open prison (2021) Theory and Psychology DOI: 10.1177/09593543211061507 Abstract Using concepts from Kelly and Foucault, analysis of interviews in the mid-1990s with staff in an English open prison explores how contrasting discourses are reconciled. Two superficially antagonistic discursive formations within prison practice are described: …
Kate Wagner, Remembering Ricardo Bofill, Architect of Otherworldly Social Housing, Curbed, 28 Jnuary 2022 His buildings fill dystopic films, but function more like colorful utopias. […] For many people, their introduction to the work of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill comes from the image of his grand social housing project, the monumental and colonnaded Espaces d’Abraxas, standing …
Jarryd Bartle, In defence of Michel Foucault, Unherd, January 27, 2022 Blaming French theory for the extremes of the American Left has been a popular line for that last few years. Public intellectual Jordan Peterson has blamed “postmodern neo-Marxism” for the rise of a hypersensitive yet coercive activism, connecting the term to everything from safe …
Jelena Radonjic, Office, What Office? How Our Concept Of Work Is Changing Forbes, Dec 7, 2021, Most of us have become well-versed in the ways of new work with Zoom routines in our neat home offices. While we are far from post-pandemic times, we are gradually stepping back into office spaces and the question is …
Discussions on Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (U of Minnesota Press, 2021), eds. Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn and trs. Perry Zurn and Erik Beranek. **Conversations in Atlantic theory: Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on Intolerable: . Podcast (January 2022) **Recorded Zoom Conversation with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on …
Palti, E.J. Deleuze’s Foucault: on the possibility of an outside of knowledge/power (2021) History and Theory, 60 (4), pp. 20-35. DOI: 10.1111/hith.12234 Abstract During 1985 and 1986, Gilles Deleuze directed a seminar on Michel Foucault’s work at the University of Paris 8 at Vincennes/St. Denis. The course was divided into three parts, one dedicated to …
Boyle, C. The (in)credible fiscal prize: A critical examination of the discourse of evidence in early childhood intervention (2021) Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood DOI: 10.1177/14639491211059164 Open access Abstract In playing with the concept of ‘credibility’, this article presents a critical examination of the discourse of evidence and the programming of upbringing in early intervention …
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