Jörg Bernardy, Warum Macht produktiv ist. Genealogische Blickschule mit Foucault, Nietzsche und Wittgenstein, Wilhelm Fink, 2015 Further info Informationen zum Buch Im alltäglichen Denken und in den Medien ist Macht meist negativ besetzt. Dass Macht auch produktiv wirkt, wird dabei oftmals vergessen. Der historische Wandel von der traditionellen Souveränitätsmacht zu den subtilen Mechanismen moderner Disziplinargesellschaften …
Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Conference 2: ‘Modern Appraisals of the Hellenistic Legacy’ 29 June–1 July 2015 Monash University Prato Centre, Italy See facebook page Call for Abstracts Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in recent years as philosophers have sought alternatives to deontological and utilitarian theories. This interest has …
Foucault Circle 2015 University of Richmond Downtown Richmond, VA March 20-22 All sessions will be held the University of Richmond Downtown, 626 E. Broad St, Suite 100 Friday, March 20th 6:00pm-8:00pm – Reception (drinks and light fare) at the University of Richmond Downtown (626 E. Broad St, Suite 100, Richmond, VA 23219) Saturday, March 21st …
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Ecole Doctorale de Philosophie CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Historical Epistemology: beginnings and current issues 22-23 May 2015 PDF of Call for papers We hereby invite contributions by graduate students and young researchers for the two-day workshop “Historical epistemology: beginnings and current issues”, which will take place at the University of Paris …
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Release day is always a bit bittersweet, because, despite all the dithering and busy work that goes into releasing music, it means that the process is almost over. That being said, Heterotopia has been a passion project of ours for quite some time now and it’s with great, treacly pleasure that…
Notes on some papers uploaded on Academia.edu Colin Gordon, 11 February 2015. All but one of these uploads are about Michel Foucault’s History of Madness and/or issues relating to madness and psychiatry. There is some information about individual pieces in the abstracts. “History of madness, history of exclusion” was the result of a commission for …
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Foucauldian Genealogies of Desire: Interest, Instinct and the Law A talk by Miguel de Beistegui (Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick) Link to event page This talk is available on itunes. Search this page Taking his point of departure in Foucault’s work from the mid to late 1970s, Professor de Beistegui will argue that the …
Andrew Johnson, Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age, Theoria, Volume 61, Number 141, December 2014, pp. 5-29(25) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2014.6114102 Open access version on academia.edu Abstract: In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a ‘secret history of …
Megan Garber, Foucault That Noise: The Terror of Highbrow Mispronunciation. From Anaïs to Zizek, a brief list of “shibboleth names” The Atlantic, Feb 6 2015. [Editor: Foucault is of course on this list] In October 1937, the president of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo, devised a simple way to identify the Haitian immigrants living along …
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