Roundup of media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair (mostly French) | Progressive Geographies Some of the media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair. Will add other pieces as I see them – do add comments if you know of more. Michel Foucault, culture physique – FranceCulture podcast Il est comment le dernier Michel …
18th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle John Carroll University Cleveland, OH April 6-8, 2018 Foucault Circle homepage: For more information please contact Edward McGushin Friday, April 6th 3:30-5pm: Visit to Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA): gallery tour 6pm: optional social event at CMA Dinner on your own Saturday, April 7th: 8:30am: Coffee and light …
I’ve changed the look and theme of Foucault News. My last design was starting to show its age! The banner picture is of two chimera on the roof of Notre Dame – looking out pensively over Foucault’s city.
Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens, Normality: A Critical Genealogy, University of Chicago Press, 2017 The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine …
Kélina Gotman, Choreomania. Dance and Disorder, Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. Oxford University Press. Description When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements …
Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
I will be summarising and commenting Les Aveux de la chair, Foucault’s fourth volume in the history of sexuality tetralogy philosophically. In this first substantial post I wish to show how the first few pages conform to the theses that can be extracted from the sketch for an introduction appended in…
Damjanov, K. and Crouch, D. (2018) ‘Orbital Life on the International Space Station’ Space and Culture First Published January 9, 2018 DOI: 10.1177/1206331217752621 Abstract The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest object in the earth’s orbit and currently the only environment that harbors human life outside the planet. This habitable satellite operates as a sophisticated scientific …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There is a Warwick news release of information about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair, in which I briefly explain how the book fits within Foucault’s work and its importance. I’ve already agreed to write a longer review of the book, and did a first interview on it yesterday evening. ?
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
It’s officially published tomorrow, but I’ve just picked up a copy of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality – Les Aveux de la chair [Confessions, or Avowals, of the Flesh]. Some of the book is available to view here (essentially just the editor Frédéric Gros’s foreword). The back cover simply has…
GÜRHAN ÖZPOLAT, “Between Foucault and Agamben: An Overview of the Problem of Euthanasia in the context of Biopolitics” (2017) 7(2) Beytulhikme International Journal of Philosophy 15 Abstract In this paper, considering the fact that special forms of dying and killing are mostly seen in a shadowy zone or blurred boundary between life and death, I …
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