Foucault News

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

Journée d’étude Michel Foucault – IEA Collegium de Lyon/ENS de Lyon – 6 June 2017 PDF program « ‘Le temps de l’histoire’ : Michel Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse », coorganisée par l’IEA Collegium de Lyon, le programme EURIAS et le laboratoire Triangle UMR 5206 – ENS de Lyon Elle …

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Orazio IRRERA,« De l’archéologie du savoir aux archives coloniales. L’archive comme dispositif colonial de violence épistémique.” Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, n. 3, 2016, pp. 51-70 Résumé: Dans cet article il sera question de problématiser l’archive comme lieu d’intersection de matrices épistémologiques et de matrices juridico-politiques, et de …

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Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Shiraz Diaries & Jallad: A Novel on Contemporary Iran. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 20, 2016) Featuring two interconnected stories set in contemporary Iran, Shiraz Diaries & Jallad tells the story of a young girl’s growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran and her traumatic experiences during and after the Islamic Revolution. Jallad (executioner), …

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Gordon Hull, Republican Thanatopolitics, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog, 8 May 2017 Foucault reminds us that biopolitics is describes a kind of power structure according to which some will be compelled to live (or have their lives as members of a favored population optimized), while others will be allowed to die. As he …

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Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, Society for contemporary thought and the Islamicate world (SCTIW) 3/21/2017 “Foucault and Iran” by Banu Bargu (New School for Social Research) 3/23/2017 “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes” by Anthony C. Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College / CUNY Graduate Center) 3/28/2017 “Foucault: Against …

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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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