Foucault News

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

6/13 | REVOLT: FOUCAULT IN IRAN Daniel Defert (éditeur de Michel Foucault) Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (University of Illinois at Urbana) Judith Revel (Université Paris Nanterre) Moderated by John Rajchman, Daniele Lorenzini, and Bernard E. Harcourt December 14, 2017 from 6:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia University (410 West 117th Street, New York) See …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
One of the few translations made by Michel Foucault, and perhaps the most unusual, was an essay by literary theorist Leo Spitzer. It was published as “Arts du langage et linguistique”, in Leo Spitzer, Etudes de style, Paris: Gallimard, 1970, pp. 45-78. (There are several other pieces in there, translated by others. The text…

Crítica da representação e crise da ontologia: Foucault e Magritte – Philippe Sabot Facebook page No final de novembro de 2016, os Programas de Pós-Graduação em História e Filosofia da UFG organizaram uma jornada dedicada aos 50 anos de “As Palavras e as Coisas”. “Crítica da representação e crise da ontologia: Foucault e Magritte” foi …

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Editor: An unfortunate flip remark from former Australian Labor Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd: Foucault’s more painful than the knife in my back The Sunday Times, November 19 2017. PDF of article Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister ousted by his deputy, tells Leaf Arbuthnot his Oxford PhD course can be brutal too, Kevin Rudd, the …

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Olga Campbell-Thomson, The Soviet Reception of Selma Lagerlöf, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research Vol. 25 , Iss. 4, 2017 DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2017.1362590 Abstract The focus of this paper is Selma Lagerlöf’s literary presence in Soviet Russia. Despite being one of the most translated and published foreign authors in pre-revolutionary times, Lagerlöf made …

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Craig Owen, Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, (2017), ‘Pra homem, menino e mulher’? Problematizing the gender inclusivity discourse in capoeira, International Review for the Sociology of Sport , 54(6), 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217737044 Blog post on article by Craig Owen This paper uses Foucault’s understanding of power and discourse as the main theoretical focus. Abstract Capoeira is an …

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La pensée politique de Foucault sous la direction d’Orazio IRRERA et Salvo VACCARO, Paris, Editions Kimé (coll. “Philosophie en cours”), 2017, p. 248. Loin d’être considérée comme une simple notion appartenant au vocabulaire de la théorie politique, l’idée foucaldienne de la politique renvoie plutôt à une attitude généalogique fournissant un diagnostic du présent et restituant …

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Ce que Michel Foucault fait à la Photographie Sous la direction de Philippe Bazin, Setrogran ebook À propos du livre Table des matières La photographie et l’attitude critique du regard, Orazio IRRERA. La photographie comme expérience politique du paysage. À propos de Lewis Baltz et de Michel Foucault, Arianna LODESERTO. Figures de la folie – …

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Pezdek, K., Rasiński, L. Between exclusion and emancipation: Foucault’s ethics and disability (2017) Nursing Philosophy, 18 (2), art. no. e12131, . DOI: 10.1111/nup.12131 Abstract The aim of the study was to demonstrate how Foucault’s ethics, which we understand as a tension between exclusion and emancipation, helps both critically reassess two disability models that prevail in …

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Bert, J. (2016). Introduction à Michel Foucault. Paris: La Découverte. (Original edition 2011) Présentation Michel Foucault (1926-1984) aura été en France le plus novateur des maîtres à penser – maître sans programme qui a su offrir à ses lecteurs une « boîte à outils » qu’il expose par fragments dans ses entretiens, cours, articles et …

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