Foucault News

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

Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.Edited by David Kreps, Ashgate, February 2015 Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible. With discussions of Latin American revolutionary politics, …

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Heterotopia Remixes Vol. 2 Astral Plane Recordings . Play list Music available on site 1.Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf — Public Love (Air Max ’97 Bootleg)04:22 2.Kid Antoine — Nightvision (Mike G Remix)05:13 3.Rushmore — Moment X (Victoria Kim’s Kowloon Edit)03:48 4.Celestial Trax — Illuminate (Iglew Remix)05:01 5.Victoria Kim — Apgu Freeway (Rushmore Remix)04:11 6.Arkitect — Foucault’s …

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Securing the social: Foucault and Social Networks | Tiziana Terranova – Academia.edu. From Foucault and the History of Our Present, edited by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli Extract What do we talk about when we talk about social networks? Is it an actu-ally existing social reality, a structuralist paradigm in the social sciences, …

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Patrick West Foucault: from libertine to neoliberal , Spiked, 3 July 2015 Was the French philosopher really a Reaganite in poststructural clothing? Was Foucault a neoliberal?’ So asked an accusatory headline the other day in Le Nouvel Observateur, France’s centre-left news weekly. It’s a grave allegation. ‘Saint Foucault’, as the article sarcastically calls him, was …

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Faire l’histoire du pouvoir “psy” après Foucault Further info. Journées suisses d’histoire 2016 Bureau du congrès Section d’histoire, Faculté des Lettres Université de Lausanne Anthropole, Bureau 5156 CH-1050 Lausanne Les travaux sur les disciplines psychiques se rangent en deux catégories : les démarches critiques du pouvoir « psy* » (psychiatrie, psychanalyse, psychologie, psychothérapie) d’une part, …

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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. …

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Hope, A. Biopower and school surveillance technologies 2.0 (2015) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2014.1001060 Abstract In recent years the proliferation, speed and reach of school-based surveillance devices has undergone what could be labelled as a revolution. Drawing upon Foucault’s concept of biopower to explore the disciplining of …

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Colin Gordon, Lebensfuhrung and veridiction: Weber, Foucault Podcast in a series on Daoism and Capitalism Daoism is philosophical, political and devotional movement that emerged in early China as a critique of Confucian orthodoxy. At a crucial point in the development of the critique of political economy in the 20th and 21st centuries, a diverse array …

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Biopolitics, Bioscience and Governmentality November 19, 2015 Jornadabios.blogspot.com This colloquium aims to discuss current perspectives on biopolitics and its intersections with bioscience, pharmacology, and medicine; and to propose readings that link this knowledge with the individual and governmentality, especially in the Latin American and Chilean context. The category of “biopolitics” was reintroduced by Michel Foucault in 1974, …

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Naissance de la biopolitique : contextes, lectures, réceptions, disputes Colloque de Cerisy Podcast sur le site La forge numérique A voir aussi France Culture plus le webcampus Christian Laval, professeur de sociologie laboratoire sophiapol Date : 16/06/2015 Lieu : CCIC Cerisy Durée : 53:17 Cette conférence a été donnée dans le cadre du colloque intitulé …

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