Foucault News

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

Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy + Critique (2022) From 2022, the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Le foucaldien, published by the London-based Open Library of Humanities (OLH), and the affiliated foucaultblog appear under the new title GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE at genealogy-critique.net. The relaunch broadens the scope of the journal and its blog by including various approaches of historical-genealogical research and critical theory formation. GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE focuses …

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Kurtulus, G., İnci, M. “Merkantilizminin Disiplinci İktidar Projesi: Büyük Kapatilma [The Disciplinary Power Project Of French Mercantilism:The Great Confinement]”. Marmara University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences 43 (2021): 253-265 https://dx.doi.org/10.14780/muiibd.1052065 Open access An extended abstract in English can be found at the end of the paper. Öz Fransa, merkantilist doktrinin en önemli temsilcilerinden biriydi. …

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Nancy Luxon (Ed.) Archives of Infamy. Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton, University of Minnesota Press, 2019 What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand …

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PDF dépliant Michèle COHEN-HALIMI et Orazio IRRERA  Nietzsche, Foucault et la généalogie Université Paris 8 | Semestre 2 | mardi 12h15-15h (Les séances auront lieu sur Zoom et un lien sera transmis aux inscrits) Inscriptions / contacts : orazio.irrera02@univ-paris8.fr | m.cohenhalimi@gmail.com Séminaire organisé dans le cadre des activités pédagogiques et de recherche du Département de Philosophie …

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Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2021/2022 Continental Philosophy and Global Challenges Historical perspectives through practical engagements 09-11 June 2022 University of Warwick (UK) Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom Keynote Speakers: Prof. Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School) Dr Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich) TBA Call for Abstracts The aim of …

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Tobias, S. Critique as virtue: Buddhism, Foucault, and the ethics of critique (2021) Comparative and Continental Philosophy DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2021.2008846 Abstract This article examines Michel Foucault’s views concerning the ethical salience of critique and compares those views to the Buddhist Madhyamaka tradition. As a critic of the Enlightenment, Foucault’s approach to ethics vacillated between deconstructing moral …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Between 1967 and 1968. Louis Althusser and some of his students delivered a course at the ENS pitched as philosophy for scientists or non-philosophers. Some parts of the course have been published, including Alain Badiou’s Le concept du modèle in 1969 and Michel Fichant and Michel Pécheux, Sur L’histoire des…

Emerson, R.G. Critique of biopolitical violence (2021) Critical Studies on Security DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2021.2012395 Abstract Written 100 years ago, Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of violence’ offers an escape from the biopolitical spiral into death. It confronts the violent underside to a politics of life by refusing to justify force on set political-legal grounds, and, by offering readings …

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Mark D. Jordan, In Search of Foucault’s Last Words, Boston Review, 19 January 2022 Review: Confessions of the Flesh (The History of Sexuality 4) Michel Foucault, edited by Frederic Gros and translated by Robert Hurley Vintage, $17 (paper) When Foucault died from complications of AIDS, he left the series entitled History of Sexuality at least …

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Dobkowski, P. Technological exercises (2021) Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 5 (2), pp. 78-87. DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0018 Abstract The paper aims at setting the problem of the relation between technology, and the individual within the framework of Pierre Hadot’s idea of spiritual exercises. It compares two rivaling views of technology that originated in the …

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