Foucault News

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

The Deleuze Seminars We are delighted to announce the virtual launch of a new archive site, The Deleuze Seminars  (deleuze.cla.purdue.edu), devoted to the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). The site has several goals: — To provide English translations and French transcriptions, many newly developed for the site, of the seminar lectures Deleuze …

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Matthew Hannah with Jan Simon Hutta and Christoph Schemann, Thinking Corona measures with Foucault, University of Bayreuth, 2020 The thoughts to follow have been formulated as a spur to discussion about some of the power relations manifested in state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic up to early April, 2020. While it touches themes covered by …

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COVID-19 Essays TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, March 23, 2020 Editorial Introduction: Writing in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Vulnerability to Solidarity This is a rapid response collection of essays. In the evening on Sunday, March 15 we began contacting Canadian-based scholars working in the field of biopolitics to write a short, …

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Davies, H.M. Living with asthma in 19th-century France: The doctor, Armand Trousseau, and the patient, Emile Pereire (2020) Journal of Medical Biography, 28 (1), pp. 15-23. DOI: 10.1177/0967772017741763 Abstract Major advances in the French medical system following the French Revolution have stimulated a rich historiography of which Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie …

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Jones, D.R., Patton, D. An academic challenge to the entrepreneurial university: the spatial power of the ‘Slow Swimming Club’ (2020) Studies in Higher Education, 45 (2), pp. 375-389.  DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1534093 Abstract The entrepreneurial university is a vague notion that has evolved by applying the concepts of enterprise and entrepreneurship to a university context. The blurring of enterprise with entrepreneurship has allowed …

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Editor: Many thanks to Mauro Bertani for alerting me to this compendium of links on the La Scuola di filosofia di Trieste site. Speciale Coronavirus Segnaliamo qui una serie di articoli interessanti che riflettono sulla situazione che stiamo vivendo in questi giorni. David Grossman, Dopo la peste torneremo a essere umani, “la Repubblica”, 20 marzo 2020 …

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