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

Michel Foucault: After 1984 Friday, October 17, 2014 9:00 AM – Saturday, October 18, 2014 9:00 AM Yale University Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), Auditorium 53 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511 (Location is wheelchair accessible) Further info Speakers: Etienne Balibar, Columbia University; Jean-François Braunstein, University of Paris; Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley; Judith Butler, …

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Originally posted on Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Je participerai, le samedi 20 septembre 2014, à une rencontre sur le thème “Le savoir/Le pouvoir” avec Didier Eribon et Edouard Louis dans le cadre des Rendez-vous philosophiques de la Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe Samedi 20/09/2014, Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, salle des Fresques, 37 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, 15h-17h.  

JOURNÉES EUROPÉENNES DU PATRIMOINE 20 & 21 Septembre 2014 Hommage à Michel Foucault Exposition~Promenade Vendeuvre-du-Poitou « Le jardin du Philosophe » Vendeuvre du Poitou est situé dans le Haut Poitou, au nord de Poitiers, au milieu des vignes et des terres maraichères, « creusé dans les collines, entre les vallées de la Pallu et de …

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Mauricio (see comments) explains that this is one of a series of buildings named after philosophers. So there are also a Nietzsche building and a Durkheim building. With thanks to Dyogo Leão for this news. Edifício Michel Foucault Further info 01 – Introdução • Como todo imóvel Ágata, o padrão de acabamento do Edifício Michel …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. I also drew together all the information I know about…

New Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia. Rowman & Littlefield International Further info Continental philosophy left home in the second half of the twentieth century, to migrate to the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. It has established itself in the Anglophone world as a minor tradition in philosophy programmes, but also in cultural studies, literature, …

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Mark Kelly DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 17 September, 3.30pm-5.00pm PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27  [How to get to Bankstown Campus] http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown All welcome ABSTRACT: In this paper, I critically assess Gilles Deleuze’s ‘societies of control’ thesis, in relation to both the work of Michel Foucault which inspired it, and the work …

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Postponed until later this year Cartography of Exhaustion Venue: Morven Brown 310 (map ref C20)University of NSW, Sydney Who: Peter Pál Pelbart School of Humanities and Languages and the Biopolitical Research Network Drawing on Nietzsche’s problematic of nihilism and the question of exhaustion that Deleuze finds in Beckett, this talk will attempt to trace some …

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