Foucault News

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

Kollosche, D. Criticising with Foucault: towards a guiding framework for socio-political studies in mathematics education (2015) Educational Studies in Mathematics, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10649-015-9648-5 Abstract Socio-political studies in mathematics education often touch complex fields of interaction between education, mathematics and the political. In this paper I present a Foucault-based framework for socio-political …

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Daniele Lorenzini, Éthique et politique de soi. Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2015 Introduction et Table des matières Quel(s) rapport(s) est-il possible de tracer entre l’éthique et la politique? Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot et Stanley Cavell, à partir de trois positions philosophiques très différentes, ont élaboré des …

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PDF flyer and program Jornadas Internacionales “Foucault y la cuestión del derecho” Faculty of Philosophy Complutense University of Madrid 3 and 4 December 2015 JUEVES 3 de Diciembre (Salón de Grados; Ed.A) SESIÓN DE MAÑANA 9:30 Inauguración: Rafael Orden (Excmo. Decano de la Facultad de Filosofía), Rogelio Rovira (Dir. Dpto. de Filosofía Teorética) y José …

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Engels, K.S. Biopower, Normalization, and HPV: A Foucauldian Analysis of the HPV Vaccine Controversy (2015) Journal of Medical Humanities, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-015-9361-5 Abstract This article utilizes the Foucauldian concepts of biopower and normalization to give an analysis of the debate surrounding the controversial administration of the HPV vaccine to adolescents. My …

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La marche de l’histoire. Michel Foucault, France Inter Radio Invité Philippe Artières Historien, chercheur au CNRS Il avait mesuré que l’intervention des intellectuels passait de plus en plus par l’essai bref et le plateau télé et encore n’a-t-il pas connu l’économie du web 2.0. Puisque la discontinuité est de mise, il disait par provocation qu’advenait …

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International Workshop Program Biopolitics, Bioscience and Governmentality November 19th, 2015 Room “auditorio DEC”, Faculty of Engineering Diego Portales University (Vergara # 432, Santiago) See also this link Panel 1 (14:00 a 15:45 hrs): Claudio Maino and Álvaro Jiménez (Universidad Paris 5 (Descartes)): The challenges to think mental health in democratic societies: What can the biopolitical …

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Open University December philosophy seminar Dr Luca Sciortino (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds) ‘Styles of Thinking and Epistemic Relativism’ 2pm December 2nd 2015 Meeting Room 5, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes Abstract In the 1980s Ian Hacking put forward the ‘styles project’, as he called it, whose central idea is that there exist distinct styles …

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Michel Foucault: The rights and duties of international citizenship (2015) The front page of the Open Democracy Site, 14 November 2015 Also includes links to the following items: Michel Foucault “The refugee problem is a presage of the great migrations of the twenty first century”, 1979. Translated by Colin Gordon. Colin Gordon, The drowned and …

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