Foucault News

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

Seminar of Historical Epistemology (SHE) “Digital humanities e Archeologia del sapere: quale dialogo?” Università degli Studi di Milano, Aula Malliani Milano, 9 Novembre 2017 Facebook page on workshop ——————————– 9.00-9.30 Apertura lavori 9.30-10.30_Utopia archeologica e Digital Humanities : verso una storia materiale delle idee? Luca PALTRINIERI – Université des Rennes 1 11.00-12.00_Penser la matérialité du …

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Who’s Looking At You? BBC 4 podcast, 17 October 2017 Editor’s note: Apart from the Panoptic photo, not sure how much Foucault content is here, but may be of interest in the wake of Foucault’s work. Once upon a time, total surveillance was the province of George Orwell and totalitarian states, but we now live …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Stefanos Geroulanos, Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present is now out with Stanford University Press. This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils…

Sergio Resende Carvalho,Ricardo Rodrigues Teixeira, Politics of life itself and the future of medical practices: dialogues with Nikolas Rose (Part 3), Interface – Comunicação, Saúde, Educação On-line version ISSN 1807-5762 Interface (Botucatu) vol.21 no.60 Botucatu Jan./Mar. 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622016.0848 Extract This is the third and last interview with Nikolas Rose which we sought to explore important …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This was not a source I knew about before: Daniel Defert, “Lettre à Claude Lanzmann”, Les Temps Modernes, No 531-533, Vol 2, 1990,  pp. 1201-1206. It’s a short piece in a massive 1400 page collection devoted to Sartre, ten years after his death. Defert was asked for a contribution but replied…

Special Section: Foucault and religion: Critical engagements (2017), Critical Research on Religion, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2017 Contents A genealogy of critique: From parrhesia to prophecy Tom Boland, Paul Clogher First Published February 10, 2017; pp. 116–132 Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience: Peter Schaefer’s Radical Pietism as counter-conduct Elisa Heinämäki First Published May …

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Stevens, Jeremy and Fuller, Glen. Journalistic challenges of the public and private: Exploring professional and ethical norms [online]. Australian Journalism Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Jul 2017: 113-125. Authors’ note: This article develops the idea of ‘commentary as method’. ‘Commentary’ is derived from Foucault’s Discourse on Language and related texts and reworked into a method …

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Roberts, J.L. Obsessional subjectivity in societies of discipline and control (2017) Theory and Psychology, 27 (5), pp. 622-642. DOI: 10.1177/0959354317716308 Abstract Drawing on the work of the later Foucault, especially that concerning disciplinary power and bio-power, as well as Deleuze on the emergence of “societies of control,” this article traces the trajectory of obsessional subjectivity …

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Brioni, S. A station in motion: Termini as heterotopia (2017) Italian Studies, 72 (4), pp. 443-454. DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2017.1370792 Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s definition of heterotopia, the article analyses the filmic and literary representation of Stazione Termini, Rome’s main train station. The Fascist architectural project, which mirrors an idea of the nation as homogeneous, monolithic, …

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APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS COLLOQUE “FOUCAULT FACE A LA NORME” Faculté de droit d’Orléans, Jeudi 15 et vendredi 16 novembre 2018 Le colloque “Foucault face à la norme” s’inscrit dans une série de colloques ambitionnant de questionner un auteur, sa trajectoire de vie autant que son oeuvre, sur la question des normes telle qu’elle se pose …

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