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

Expressions of Interest invited. Doc / Post-Doc Applied Research Program: Governmentality Of Migratory Flows (2017) GOVERNMENTALITY OF MIGRATORY FLOWS  GOMIF The European Public Law Organization through its Department of Hellenic Center of European Studies (EKEME) has applied for funding under the framework of Jean Monnet to support the launch of a one-year Doc/Post-Doc Program focusing on Migratory …

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Gabriel Rockhill, The CIA Reads French Theory: On The Intellectual Labor Of Dismantling The Cultural Left. The Philosophical Salon, 28 Feb 2017 Also in French on Mediapart, 14 avril 2017 Gabriel Rockhill, Quand la CIA s’attelait à démanteler la gauche intellectuelle française It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, Dina Dreyfus, 1965 (source: Institut national de l’audiovisuel, via Foucault Blog) As part of my research on the very early Foucault, I’ve been looking at the work of some of his teachers and other inspirations. One of those figures was Georges Canguilhem, who ended…

Edited by Philippe Bonditti, Didier Bigo et Frédéric Gros, Foucault and the Modern International. Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017 This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of …

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Juan David Cárdenas, Cinema as a foucauldian dispositif: An anachronistic and materialistic approach (2017) Palabra Clave, 20 (1), pp. 69-95. DOI: 10.5294/pacla.2017.20.1.4 Abstract In general terms it is possible to describe this research as a materialistic approach to cinema. Our grasp of film is focused on the perspective of films as a product of work, …

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Farrell, F. , Duckworth, V., Reece, M., Rigby, P. The moral frontiers of English education policy: governmentality and ethics within an alternative provision free school Educational Review Volume 69, Issue 3, 27 May 2017, Pages 349-365 Abstract This article is a critical poststructuralist analysis of Conservative led free school policy in England focusing on claims …

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