Laura Rice, Of Irony and Empire. Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa, SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies, 2007 Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa. Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly …
Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité. Précédé de La parrêsia. Édition et apparat critique établis par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini. Introduction par F. Gros. Vrin – Philosophie du présent 320 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2656-4 – février 2016 À l’automne 1983, Michel Foucault prononce, à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, un cycle …
Vandaele, J. What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation (2016) Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 24 (1), pp. 76-92. DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2015.1047386 Abstract Though the issue of translation occasionally surfaces in Foucault Studies, it remains an area that deserves more attention. To that effect, I briefly introduce some basic concepts of Translation Studies and then …
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The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nanuet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s involvement in the parallel health group and other activist work are…
Embodying Temporalities: Deep Time, Genealogy, Exile The Collegium Phaenomenologicum will convene for its 41st annual session in Città di Castello, Italy, from July 11–29, 2016. The Collegium is intended for faculty members and advanced graduate and postdoctoral students in philosophy and related disciplines. The core of the program consists in a series of lecture courses, …
The Colonial and Settler Studies Research Network and The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research present Biopolitics: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable How and in what ways is the body a site of intervention for power in colonial and postcolonial situations? How do race and gender affect modes of governmentality and representation? This roundtable considers these and …
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“An experiment with a panoptic system would suffice to find out; different things could be taught to different children in different cells; we could teach no matter what to no matter which child, and we would see the result. In this way we could raise children in completely different systems,…
Lacan contra Foucault Subjectivity Universalism Politics Part 1 of 4 parts Seminar “Lacan contra Foucault Subjectivity, Universalism, Politics at The American University of Beirut Arts and Humanities (Mellon Grant) Faculty of Arts and Sciences in December 2015
Mitchell Dean, Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie, Stanford University Press blog, 19 Feb 2016 In order to understand any major thinker and their legacy, it is important to consider their context—a truism that is very hard to put into practice, especially when the thinker in question belongs both …
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Translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade are forthcoming in Korean with Kyungsung University Press and Nanjing Press respectively. These might be the first of my authored books to appear in translation, since potential translations of The Birth of Territory into Portuguese by a Brazilian press and into Korean have stalled, though…
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