Foucault News

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

Peter C. O’Brien, Performance Government: Activating and regulating the self-governing capacities of teachers and school leaders, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Published online: 04 Jul 2014 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.930682 Abstract This article analyses ‘performance government’ as an emergent form of rule in advanced liberal democracies. It discloses how teachers and school leaders in Australia are being governed …

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Emily Horne and Tim Maly, The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance, Coach House Books, September 2014. Further info Note also: Sept 21 | Emily Horne & The Inspection House at Word on the Street – Toronto In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Some of Foucault’s collaborative projects are well-known – the I, Pierre Rivière collection; the Herculine Barbin memoir; Le désordre des familles with Arlette Farge; and the posthumous Technologies of the Self volume from the seminar at the University of Vermont. On a dedicated page on this site I have listed…

Silcock, M., Hocking, C., Payne, D. Childhood constructions of contemporary technology: Using discourse analysis to understand the creation of occupational possibilities (2014) Journal of Occupational Science, 21 (3), pp. 357-370. Abstract Ten children aged 10-12 years were audio recorded discussing and demonstrating the types of technology they regularly used at home. A critical discourse analysis …

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The Groningen Lectures on Modes of Reasoning – The Courage of Truth -Part I Opening Lecture by Prof. Michael Dillon, 25 Sept. 2013 The Groningen Lectures on Modes of Reasoning are a space for world leading intellectuals to reflect on historical and contemporary modes of reasoning order and power. Speakers are invited to address the …

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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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