Message from Jesús Velasco and Bernard Harcourt We are launching a new website for Foucault 13/13! The new website will allow readers to go directly to all of the individual seminars and find there the video, your posts, and other resources. We think that it will make the articles and video far more accessible. Please visit …
BOURDIEU / FOUCAULT : UN RENDEZ-VOUS MANCATO? Convegno Internazionale – Napoli, 1-2 marzo 2016 Università Suor Orsola Benincasa & Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Convegno organizzato da Gianvito BRINDISI & Orazio IRRERA con il sostegno del Centre Michel Foucault e in partenariato con le riviste Kaiak Philosophical Journey & MF / materiali foucaultiani Blog: https://bourdieufoucault.wordpress.com Programma: 1 …
INVITATION Michel Foucault : le dire-vrai entre éthique et politique Rencontre autour de deux nouveautés foucaldiennes publiées aux Éditions Vrin : Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité / La parrêsia Daniele Lorenzini, Éthique et politique de soi en compagnie de Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini Judith Revel 20 février – 14h30 Librairie philosophique J. Vrin …
Lawrence D. Berg, Edward H. Huijbens, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University Forthcoming in The Canadian Geographer/le Géographe Canadien Special issue on Critical Reflections on Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography Guest edited by Linda Peake, Kate Parizeau, and Beverley Mullings Draft on Academia.edu Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical analysis …
Foucault 8/13 | Richard R.W. Brooks on Foucault’s “The Birth of Biopolitics” (1979) By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in concrete interactions …
Lars Thorup Larsen & Deborah Stone (2015): “Governing Health Care through Free Choice: Neoliberal Reforms in Denmark and the United States”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 40(5): 941-70. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3161162 Abstract We compare free choice reforms in Denmark and the United States to understand what ideas and political forces could generate such similar …
Un moment de l’histoire de la psychiatrie Mercredi 10 février 2016 , 9h-13h, Salle Beckett, 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris Un moment de l’histoire de la psychiatrie. Autour de l’ouvrage Foucault à Münsterlingen. À l’origine de l’« Histoire de la folie », Paris, EHESS, 2015, éd. par Jean-François Bert et Elisabetta Basso Matinée d’étude organisée par le …
Planting Foucault in Juárez. A Translator’s Reflections on the Story of Two Teenage Murderers Separated by Almost Two Centuries by John Washington “He donned his holiday clothes, had his sister sing a canticle beginning ‘O happy day! holy joy!” and, his mind wholly deranged, his weapon, an ax, in hand, he executed his mother, his …
Conor Heaney, ‘What is the University today?’, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 13 (2), 2015, 287-314 Full PDF here and here Abstract What is the University today? In this paper, a Foucault and Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired approach is taken. I argue that the University is, today, a site of ‘neoliberal governmentality’, which governs students and …
Lars Thorup Larsen (2015): “The problematization of fertility treatment: biopolitics and IVF policy in Denmark”, Distinktion 16(3): 318-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2015.1089520 Abstract: With the demographic challenges facing many European states, one would perhaps expect the state to invoke a biopolitical imperative to ‘faire vivre’, as Foucault termed it, and attempt to regulate birth rates. This expectation is …
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