Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault « Un très beau feu d’artifice » Critique 2016/12 (n° 835) Présentation En 1978, devant des étudiants californiens, Michel Foucault rêvait à haute voix de « livres bombes » : ils ne tueraient personne, mais « disparaîtraient peu de temps après qu’on les aurait lus ou utilisés ». La philosophie comme Mission impossible …

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Ourahmoune, N. Embodied transformations and food restrictions: The case of medicalized obesity (2017) Journal of Business Research, 75, pp. 192-201. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.07.018 Abstract Weight loss surgery that mechanically restricts consumers’ bodies to limit their food intake is booming in a context of globesity (World Health Organization). Based on a Foucauldian analysis, this study contends that …

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“Sociétés carcérales. Relecture(s) de ‘Surveiller et punir’” sous la dir. de Isabelle Fouchard et Daniele Lorenzini Paris, Mare & Martin, 2017. Forthcoming Contributions de Luca D’Ambrosio, Isabelle Aubert, Delphine Böesel, Anne Brunon-Ernst, Cyrille Canetti, Guy Casadamont, Grégoire Chamayou, Gaëtan Cliquennois, Jean Danet, Jean-Marie Delarue, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Piergiorgio Donatelli, Corentin Durand, Isabelle Fouchard, Bernard Harcourt, Adeline …

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Chauviré, C. (2017). Foucault et Wittgenstein en parallèle. Critique, 845,(10), 848-863. https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2017-10-page-848.htm. Premières lignes Vouloir comparer Foucault et Wittgenstein « par-delà les clivages institués » est une louable entreprise, qui semble plus facile ailleurs qu’en France : aux États-Unis, Ian Hacking et Arnold Davidson avaient déjà préparé un tel rapprochement, que ces deux ouvrages collectifs …

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Jean-François Bert (dir.), avec la collaboration de Christian Grosse et Julien Cavagnis, Michel Foucault et les religions‪: Paris, Éditions Le Manuscrit (« Religions, Histoire, Cultures »), 2015. Foucault nous a donné de multiples potentialités pour repenser certaines des questions classiques posées par l’histoire et les sciences des religions. Cet ouvrage fait état des nombreux excursus …

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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…