Foucault News

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

Colóquio Internacional 40 anos de Vigiar e Punir de Michel Foucault: “A visibilidade é uma armadilha” Local: Salão Nobre da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR – Curitiba, PR, Brazil Data: 11-13/11/2015 Programação Palestras do dia 11/11 às 14:30: André Duarte (UFPR) Ernani Chaves (UFPA) César Candiotto (PUC-PR) Palestra da noite …

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Deakin University’s European Philosophy and the History of Ideas research group (EPHI) is pleased to be able to host the following workshop: Problematizing the ‘Problem’ in 20th Century French Thought PDF flyer Where: Deakin University, Melbourne City Campus, Level 3, 550 Bourke St., Melbourne. When: Thursday December 10, 2015, 8.30am-5.30pm Workshop theme: The workshop will …

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Richard Groulx, Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société”, Paris: Editions l’Harmattan, 2015. La guerre est-elle un accident des sociétés ou appartient-elle à leur constitution même ? Telle est la question posée par Foucault dans …

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Jemima Repo (2015) The Biopolitics of Gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault’s mid-twentieth century genealogy of sexuality Argues that gender is an apparatus of biopower invented in the postwar period in order to regulate the reproduction …

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Rosie Smith, Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’. The Sociological Imagination, 2015 Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lecture series ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ is a wonderfully insightful book. It provides a detailed examination of the role of truth-telling throughout antiquity and its development into a key stone of contemporary European juridical proceedings. Specifically, Foucault investigates, within the discourse of …

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Presentación LOS USOS DE FOUCAULT EN LA ARGENTINA recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días Mariana Canavese Participan: Edgardo Castro, Ivana Costa, Horacio Tarcus y Hugo Vezzetti Jueves 5 de noviembre, 19 hs Librería Hernández Av. Corrientes 1436, C.A.B.A. Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en …

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Mariana Canavese, Los usos de Foucault en la Argentina. Recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días, Siglo XXI Editores, 2015 (English translation of text below) Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en el mundo; en sus obras hay palabras clave que atraviesan el discurso académico así …

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Miguelángel Verde Garrido, Contesting a biopolitics of information and communications: The importance of truth and sousveillance after Snowden, Surveillance and society, Vol 13, No 2 (2015) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v13i2.5331 Abstract This article aims to provide a novel conceptual understanding of the nature of the global mass surveillance policies and practices revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in collaboration …

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Michel Foucault and the smart city (2015) Francisco Klauser – Neuchátel University – from The Programmable City Video of paper Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s approach to power and governmentality, the paper explores the regulatory dynamics inherent in contemporary data-driven forms of regulation and management-at-a-distance of urban systems. More specifically, channelled through Michel Foucault’s concept of …

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