Foucault News

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

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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Lanuza, G.M. Agency and Governmentality: The Regulation and resistance of Muslim students in a public high school (2013) Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 13 (2), pp. 63-78. Further info Abstract This paper is an attempt to show how Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality can be used to illustrate the regulation of Muslim students while engaging in …

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Miró-Bonet, M., Bover-Bover, A., Moreno-Mulet, C., Miró-Bonet, R., Zaforteza-Lallemand, C. Genealogy as a critical toolbox: Deconstructing the professional identity of nurses (2014) Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70 (4), pp. 768-776. Abstract Aim: To discuss the Foucauldian concept of genealogy as a framework for understanding and transforming nurses’ professional identity. Background: The professional identity of nurses …

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