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

Colin Koopman, ‘Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking’, Constellations (1), 0 Article first published online: 19 MAY 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12153 First paragraph in lieu of abstract Putting Foucault to Work It is difficult to locate a single area of intellectual inquiry in the humanities …

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Matteo Pasquinelli, What an Apparatus is Not: On the Archeology of the Norm in Foucault, Canguilhem, and Goldstein In the new issue 22 (2015) of Parrhesia (open access) Table of contents FEATURES The Technological Condition Erich Hörl, translated by Anthony Enns The Real and the All-Too-Human Joseph Vogl, translated by William Callison ESSAYS ‘A Cataclysm …

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Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Columbia Global Centers/Europe École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales vous invitent à une Journée d’étude PDF of flyer Mardi 2 Juin 2015 Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches  Journée d’étude autours de M. Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales Cours au Collège de France 1972-1973 avec Étienne Balibar …

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Last Call for Abstracts MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 1-3 September 2015 ‘Resistance and Power beyond Foucault’ Convener: Guilel Treiber, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Guilel.Treiber@hiw.kuleuven.be) The nature of political power is changing. The state is no longer the only, or even the main player in the complex mechanisms of power structures at the beginning …

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Hodge, S. Alienating curriculum work in Australian vocational education and training (2015) Critical Studies in Education, 17 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1009842 Abstract Competency-based training (CBT) is a curriculum model employed in educational sectors, professions and industries around the world. A significant feature of the model is its permeability to control by interests outside …

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Serge Audier, Penser le « néolibéralisme ». Le moment néolibéral, Foucault, et la crise du socialisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau, coll. « Documents », 2015, 570 p., ISBN : 9782356874030. Further Info Qu’est-ce vraiment que le néolibéralisme ? Et comment en sortir ? Pour répondre à ces questions, il peut être utile d’élucider d’abord …

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