Foucault News

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

Überwachen und Strafen heute Bremen, 5.–7. November 2015 Frieder Vogelmann/Jörg Bernardy/Martin Nonhoff Programm Programm als PDF öffnen Durchgehend zu sehen ist der künstlerische Beitrag von Christoph Faulhaber: Jedes Bild ist ein leeres Bild (2014) Donnerstag, 5. November 2015 14:00–14:30 Uhr Begrüßung 14:30–15:30 Uhr Susanne Krasmann: Imagining Foucault. Über das digitale Subjekt und »visuelle Bürgerschaft« 15:45–16:45 …

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Foucault 4/13: LIVESTREAM You can also find it at this link This will also be available as a recording after the event October 26, 2015, 6:15pm Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University Alondra Nelson, Columbia University Moderators: Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University Jesús R. Velasco, Columbia University Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and …

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PDF programme Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Colloque international Quarante ans de Surveiller et punir Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 CNRS Paris 1) Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo) 19-21 novembre 2015 Paru en 1975, l’ouvrage de Michel Foucault Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison a fait …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Most of the most recent work on this book project has been on the section of Chapter Two discussing the Nu-Pieds revolts. An analysis of these, and the repression that follows, takes up the first seven lectures of Théories et institutions pénales. It’s a fascinating story, and nowhere else does…

Editor: Palgrave Macmillan have kindly offered a 30% discount to readers of Foucault News on books in their Foucault collection Works included in this collection are The Punitive Society and Michel Foucault: A Research Companion The full price on the latter work has been reduced since I last posted on this. I will repost again …

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Michel Foucault vu par son neveu La Novelle République, Communes, Vienne – Vendeuvre-du-Poitou – Vendeuvre-du-poitou, 23/09/2015 A l’occasion des journées du patrimoine, une exposition promenade était organisée dans les jardins de la maison familiale où Michel Foucault a écrit une grande partie de son œuvre durant les vacances. Pour Jocelyne Berge, présidente de l’association Le …

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Mitchell Dean, Foucault must not be defended, History and Theory, Volume 54, Issue 3, pages 389–403, October 2015 DOI: 10.1111/hith.10767 Available on academia.edu. You need to log in ABSTRACT This paper responds to and comments on many of the themes of the book under consideration concerning Foucault and neoliberalism. In doing so, it offers reflections …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There is an interview with Daniel Defert in German here, in which he discusses Foucault’s life and work, Adorno, May 68 and political activism, the AIDES group he founded after his death, the lecture courses and the material sold to the BNF, and confirms that the History of Sexuality, Vol IV,…

Editor: See Colin Gordon’s response from the comments section of this blog post below. Michel Foucault’s Iranian Folly Jeremy Stangroom on Michel Foucault’s political naiveté, TPM Online (The Philosopher’s magazine) Extract Everywhere outside Iran, Islam serves as a cover for a feudal or pseudo revolutionary oppression… The Left should not let itself be seduced by …

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