Foucault News

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

Spohrer, K. Negotiating and contesting ‘success’: discourses of aspiration in a UK secondary school (2015) Discourse, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1044423 Abstract The need to ‘raise aspirations’ among young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds has been prominent in UK policy debates over the last decade. This paper examines how this discourse is negotiated …

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Camargo, R., Ried, N. Towards a genealogy of pharmacological practice (2015) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 10 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-015-9648-3 Abstract Following Foucault’s work on disciplinary power and biopolitics, this article maps an initial cartography of the research areas to be traced by a genealogy of pharmacological practice. Pharmacology, as a practical …

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Continental Thought & Theory. A Journal of Intellectual Freedom Call for Papers Inaugural Issue Both the ideal and pursuit of intellectual freedom are important components underpinning this journal. The unrestricted expression of ideas is a desire and challenge facing us all. Particular fields of Continental theory have attempted to embrace and pursue this ethic as …

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Epilogue 2/13: The Stakes of the Balibar-Ewald Debate By Bernard E. Harcourt [This article draws on a longer essay titled “Reading Penal Theories and Institutions”] “Women, prisoners, conscripts, asylum patients, homosexuals have now begun a specific struggle of resistance against the particular forms of power, of constraint, of control that are exercised over them.” Michel …

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Michael James Rizza The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault, Noesis/The Davies Group, 2015 Notice on author’s blog An interview with the author, Michael James Rizza, in Hyperrhiz 12 This in-depth discussion of several canonical theorists — Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault — traces the trajectory of their ideas from one text …

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Programme École Doctorale de l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault IMEC PDF flyer 14, 15 et 16 octobre 2015 Contacts : Arianna Sforzini : arianna.sforzini@univ-paris-est.fr ; 0781684341 Judith Revel : jrevel@u-paris10.fr ; 0667320713 Mercredi 14 octobre : Train Paris Saint Lazare-Caen, départ 8h45 Arrivée Caen : 10h53, transfert à l’IMEC Déjeuner Après-midi, première séance Clara …

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Sandrine Alexandre, Compte rendu : Arianna Sforzini : Michel Foucault, une pensée du corps, Actu Philosophia, 6 mars 2015 Plutôt qu’une véritable réflexion sur une « pensée du corps », une analyse de la thématique du corps chez Foucault 1. Le corps, les corps – un thème tout à la fois central chez Foucault mais peu étudié …

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September 2023: See updated details on Progressive Geographies From: History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online | Progressive Geographies History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley is available online. I’d been looking for copies …

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Update on the Foucault 13/13 series Foucault 2/13: The Live Stream –28/09/15 at 6:15 EST (2015). Broadcasting from New York The live stream has now been posted as recorded content. Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972) TODAY at 6:15 EST.  Please tune …

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