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

Língua(gens) em Discurso – A Formação dos Objetos Organizadoras: Ismara Tasso e Érica Danielle Silva Editora: Pontes Coleção Linguagem&Sociedade (v. 7) Ano de publicação: 2014. Com o objetivo de subsidiar teórica e metodologicamente pesquisadores e estudiosos do campo epistemológico do discurso, esta coletânea reúne, com singular empenho dos autores, inéditas e substanciais discussões e reflexões …

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Date: May 30, 2014 Location: Stanford University Humanities Center Talk Title: Paul Rabinow “Contemporary Inquiry: Ecologies of Assemblages” Abstract: How should one conduct inquiry—today—into problems of broad scope and historical depth? How should one give form to participant-observation into problem spaces in which the specific site must be understood to be connected with multiple other …

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Steve Matthewman, Michel Foucault, Technology, and Actor-Network Theory,Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Volume 17, Issue 2, Spring 2013, Pages 274-292 DOI: 10.5840/techne201317210 Pre-publication copy Author’s blog Abstract While Michel Foucault’s significance as a social theorist is undisputed, his importance as a technological theorist is frequently overlooked. This article considers the richness and the range …

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Robin James, Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool, Culture, Theory, and Critique 52 (2):138-158 (2014) Further info Abstract Is it even possible to resist or oppose neoliberalism? I consider two responses that translate musical practices into counter-hegemonic political strategies: Jacques Attali’s theory of “composition” and the biopolitics of “uncool.” Reading Jacques Attali’s …

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Annmaria Shimabuku, Schmitt and Foucault on the Question of Sovereignty under Military Occupation, Política común, Volume 5, 2014 https://doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0005.007 Extract 1. A Violation or Production of Sovereignty? This essay examines the geopolitical underpinnings of Carl Schmitt’s well-known definition of the sovereign as “he who decides the exception” (Political Theology 5) mainly through The Nomos of …

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Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 360 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2014 Further info Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently …

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Anthony Alessandrini, Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions, Jadaliyya, April 01 2014 [This article is the final in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa. Read the first and second installments here: “The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France” by Diren Valayden and “Justifications of Power”: …

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