Foucault News

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

Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education: Marc Spooner and James McNinch write about their new edited book – Social Theory Applied, 22 May 2018 Extract Marc Spooner and James McNinch write about their new edited book: Spooner & McNinch (2018) Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education(https://uofrpress.ca/Books/D/Dissident-Knowledge-in-Higher-Education) It is an exciting time of possibility as research approaches continue to …

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Foucault fiches de lecture ANR project: Foucault’s Reading Notes Transcrire les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault avec le logiciel Transkribus : compte rendu des tests Une collaboration internationale avec le projet européen READ/Transkribus a été mise en oeuvre pour la transcription automatique des manuscrits de fiches de lecture. Transkribus est un logiciel de reconnaissance …

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Review by Nicholas Till,  Times Higher Education. Olivia Bloechl, Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France University of Chicago Press, 272pp, £41.50ISBN 9780226522753Published 10 April 2018 [,,,] Bloechl turns to writers such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Agamben, who have all theorised the ways in which power operates not only through the …

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Nedim Karakayali, Burc Kostem, and Idil Galip, Recommendation Systems as Technologies of the Self: Algorithmic Control and the Formation of Music Taste (2018) Theory, Culture and Society, 35 (2), pp. 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417722391 Abstract The article brings to light the use of recommender systems as technologies of the self, complementing the observations in current literature regarding …

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“This Tale Is About You!”: On Bini Adamczak’s “Communism for Kids” – Los Angeles Review of Books, By Ross Wolfe JUNE 27, 2017 BINI ADAMCZAK’S Communism for Kids isn’t just for kids. The book is meant for readers of all ages, but its style is deliberately naïve. Adamczak addresses everyone as children in order to awaken their childlike …

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Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin) – RELIGIOUS THEORY Feb 5 2017 The following is an interview with the famed Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben conducted by journalist Antonio Gnolio. Originally published in La Repubblica on May 15, 2016.  the interview is translated from the Italian by Ido Govrin, whose bio is given …

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Oleg Bernaz, Une archéologie de l’épistémè de l’union, in Oleg Bernaz et Marc Maesschalck (éds), Approches philosophiques du structuralisme linguistique russe, Peter Lang, Bruxelles, 2018. Cette entreprise foucaldienne se déploie en trois étapes. Il s’agit premièrement d’analyser le statut du savoir de ce que Foucault appelle « l’épistémè moderne ». Nous montrons, à ce stade …

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Kehinde Wiley review – black souls sail between empowerment and exploitation | Art and design | The Guardian by Skye Sherwin, Sat 25 Nov 2017 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Editor’s note: old news Kehinde Wiley: In Search of the Miraculous is at Stephen Friedman gallery, London, until 27 January. The US artist picked as Obama’s …

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