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 …
Originally posted on Philosophical Naturalism:
“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 …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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…
Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick) – The Government of Desire: a Genealogical Perspective Introduction By Professor Peter Osborne Event Date: 4 February 2016 Audio recording on the Backdoor Broadcasting Company site
David Garland, Bars and stripes. Review of The Punitive Society. The Times Literary Supplement, 27 January 2016. The thinking and rethinking that led Michel Foucault to write his finest book. Le Collège de France, founded in 1530 and located in Paris’s Latin Quarter, is one of France’s elite institutions. It is a public institution of …
Foucault, la Sexualité, l’Antiquité sous la direction de Sandra Boehringer et Daniele Lorenzini PDF of flyer Ont contribué à cet ouvrage : Jean Allouch, Thamy Ayouch, Sandra Boehringer, Claude Calame, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Kirk Ormand, Olivier Renaut, Arianna Sforzini Éditions Kimé – Philosophie en cours – 196 pages ISBN 978-2-84174-739-9 – 20 € – …
Aldo Avellaneda, “Las escalas del poder político. Artes, redes y técnicas en los estudios de gubernamentalidad”, Astrolabio. Nueva Época, Núm. 14 (2015) Full PDF available Resumen: Este trabajo avanza la tesis de que los estudios de gubernamentalidad se han definido por la ausencia de un perímetro o dominio concerniente al poder político para realizar sus …
Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault, Foucault Studies, No. 20, pp. 291-306, December 2015 Foucault Studies is an open access journal. Extract You have been read as an idealist, as a nihilist, as a “new philosopher,” an …
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