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Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault, edited by Anthony Faramelli, David Hancock, Robert G. White – Bloomsbury 2018. Unfortunately only hardback and expensive e-book. In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term “heterotopias” to signify “all the other real sites that can be found within the culture” which…
‘Now the critique of knowledge I would propose does not in fact consist in denouncing what is continually – I was going to say monotonously – oppressive under reason, for after all, believe me, insanity (déraison) is just as oppressive. Nor would this political critique of knowledge consist in flushing out the presumption of power …
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New Perspectives Issue 1/2018 Click HERE to DOWNLOAD Full Issue PDF Editorial The World Is (Not) Heated Benjamin Tallis Full PDF article (free) Special Section The Prague Agenda Michal Smetana, Anastasia Kazteridis, Matthew Kroenig, Sadia Tasleem, Richard Price, Jeffrey Fields, Jason Enia, Angela Kane, Dieter Fleck Full PDF Article (free)…
Foucault Sphere A new facebook page in French by Pierre Bouyer with extracts from Foucault’s work and posts of other original material, blog style.
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Editor: I have recently updated my extensive, but by no means comprehensive, bibliography of works on Foucault and Education . If there is anything missing, please send me an email and I will add it in. Items in languages other than English are welcome.
Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon review – can you escape your upbringing? Steven Poole, The Guardian, Fri 3 Aug 2018 […] This book is also a touching memoir of sexual awakening, and a gallery of philosophical ideas and characters, as Eribon explains with passion what inspired him as a teenager about the writings of Jean-Paul …
10 artists to watch at SummerWorks 2018 BY GLENN SUMI, STEVE FISHER, KATHLEEN SMITH AUGUST 4, 2018 2:18 PM, nowtoronto.com BLUEMOUTH INC. One of the city’s original site-specific ensembles, this fiercely eclectic company – which now splits its time between Toronto and Brooklyn – always uses movement, text, design and setting in intriguing ways. Their …
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It’s taken longer than anticipated for me to return to the work on The Early Foucault. The last update was back in April. Through the spring the book on Canguilhem was drafted, revised and then submitted to Polity Press on 4 May. Following the reader reports the revision was sent off…
‘What I wanted to do was in the order of philosophy: can one reflect philosophically on the history of knowledge as historical material rather than reflecting on a theory or a philosophy of history. In a rather empirical and clumsy fashion, I envisaged a work as close as possible to that of historians, but in …
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