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

VII Jornadas Debates Actuales de la Teoría Política Contemporánea El neoliberalismo a debate: hacia una genealogía del presente 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2016 Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Campus Miguelete, Universidad Nacional de San Martín Presentación: ¿Cómo interpretar el neoliberalismo? Más allá de cualquier salida fácil que lo reduzca a una doctrina económica o …

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Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Monetary Conformation of the Corporate Governmentality II The Monetary System and the Privatization Process, Journal of Governance and Regulation, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2016, 75-90 Abstract The global governance of large corporations or corporate governmentality changed over time through the penetration of the economy in all aspects of society but which has …

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Colin Koopman, Historicizing the Critique of Power 20th March 2015 | 14:15 – 15:00 Conference paper, audio podcast on the Voice Republic site Colin Koopman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also 2014-15 Humanities Research Fellow and 2015-16 Wulf Professor of Humanities. He has published widely on genealogy, …

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A. Kiarina Kordela, Monsters of biopower: Terror(ism) and horror in the era of affect (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 193-205. Special Issue: The Power of the Monstrous Update 12 July 2026: The DOI is listed as https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2016113104 but link does not resolve to article – so see link above. Abstract This paper argues that …

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Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Re-reading the Riots: Counter-Conduct in London 2011 (2016) Global Society, 30(2), 320–339. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2016.1143348 Abstract The riots that took place in England in August 2011 have widely been described as destructive, senseless and without purpose. This article, taking inspiration from Michel Foucault’s later work on revolt as counter-conduct, argues for a new understanding of …

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 15 – revision and resubmission of the manuscript, and table of contents

17 May 2016


stuartelden's avatarProgressive Geographies

While I had made some changes to the manuscript after submission, and again after receiving the reports, on Sunday evening I finished four long days of thoroughly revising the text and resubmitted it to the publisher.

Just as I was beginning the review process for the second book I received a very nice letter from Daniel Defert, Foucault’s long-term partner, saying how much he’d liked Foucault’s Last Decade. This was obviously a wonderful thing to receive, and gave me a great motivation to finish up this second study.

The key changes are to the Introduction, which is restructured and some parts extensively revised. I wrote a bit about the work here and here. I think the Introduction now more clearly sets up the argument, approach and sources of the work. I also made lots of changes through the text, and added some sentences to the Conclusion. While the reports…

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Berthold Molden, Resistant pasts versus mnemonic hegemony: On the power relations of collective memory (2016) Memory Studies, 9 (2), pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015596014 Abstract The politics of history and memory in any society are determined by the relations of forces between hegemonic master narratives, defiant counter-memories, and silent majorities whose historical experience is rarely articulated in …

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Journée d’études internationale MICHEL FOUCAULT ET LA SUBJECTIVATION Organisée par mf / materiali foucaultiani (Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli) avec le soutien de l’EA 4395 « Lettres, Idées, Savoirs » de l’Université Paris-Est Créteil 1er juin 2016, 9h – 18h30 Université Paris-Est Créteil, Salle des Thèses Argumentaire Cette journée d’études internationale se …

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Ecole Doctorale de Philosophie ED 280 Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne Institut des sciences Juridique & Philosophique de la Sorbonne UMR 8103 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Programme 2èmes Journées d’études Epistémologie Historique: une histoire du présent Historical Epistemology: a history of the present 19-20-21 mai 2016 Inscriptions sur https://episthist.hypotheses.org/ Jeudi 19 mai Salle …

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