Foucault News

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

Ali Meghji (2014), Moving away from Bourdieu and reproduction: Foucault, resistance and gender in secondary school, Paper for ‘Foucault and education: Retrospect and Prospect‘ conference (University of Sheffield). Paper available on Academia.edu site Abstract The way in which I will be defending the utility of Foucault’s works for educational research is through the idea that …

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Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know February 21-22, 2014 Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University In celebration of the publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at …

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Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram, Mediatropes Vol 4, No 1 (2013) Link to issue. Full PDFs available Table of Contents Editorial Introduction: Neoliberal Diagrammatics and Digital Control Matthew Tiessen, Greg Elmer IPO 2.0: The Panopticon Goes Public Greg Elmer Resilience versus Resistance: Affectively Modulating Contemporary Diagrams of Social Resilience, Social Sustainability, and Social Innovation …

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Philippe Theophanidis, Michel Foucault and “the problem of war”, 1981 From Philippe Theophanidis’ blog Aphelis Therefore, if you like, I never stop getting into the issue of law and rights without taking it as a particular object. And if God grant me life, after madness, illness, crime, sexuality, the last thing I would like to …

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Une exposition-dossier à l’université Lille 3 en mars 2014 «Michel Foucault: auteur, lecteur, archiviste » Exposition du 11 au 27 mars 2014 Hall d’exposition de la Bibliothèque universitaire centrale de Lille 3 de 8h30 à 20h du lundi au jeudi de 8h30 à 19h le vendredi et de 9h à 12h le samedi Y aller …

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Foucault et la phénoménologie, Les Études philosophiques, n° 106, 2013/3, 152 pages. Special Issue Further info SOMMAIRE Page 311 à 315 Jean-Claude Monod Présentation Page 317 à 332 Philippe Sabot Foucault et Merleau-Ponty : un dialogue impossible ? Page 333 à 344 Natalie Depraz De Husserl à Foucault : la restitution pratique de la phénoménologie …

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Sandrine Rui « Où donc est le danger ? » Participation et usages de Foucault, Participations 2013/2 (N° 6), pp. 65-86 DOI : 10.3917/parti.006.0065. Résumé Peu mobilisée pour penser la sphère publique, la pensée de Foucault fait cependant l’objet d’usages diversifiés. Cet article propose un aperçu de cette diversité qui tient tout autant aux bifurcations …

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Editor: Update June 2023. A reader has alerted me that this directory no longer exists. For a useful list of organizations relating to Women in Philosophy, see this University of Colarado library list A new US based directory of women philosophers has been set up. Below is a description and invitation to join circulated by …

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Stephen Graham, Foucault’s Boomerang: the New Military Urbanism OpenDemocracy, 14 February 2013. According to Stephen Graham, a new set of ‘Foucauldian boomerang effects’ are shaping how states apply ‘tactics of control’ over everyday urban life. Today, he traces the emergence of what he calls a new military urbanism, which applies to cities both in the …

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