Foucault News

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

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Now that marking is complete, and the end of term is here,?it’s been great to regain time and focus for?this work. Some of the nice comments I had about?The Early Foucault?helped to encourage this. I’m not tired of this book, but I am impatient to move it forward, at least…

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Alain Brossat et Daniele Lorenzini (dir.), Foucault et… Les liaisons dangereuses de Michel Foucault – Vrin, August 2021 Michel Foucault est un philosophe qui, loin de plancher sur d’autres philosophes, avance avec et contre eux – et contre pas moins qu’avec, au vu du caractère distinctement agonistique de sa pensée.Dans…

Weinreich, Spencer J. “Panopticon, Inc.: Jeremy Bentham, Contract Management, and (Neo)Liberal Penality.” Punishment & Society, (July 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211023457. Abstract This essay revisits Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, perhaps the foundational figure of the study of the prison, to recover a dimension of the project wholly omitted in Michel Foucault’s canonical reading in Discipline and Punish. Nowhere does …

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Ali Laïdi, Les batailles du commerce mondial. Penser la guerre économique avec et contre Michel Foucault, PUF 2021 Résumé À partir des outils conceptuels légués par Michel Foucault, il s’agit d’établir l’existence de la guerre économique, un concept rejeté jusqu’à présent par le monde académique et médiatique. Mais depuis l’élection de Trump en 2016, – …

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Jonathan Fanara, « La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux » : techno-surveillance, Le Mag du Ciné, 6 juin 2021 Review in English Dans La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux (Delcourt/Encrages), Yvan Greenberg, Joe Canlas et Everett Patterson se penchent sur les technologies de surveillance et la manière dont nos données privées sont exploitées …

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Kovačević, V., Malenica, K. Heterotopia and Postmodern Community in the Context of Migration and Relationship Towards Migrants (2021) Italian Sociological Review, 11 (1), pp. 63-86. DOI: 10.13136/isr.v11i1.415 Abstract This work approaches the issue of migration of the Arab population to Europe within the idea of postmodern community and the concept of heterotopia. The social and …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s text on René Magritte, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, was published first in French in 1968 (reprinted in?Dits et écrits?as text 53), and then in a revised and expanded form as a book in 1973. The 1973 book was translated as?This is not a Pipe by James Harkness in…

The Politics of Time: Beyond Spatial Issues of Politics in MOS (Management and Organisation Studies) Discussion starts at 5 minutes 50 ESSEC Business School Panel I: “The Politics of Time: Beyond Spatial Issues of Politics in MOS” Politics and power are much more explored in and through space than time. Is it a Foucauldian legacy? …

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