Jessica Whyte on Michel Foucault and ‘the right to intervene’ Audio of talk on the Foucault-Blog Last year Jessica Whyte from the University of Western Sydney was a visiting scholar at the Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens in Zurich. On October 22, she held a lecture on “A Right of Private Individuals or a Responsibility of …
Otto Friedrich and Sandra Burton, France’s philosopher of power (1981), Time, November 16 1981, pp. 92-4 Includes some remarks by Foucault. With thanks to Stuart Elden for tracking a copy of this down on the net.
Stephen J. Ball Subjectivity as a site of struggle: refusing neoliberalism? (2015) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 18 p. Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1044072 Abstract This paper extends the author’s previous enquiries and discussions of governmentality and neoliberal policy technologies in a number of ways. The paper explores the specificity and generality of performativity as …
Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen, State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault, Stanford University Press, forthcoming January 2016 Publisher’s page State Phobia draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes …
Johansen, P.H., Chandler, T.L. Mechanisms of power in participatory rural planning (2015) Journal of Rural Studies, 40, pp. 12-20. Abstract This paper explores the specific mechanisms of power in participatory rural planning projects. It follows up on suggestions in planning literature about directing focus at the relational level in the assessment of power, rather than …
The Analytics of Power Today: A Masterclass with Mitchell Dean Date: Monday, Dec. 14th, 2015 Time: 8:45am—6:00pm Place: TBA, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia PDF of flyer About the Masterclass Over the last thirty years, we have witnessed three broad movements regarding power. The first is the displacement of the state from the centre …
The Neoliberalism Controversy and Saint Foucault Professor Mitchell Dean Copenhagen Business School PDF flyer WHEN Tues 15 December 2015 3pm – 5pm WHERE Room 116 Sir Llew Edwards Building (14) The University of Queensland St Lucia campus There is currently something of a controversy concerning Michel Foucault and neoliberalism, sparked by a book of that …
Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Stanford University Press, 2015, Now available. Publisher’s page This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In …
Editor: Reblogged from Stuart Elden’s site Progressive Geographies Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which underpin the State? A: It is true …
La bibliothèque de Foucault : Guide des papiers de travail de Michel Foucault. Inventaire EAD réalisé par l’EHESS et l’ENS Lyon Foucault’s working manuscript for Les mots et les choses With thanks to Stuart Elden at Progressive Geographies for this news
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