Muriam Haleh Davis, ‘Justifications of Power’: Neoliberalism and the Role of Empire, Jadaliyya, March 25, 2014 This article is the second 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 installment here: “The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France“ by Diren …
Diren Valayden, The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in Francem Jadaliyya, Mar 17 2014 [This article is the first in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa.] “For with Napoleon’s occupation of Egypt processes were set in motion between East and …
Thiago Fortes Ribas, Foucault: verdade e loucura no nascimento da arqueologia, Editora Universidade Federal do Paraná (2014) Further info Com a clareza e a profundidade conceitual necessárias ao estudo de um dos filósofos mais importantes do século XX, este livro traz à tona o tema, atual e relevante, da relação entre verdade e loucura. Como …
Harcourt, Bernard E., Digital Security in the Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Neoliberal Age of Big Data (2014). Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-404; APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2455223 and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2455223## Abstract: In 1827, Nicolaus Heinrich Julius, a professor at the University of Berlin, identified an important …
Neoliberalism and Biopolitics Working Group | Revisiting Foucault: The Biopolitics Lectures and Beyond Hans Sluga, William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley & William Callison, Political Science, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley 17 September, 2014, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Further info The opening session of …
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Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former…
PhD Scholarship Opportunity (Monash University, Australia and The University of Warwick, UK) Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life further info Faculty of Arts Faculty of Social Sciences Monash University Warwick University Departments Philosophy Program (School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash) Department of Philosophy, Warwick Location Caulfield or Clayton campus Warwickshire campus Supervisors …
Resisting Force and Discourse Host: California State University, San Marcos Date: Friday, September 26, 2014 Location: University Student Union, Ballroom Keynote Speaker: TBA Conference Website The conference theme brings into critical light the way that bodies are marked and regulated by discursive practices and spaces, and institutional procedures. This operational force can take the form …
Robin Jeffrey “In every generation a slayer is born. One girl in all the world, the Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer” (Buffy). For more than seven seasons, fans of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer tuned in weekly and …
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Foucault’s major works – his sole-authored books, plus some articles – will appear in a two-volume collection in 2015 as a prestigious Pléiade edition. Thanks to Colin Gordon for alerting me to the news. Frédéric Gros is interviewed about this here (in French). Among other things the interview says that the final Collège de France…
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