Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar (Eds), Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, University of Chicago Press, 2015 Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a …
A Foucault News exclusive. Governmentality studies observed Interview with Colin Gordon by Aldo Avellaneda and Guillermo Vega September 2015 Full PDF of article Interviewers’ introduction Colin Gordon is considered one of the key references of what, in a rather generic although recognizable way, has come to be called “governmentality studies”. He has been involved since …
Foucault @ 90 International Conference 22nd-23rd June 2016 University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, Scotland, UK Further information and registration PDF conference flyer Call for Papers This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-84). This interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect on the work of Michel …
Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Hugs and behaviour points: Alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth (2015) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2015.1102340 Abstract In England, alternative education (AE) is offered to young people formally excluded from school, close to formal exclusion or who have been informally pushed to …
Colin Koopman, Pragmatism as Transition. Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty, Columbia University Press, 2015 Pragmatism is America’s best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself. Classical …
Foucault 7/13: WEBCAST/LIVESTREAM David Armitage, Adam Tooze, and Jeremy Kessler will discuss Foucault’s seventh lecture series at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978) on Monday, December 7, 2015, at 6:15pm EST. Please watch the livestream here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by David Armitage, Adam Tooze, and Jeremy Kessler, and the framing …
Dorrestijn, S. The Care of Our Hybrid Selves: Ethics in Times of Technical Mediation (2015) Foundations of Science, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9440-0 Abstract What can the art of living after Foucault contribute to ethics in relation to the mediation of human existence by technology? To develop the relation between technical mediation and …
Mifsud, D. The policy discourse of networking and its effect on school autonomy: a Foucauldian interpretation (2015) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1092427 Abstract Policy discourse officially operates to distinctly influence public perception in an irrevocable and normalising manner. In a Maltese educational scenario of gradual decentralisation and …
Carte Semiotiche Annali 4 – Call For Papers in Italian, English, French and Spanish PDF with full details LE IMMAGINI DEL CONTROLLO. Visibilità e governo dei corpi La redazione di Carte Semiotiche vi invita ad inviare proposte di contributo in italiano, inglese, francese o spagnolo (max. 2000 caratteri spazi inclusi o 500 parole) corredate di …
The Philosophy Research Initiative at Western Sydney University will be running a new MA in Continental Philosophy from 2016 (to replace Honours, which will no longer be available from 2016). Members of the group have special expertise in Kant and post-Kantian German thought from Hegel to Nietzsche, the traditions of 20th-century French and German philosophy …
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