Foucault News

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

PDF of flyer La prochaine séance du séminaire Actualités Foucault aura lieu le jeudi 19 mars 2015, de 16h à 18h, à l’Université Paris-Est Créteil, bâtiment i, 2e étage, salle 233 (métro ligne 8, Créteil Université). La séance sera consacrée à la présentation du livre de Judith Revel (Paris 10) : Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty (Vrin, …

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Emanuele Leonardi, Review of Dardot & Laval’s The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society, Theory Culture & Society, Nov 13, 2014 Link to full review Abstract: The review highlights how the new book by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval can be interpreted as a twofold contribution. On the one hand, it represents much-needed …

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JORNADAS“Discurso y poder: Foucault, las ciencias sociales y lo jurídico”. (A 40 años de la publicación de Vigilar y castigar).1º, 2 y 3 de Julio 2015Universidad Nacional de Lanús Especialistas que han confirmado su asistenciaDr. Alejandro J. Alagia (UBA), Dr. Ignacio Anitua (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas y Sociales “Ambrosio L. Gioja” – UBA), Dr. Nicolás …

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Foucault and the History of Our Present, edited by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli ISBN 9781137385918 Publication Date February 2015 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Macmillan PDF of flyer PDF of front matter and intro According to philosopher Michel Foucault, the ‘history of the present’ should constitute the starting point …

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Miro Brada, Discontinuity, the new Artform This film was presented during an exhibition in Holland Park, UK between 18.Oct-3.Nov 2013: http://mirobrada.blogspot.co.uk/2013/… It is partially based on the philosophy of Michel Foucault… The interview I was doing with Miroslav Marcelli (a student of Foucault) about Foucault philosophy is here: http://mirobrada.blogspot.co.uk/2013/… You can also find this interview …

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Guilfoyle, M. Therapy and the aesthetics of the self (2015) British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2014.1002075 Abstract Post-structuralists argue that personal identity is a function of societal power dynamics. This becomes especially problematic for persons recruited into problem-saturated identities. In this paper, inspired by Foucault’s call for us …

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Rutherford, V., Conway, P.F., Murphy, R. Looking like a teacher: fashioning an embodied identity through dressage (2015) Teaching Education, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/10476210.2014.997699 Abstract This article makes a case for bringing in the body from the margins of research on teacher education. In doing so, it considers the personal and socio cultural …

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Mifsud, D. Circulating power and in/visibility: Layers of educational leadership (2015) Journal of Workplace Learning, 27 (1), pp. 51-67. DOI: 10.1108/JWL-09-2013-0065 Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study circulating power and in/visibility. In the unfolding Maltese education scenario of decentralization and school networking, suffused with entrenched power, with added layers of leadership …

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