Conference at Harvard University on Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh 5 December 2019 In February 2018, the fourth and final volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality project—Confessions of the Flesh—was published for the first time in French by Éditions Gallimard. This is an extraordinary publishing event since the book was not supposed to have …
Foucault franco-allemand : lectures actuelles en dialogue 14 octobre 2019 11h-19h Journée organisée par le CEVIPOF, l’Ecole docorale de Sciences po et le Centre Michel Foucault. 11h-13h : Panel 1 : Current work by doctoral students « Foucault’s moral monsters: gender and the reversal of penal norms » Amélie Bescont, Sciences Po, CEVIPOF « Autonomy, …
Michael, K.S. Wearing your heart on your sleeve: the surveillance of women’s souls in evangelical Christian modesty culture (2018) Feminist Media Studies, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1490915 Abstract A few years ago, a rash of online debates over whether Christian women should wear yoga pants spread across white evangelical blogs and social media. …
Michael Clarke, Governmentality and the politics of exclusion in Xinjiang, East Asia Forum: Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, 17 September 2019 China is undertaking a program of mass incarceration of the Uyghur population in its far north-western province of Xinjiang (East Turkestan to Uyghurs) in a system of region-wide …
Hay, J. The automated states, automated government, and self-automation of the ‘smart’ appliance: three questions about refrigerators (2018) Media International Australia, 166 (1), pp. 57-69. DOI: 10.1177/1329878X17739014 Abstract This essay considers the automation of the everyday through ‘smart’ domestic appliance, specifically the current regime of smart refrigerators. The essay revisits and rethinks perspectives about media …
Jeihouni, M., Hooti, N. “Because it is my name!”: Miller, Proctor, and Parrhesia in The Crucible (2018) Orbis Litterarum, 73 (2), pp. 103-126. DOI: 10.1111/oli.12158 Abstract This article offers a Foucauldian reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Employing Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, we argue that John Proctor holds truth-telling as a moral virtue and accordingly …
THINKING THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE Instructor: Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte Editor: Update 12 February 2026. Link above is to the page archived on the Wayback Machine. The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Monday, Tuesday 19:00-22:00 14,15 October – 11,12 November – 9,10 December, 2019 18 hours (3 weeks) The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore 9, rue de Médicis …
Bourse de recherche. Centre Michel Foucault Dossier et fiche de candidature L’IMEC et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à chercheur pour l’attribution de la deuxième Bourse IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault L’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) préserve et met en valeur une collection exceptionnelle d’archives dédiée à l’histoire de la pensée et de la …
Bjelić, D.I. Toward a Genealogy of the Balkan Discourses on Race (2018) Interventions, 20 (6), pp. 906-929. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2018.1492955 Abstract The ongoing racist reception of immigrants by post-communist states previously known to be class conscious, internationalist, and egalitarian naturally raises the question: how is racism possible in societies with no colonial or interracial experience? It …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Thankfully, this book manuscript has been the main focus again of work over the past month. I’ve been continuing to work on Foucault’s relation to Dumézil, on Foucault’s time in Warsaw and Hamburg, and other things in the later 1950s. I had a couple of days in Paris where I…
