Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
“Foucault insults the police”, photograph by Elie Kagan from 17 January 1972, in Michel Foucault – Une journée particulière. It seems this photo was taken only moments after a much more famous one with Foucault, Deleuze and Sartre – such as appears here. The book has many more images, and bilingual English-French text.
Madness in Civilization: from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Reviewed by Salley Vickers, The Telegraph, 29 Mar 2015 I doubt whether many people other than social science students read Michel Foucault these days. Andrew Scull, whose review of Foucault’s The History of Madness in 2007 took the …
Colin Gordon, New additions to academia.edu site, March 2015 « Le possible : alors et maintenant : The possible then and now. » A new publication in a special issue of the French journal Cultures & Conflits on the theme of the critique of criminological reason. My piece is an essay in the history of …
The Heterotopia of Facebook Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’, Philosophy Now, Apr/May 2015 Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University room-mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. What started out as an on-campus online ‘hot or not’ tool resulted in the registration of a …
Call for Papers After Biopolitics The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University will be hosting the 29th Annual (SLSA) Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference. November 12-15, 2015 at the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) located within the Houston Medical Center and Rice University. Keynote Speakers: Viciane Despret Mark Dion POTENTIAL …
Workshop “Actualités Foucault” (4th session) Thursday, 9 April 2015, 4-6 pm Philippe Sabot (Université Lille 3) “Critique et culture de soi. À propos de Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique ? suivi de La culture de soi (Paris, Vrin, 2015)” Discussants: Henri-Paul Fruchaud & Daniele Lorenzini, scientific editors of the volume Université Paris-Est Créteil, Campus …
Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi Édition établie par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini Introduction et apparat critique par D. Lorenzini et A.I. Davidson Vrin – Philosophie du présent 192 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2624-3 – mars 2015 PDF Table des matières Le 27 mai 1978, …
Margaret Bird – Inculcating an appreciation of time pressure in the young: the training of children for working life in 18th-century England Podcast at Backdoor broadcasting Royal Holloway University of London Department of History Departmental Research seminars 2014/2015 24 March 2015 The rearing of children has been a topic at the centre of academic debate …
https://vimeo.com/49843119 Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists, Feb 28, 2012 [Update December 2025. This video is no longer publicly accessible. But a written open access journal publication can be found here] Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement, theologie.geschichte 7 (2012) https://doi.org/10.48603/tg-2012-art-02 Michel Foucault’s conception of “power-knowledge” has been one …
Contrivers’ Review Call for Essays on Technology Update October 2025: Links in this post are to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Through 2015 and beyond, Contrivers’ Review will dedicate a series of articles and interviews examining technology and society from several complementary angles. Our goal is to bring together a broad …
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