Foucault News

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

Interview with Leonard Lawlor © Leonard Lawlor and Figure/Ground Dr. Lawlor was interviewed by Laureano Ralón. Figure/Ground, December 11th, 2017 Extract I think there is something to be said – a clarification at least – with regards to that comment by Foucault, which says something along the lines that The Logic of Sense and Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception are as …

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Mark G. E. Kelly, For Foucault. Against Normative Political Theory, SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy. This book comprises a series of staged confrontations between the thought of Michel Foucault and a cast of other figures …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In this short video, Marcelo Hoffman discusses his review essay of Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues’s book Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias (Michel Foucault in Brazil: Presence, Effects, Resonances). His full review is available online and in the journal Theory, Culture & Society. The book sounds fascinating…

Colloque International : « Michel Foucault, les Pères et le sexe » 1-2-3 février 2018 À l’Auditorium Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris, les 1er et 2 février 2018 Entrée libre À l’Amphithéâtre Turgot, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, le 3 février 2018 Entrée sur inscription : Philo-Recherche@univ-paris1.fr Comité d’organisation Philippe Büttgen, Philippe …

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SUBJECTIVITÉ ET RÉVOLUTION 19 décembre 2017, de 10h à 13h30 Columbia Global Centers – Paris 4 rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris À quelles conditions les révolutions et les soulèvements peuvent-ils constituer des matrices de subjectivation ? Quelle place faut-il accorder, au sein de ces expériences visant la transformation du monde social et politique, à la …

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Sverre Raffnsøe, Peter Miller, Andrea Mennicken: “The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies”, Organization Studies, First Published December 14, 2017 DOI: 10.1177/0170840617745110 Abstract Since the establishment of Organization Studies in 1980, Michel Foucault’s oeuvre has had a remarkable and continuing influence on its field. This article traces the different ways in which organizational scholars have engaged …

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Jacopo Martire, A Foucauldian Interpretation of Modern Law. From Sovereignty to Normalisation and Beyond, Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Addresses a surprisingly overlooked Foucauldian conundrum: what is the logical relationship between modern law and power? Jacopo Martire investigates the development of modern law in conjunction with what Foucault termed biopolitical forms of power. He gives you …

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The Birth of Austerity. German Ordoliberalism and Contemporary Neoliberalism Edited by Thomas Biebricher and Frieder Vogelmann, Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 Description Ordoliberalism and the ‘Freiburg School’ have gained traction in contemporary political economy in response to two factors: a rising interest in governmentality studies and the banking, financial and sovereign debt crisis …

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FOUCAULT ON PAINTING By Catherine M. Soussloff University of Minnesota Press | 176 pages | November 2017 ISBN 978-1-5179-0242-1| paper | $25.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0241-4 | cloth | $100.00 Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with European art history critically addresses present concerns about the mediated nature of the image in the digital …

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