Arpad Szakolczai, Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Routledge, 1998 About the Book Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a …
Christopher Mayes, The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices, Routledge, 2016. Forthcoming About the Book A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use …
Séminaire Michel Foucault : « Foucault et la question sociale » Année 2015-2016 Flyer – PDF Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Lille 3 Séance n°1 (UPEC) – 18/12/15 Campus centre, Salle des thèses (bâtiment P, rdc), 14h-18h Présentation générale du séminaire Alex Feldman (U. Penn) : ” Foucault et la sociologie de la connaissance ” Ivan Ponton …
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 …
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