Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt (eds.), Stephen W. Sawyer (tr.), University of Chicago Press, 2014, 344pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226257709. Reviewed by Todd May, Clemson University, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13 January 2015 This volume consists of six lectures, preceded by an inaugural lecture and …
U. Kalpagam, Rule by Numbers: Governmentality in Colonial India. Bloomsbury, Lexington Books imprint, 2014 Description This book examines aspects of the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality.” The modern state is distinctive for its bureaucratic organization, official procedures, and accountability that in the colonial context …
Colin Gordon has recently set up a profile on Academia.edu and is gradually uploading his collected works to this site. There are currently 20 items on this site with more to come. Most of these works are on Foucault. Some of the uploaded items include material which was not included in the published versions. For …
Thursday, 5 February 2015, 5-7 p.m. Second meeting of the 2014-2015 Workshop “Actualités Foucault” (org. Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel, Arianna Sforzini) David LAPOUJADE (Paris 1) : Deleuze, les mouvements aberrants Sciences Po, 199 boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris (3e étage)
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Thanks to a reader who wishes to remain anonymous for sending me these details of an interview with Foucault about Iran conducted in August 1979, which was first published in French in 2013. I’ve stumbled upon an interview with Foucault from this era that has up until recently remained completely uncommented by Foucault…
Via Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies
A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, Foucault, neoliberalism etc. Full PDF of article First two pages The recent online debate triggered by the Ballast interview (translated in Jacobin) with Daniel Zamora will no doubt have helped to publicise Zamora’s book and its forthcoming translation. As publicity for the French and English editions of the book, …
Jamie Melrose. Foucault’s archaeology: science and transformation, Review of Foucault’s archaeology: science and transformation , by David Webb, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 181 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7486-2421-8, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, December 2014 DOI:10.1080/13642529.2015.985974 Extract from review At root, David Webb’s Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation is an attempt …
Michael C. Behrent, Liberalism without humanism: Michel Foucault and the free-market creed, 1976–1979, Modern Intellectual History / Volume 6 / Issue 03 / November 2009, pp 539 – 568 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990175 Editor’s note: This article appears in French translation in the recent volume edited by Daniel Zamora Critiquer Foucault, Les années 1980 et la tentation néo-libérale, …
Peter Levine, Foucault and neoliberalism on his blog. If you’re intellectually and ideologically eclectic, then you will find important ideas all over the map. It will not surprise you to learn that a person generally associated with the left has benefited from F.O. von Hayek or Gary Becker: leading libertarians. An excellent example is James C. Scott, …
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