Foucault News

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

A Photo Journey Through Italy’s Abandoned Nightclubs – Noisey By Laura Petillo, translated by Cristina Politano, May 14 2017 Discotex, a new documentary project, offers an audiovisual glimpse into the cathedrals from the glory days of Italian vinyl. […] Melillo’s journey is probably best summarized as a study in understanding a location as an extension …

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The Call for Panels and Roundtables of the 2018 Australian Anthropological Society conference, to be held 4-7 December at the Cairns campus of James Cook University,  has been extended till the 23rd of May. We welcome proposals that engage directly or indirectly with the conference theme – Life in an Age of Death. Conference website: https://www.aasconf.org/2018/ If you have …

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Philippe-Joseph Salazar, The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse (2018) Javnost – The Public, 25(1–2), 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2018.1423947 Abstract This paper suggests ways to examine the American Alt-Right as a community of discourse. It relies on Michel Foucault’s notion that discourse is marked by external procedures of prohibition, division and will to truth, and it shows …

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John Iliopoulos, The History of Reason in the Age of Madness: Foucault’s Enlightenment and a Radical Critique of Psychiatry Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 The History of Reason in the Age of Madness revolves around three axes: the Foucauldian critical-historical method, its relationship with enlightenment critique, and the way this critique is implemented in Foucault’s seminal work, …

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Connor Richards: Demonstrating Politics Through Music – Daily Utah Chronicle, November 17, 2017 Extract The tradition of using music to make social commentary is being kept alive by American post-metal band ISIS. Post-metal, as a genre, is described by ISIS frontman and lyricist Aaron Turner as being a “thinking man’s metal.” The 2004 album Panopticon …

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68, année philosophique ? (1/4) : Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida: les « nouveaux » philosophes LES CHEMINS DE LA PHILOSOPHIE par Adèle Van Reeth, 23/04/2018 podcast La philosophie française est étroitement associée à l’événement de MAI 68. Preuve en est : Les mots des philosophes descendent dans la rue et se retrouvent placardés aux murs! Frédéric …

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Lassen, I. Resisting dehumanization: citizen voices and acts of solidarity (2018) Critical Discourse Studies, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2018.1441038 Abstract Recent years have seen an increase in the influx of asylum-seekers in Scandinavia, and in Denmark this has led to ever-tighter immigration control. This article discusses emerging practices of refugee solidarity and resistance …

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