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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Morgana, M.S. Trajectories of resistance and Shifting forms of workers’ Activism in Iran (2021) International Labor and Working-Class History DOI: 10.1017/S0147547921000077 Abstract This article navigates ruptures and transformations in the processes of resistance performed by Iranian workers between two key events of the history of contemporary Iran: the 1979 Revolution and the 2009 Green Movement. …
Devitt, R. Toward a foucauldian literary criticism (2021) Poetics Today, 42 (4), pp. 471-498. DOI: 10.1215/03335372-9356809 Abstract The article argues for the renewed relevance of Foucault’s early essays on literature, written throughout the 1960s, given a return to anthropological reflection in so much literary theory today (especially through affect theory and “new” phenomenologies—both of which …
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