Originally posted on Notes On Liberty:
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French writer on various but related topics of power, knowledge, discourse, history of thought, ethics, politics, and so on. His name to some summons negative associations of French intellectual fashion, incomprehensibility, and refinements of Marxist anti-liberty positions. However, his influence in various fields has…
Originally posted on Le Palais Du Rire:
Un precursore del blairismo e della Terza via? Un pensatore sedotto dal neoliberismo? L’ultima barriera della borghesia contro Marx? La collocazione politica di Michel Foucault da sempre è fonte di dibattito. Un libro appena uscito e curato dal sociologo belga Daniel Zamora, Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et…
Daniel Zamora, Foucault’s Responsibility, Jacobin magazine, 15 December 2014 Editor’s note: This is a response to the article by Peter Frase posted yesterday on Foucault News Foucault was not asking the “right questions.” And the answers he came up with helped disorient the Left. The question of the welfare state’s role in a capitalist society …
Peter Frase, Beyond the Welfare State, Dec 10, 2014. Jacobin has published Seth Ackerman’s translation of an interesting interview with French sociologist Daniel Zamora, discussing his recent book about Michel Foucault’s affinities with neoliberalism. Zamora rightly points out that the “image of Foucault as being in total opposition to neoliberalism at the end of his …
Foucault, literature, and feminist theories of technology Dr Lena Wanggren (English Literature, University of Edinburgh) Science, Technology and Innovation seminar series Date and Time 2nd Feb 2015 15:30 – 17:00 Location Room 1.06, Old Surgeons’ Hall, High School Yards School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh. Abstract Building on French philosopher Michel Foucault’s …
20th Century Continental Philosophy Ph.D. Programs Editor’s note: This is a very new project which has just gone up on the web. Contributions are invited! This wiki’s goal is to provide an unranked yet searchable list of Ph.D. (and terminal M.A.) programs that have strengths in 20th (and early 21st) century continental philosophy throughout the …
Magnus Paulsen Hansen Non-normative critique: Foucault and pragmatic sociology as tactical re-politicization, European Journal of Social Theory December 21, 2014 doi: 10.1177/1368431014562705 Abstract The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher unravelling various oppressive structures …
Jacques Bouveresse, Le désir, la vérité et la connaissance : la volonté de savoir et la volonté de vérité chez Foucault. In Claudine Tiercelin (dir.) La reconstruction de la raison. Dialogues avec Jacques Bouveresse, Collège de France, 2014. 1. Ce qui est connu doit-il être vrai ? 1Pour vous donner une idée du problème dont …
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Laura Pinto and Selena Nemorin, Who’s the Boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Dec 1, 2014 See also this review of the article on Huffington Post The Elf on the Shelf® is a special scout elf sent from the North Pole to help Santa Claus …
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