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

Colin Gordon, « Le possible : alors et maintenant. Comment penser avec et sans Foucault autour du droit pénal etdu droit public », Cultures & Conflits [En ligne], 94-95-96 | été-automne-hiver 2014, mis en ligne le 20 février 2016. URL : http://conflits.revues.org/18899 See academia.edu site for full text Résumé En essayant de contextualiser les enjeux …

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Michael Bibby, Selections from Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Security, Territory, Population’ at the College de France (1977-78) “Michel Foucault’s art consisted in using history to cut diagonally through contemporary reality. He could speak of Nietzsche or Aristotle, of expert psychiatric opinion or the Christian pastoral, but those who attended his lectures always took from what he …

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Videos on youtube of lectures referring to Foucault Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, [Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju] University of Belgrade is the only scientific research institutions in Serbia which deals with research in the field of philosophy and social theory in a systematic and long-term way. As part of its scientific activities, …

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Sokhi-Bulley, B. Performing Struggle: Parrhēsia in Ferguson (2015) Law and Critique, 4 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-015-9152-1 Abstract ‘The enigma of revolts.’ You can almost hear the sigh at the end of this sentence. Foucault is making a statement here, published under the title ‘Useless to Revolt’, on that ‘impulse by which a single …

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Wyly, E. Where is an author? (2015) City, 19 (1), pp. 5-43. DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962897 Abstract If you’re reading these words on a digital device, we are not alone: our encounter as author and reader is taking/making place in and through an uneven, evolutionary planetary digital infrastructure of cognitive production, measurement and monetization. Five and a …

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Lingard, B. Thinking About Theory in Educational Research: Fieldwork in philosophy (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2), pp. 173-191. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793928 Abstract This article responds to and reflects upon the articles in this special issue. Specifically, it deals with the usage of theory in each of the articles, what we might see, as examples …

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Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer Foucault). An interview he gave in relation to the book was translated into English for the Leftist journal Jacobin and …

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Gibson, K.E., Dempsey, S.E. Make good choices, kid: biopolitics of children’s bodies and school lunch reform in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (2015) Children’s Geographies, 13 (1), pp. 44-58. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.827875 Abstract In recent debates surrounding childhood nutrition and US school lunch reforms, the child’s body serves as a contested battleground in a destructive politics of …

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Michel Foucault. Genealogie del presente, Con un’intervista a Michel Foucault e un’intervista a Daniel Defert Saggi di Laura Cremonesi, Daniele Lorenzini, Orazio Irrera, Martina Tazzioli, Paolo B. Vernaglione Manifestolibri, 2015 Further info Dall’Introduzione al volume: L’occasione di questa pubblicazione è stato il trentennale della scomparsa di Michel Foucault. Nel 2014 in tutto il mondo convegni …

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