Foucault News

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

Foucault’s Risks by Anna Shechtman, Peter Raccuglia & Susan Morrow November 7th, 2014. Los Angeles Review of Books Editor’s note: On October 17–18, 2014, Yale University hosted a conference exploring the intellectual and political legacy of Michel Foucault. The Los Angeles Review of Books asked three Yale graduate students to respond to this conference by …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore, the discussion is with Colin Wright, Sophie Fuggle and Alex Vasudevan. This was a really useful experience for me – it provided a non-negotiable deadline…

Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker: Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts/EGS) Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2015 * * * In a contemporary …

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Originally posted on Stockerblog:
My latest post at the New APPS group blog Continuing from my last post on ‘Style of Living versus Juridification in Foucault’, there seems to be me to be something to be gained by thinking about Kierkegaard’s ethics here, even if Kierkegaard’s Christianity and Foucault’s aesthetic self seem rather distinct. The emphasis…

  CFP: Time Served: Discipline and Punish 40 Years On Nottingham Trent University is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference on Michel Foucault‘s “Discipline and Punish.” The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2015. 11-12 September 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK 40 years after it was first published in French, the impact …

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Call for Papers: Critical Spaces – Disorienting the Topological Critical Spaces Call for Papers Facebook page ***The deadline for applications has now been extended to Friday 14th November 2014*** A graduate conference in the critical humanities to be hosted by The London Graduate School at Kingston University, London. Monday 5th January 2015 Keynote speakers will …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve made some additions and amendments to the Foucault Resources page on this blog. Among other things, the two contributions from Graham Burchell are linked; I’ve updated the table of Foucault’s various plans for The History of Sexuality, with a list of his lecture courses and related material; and it also has…

Brindisi, Cremonesi, Gros, Harcourt, Irrera, Lorenzini, Senellart, Tazzioli, Foucault e le genealogie del dir-vero Cronopio (collana “Tessere”), Napoli 2014, pp. 219 , In occasione del trentesimo anniversario della morte di Foucault, questo volume raccoglie i contributi alla giornata di studi organizzata da “materiali foucaultiani” all’école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales il 27 marzo 2013 …

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Mobilities and Foucault. Special Issue, Mobilities Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 Further info Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’ Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen & David Tyfield ‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’: Foucault and Beyond the Stopping of Mobilities Chris Philo Securing Circulation Through …

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