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In a fascinating interview about Foucault, ‘The Materiality of a Working Life‘ (open access; original French), Daniel Defert talks about his daily routines, and how these were similar year round: https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/foucault-christmas.png No no, weekends didn’t exist! We would go to see art exhibitions on the Saturday afternoon, certainly, but the…
Patricia Ticineto Clough, Deleuze’s Foucault, Coils of the Serpent, issue 6 (2020): Control societies II: Philosophy, politics, economy, pp. 26-32 Open access Extract When in 2013, I taught a graduate seminar on Foucault at the Graduate Center, CUNY, my introductory lecture for the course was titled “Au Revoir to Deleuze’s Foucault.” Perhaps the lecture title …
With very best wishes for the festive season and for Christmas from Foucault News in this very different kind of year. Keep safe. From Ceci n’est pas Michel Foucault, Popper’s Mag, 14 MARS 2017
Heather Brunskell-Evans. Interview with Julian Vigo, Savage Minds, October 25 2020. Podcast Heather Brunskell-Evans discusses John Stuart Mill, Michel Foucault, identity politics, the current philosophical and legal discourses on sexual violence, and the politics of “kindness” with Julian Vigo. Focusing upon many of the misrepresentations of Foucault’s work in recent years, Brunskell-Evans offers ways in …
Editor: UK Politician Liz Truss’s comments unexpectedly led to Foucault trending on twitter in the UK. Charlotte Lydia Riley, Liz Truss doesn’t know about Foucault, but she also doesn’t care, The Guardian, 19 December 2020 Ironically, rightwing politicians have invented a zombie ‘postmodernism’ that cannot be killed by facts Academics in the UK have been …
You can find a few Foucault iphone covers on Redbubble Foucault – stylized iPhone Case & Cover Designed by jaxxmc, Redbubble site, December 2020 Another case designed by nodeeperblue
Moore, Alison Downham (2019). The Historicity of Sexuality: Knowledge of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Sexual Science. Modern Intellectual History, 1-24. DOI:10.1017/S147924431900026X Open access Abstract From the very moment the concept of sexuality emerged in nineteenth-century European medical and psychiatric thought, it became a topic of historicization. This historicization formed a consistent habit …
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This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence of studies of Foucault’s career and writings, this time looking…
GLOBAL BIOPOWER MARKET RESEARCH REPORT WITH OPPORTUNITIES AND STRATEGIES TO BOOST GROWTH- COVID-19 IMPACT AND RECOVERY Industry Research, 27-Oct-2020 Biopower is a term coined by French scholar, historian, and social theorist Michel Foucault. It relates to the practice of modern nation states and their regulation of their subjects through “an explosion of numerous and diverse …
Dominic Hewson, ‘All the time watched’: an analysis of disciplinary power within the Irish Direct Provision system (2020) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844001 Abstract Initially launched as a temporary measure, Direct Provision is two decades old and home to 7,400 asylum seekers. Since inception, it has been the target of internal and external …
