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 …
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 …
Editor: My thoughts are with those of you reading Foucault News from Paris in the wake of Friday night’s terrible events.
Christian LAVAL, Luca PALTRINIERI, Ferhat TAYLAN, Marx & Foucault: Lectures, usages, confrontations, Éditions La Découverte, 2015 Marx et Foucault : deux œuvres, deux pensées sans lesquelles on ne peut saisir le sens de notre présent. Pas de théorie critique qui puisse se passer de leurs concepts et de leurs analyses. Et pas de luttes qui …
“An Archaeology of Adam Smith’s Epistemic Context” Iara Vigo de Lima and Danielle Guizzo Review of Political Economy, Published online: 26 Oct 2015 (DOI:10.1080/09538259.2015.1082819) Abstract: Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault’s archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault may …
Deleuze ABECEDAIRE, Fidélité Amitié, seconda parte: Foucault Deleuze describes his friendship with Michel Foucault With thanks to Colin Gordon for this link
CALL FOR PAPERS The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Sydney, Australia June 29-July 2, 2016 (hosted by the University of New South Wales) PDF of Call for papers We invite individual papers and roundtable proposals (4-5 panelists) on any aspect of Foucault’s work. Studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking are all welcome. …
Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault 06 oct. 1982, Antenne 2, Site l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel présentateur Christine Ockrent Christine OCKRENT interviewe l’actrice Simone SIGNORET et le philosophe Michel FOUCAULT sur la situation en Pologne, où le syndicat Solidarité vient d’être interdit par le gouvernement. – Simone SIGNORET, qui porte un badge du syndicat polonais “Solidarité”, …
André Glucksmann par Michel Foucault, Le Nouvel Observateur Le philosophe des “Maîtres penseurs” est mort à 78 ans. Celui de “Surveiller et punir” l’avait lu, pour “le Nouvel Observateur”, en 1977. Voici son texte, dans son intégralité. Article de Michel Foucault sur “les Maîtres penseurs”, paru dans “le Nouvel Observateur” du 9 mai 1977 La …
French philosopher Andre Glucksmann dies at 78, BBC News site See also The Guardian En français: Libération Andre Glucksmann, one of the most prominent figures in French philosophy, has died aged 78. An associate of Jean-Paul Sartre, he helped provide the intellectual underpinning for the student and worker revolts of May 1968. He was originally …
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