Hervé Oulc’hen (dir.), Usages de Foucault, Paris, PUF, coll. « Pratiques théoriques », 2014, 406 p., avant-propos de Guillaume le Blanc, ISBN : 978-2-13-062110-2. Further info Compte rendu de Alexandre Klein Sommaire L’oeuvre de Foucault est toute entière traversée par la question théorique et pratique des usages. Question de méthode, d’abord : Foucault fait usage …
Gouvernementalité et biopolitique : les historiens et Michel Foucault Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2013/4-5 (n° 60-4/4 bis). 208 pages. Further info Sommaire Foucault historien ? Michael C. Behrent Penser le XXe siècle avec Michel Foucault Paolo Napoli Foucault et l’histoire des normativités Luca Paltrinieri Biopouvoir, les sources historiennes d’une fiction politique Des outils pour …
Sam Binkley, Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life, SUNY Press, 2014. Summary Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory. Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in the phenomenon of happiness, as evidenced by self-help books, talk shows, spiritual mentoring, business management, and relationship counseling. At the …
Edmund White, Edmund White recalls a night at the opera with Michel Foucault in 1981, The Telegraph, 28 Feb 2014 Author Edmund White looks back at his friendship with the late Michel Foucault By the time this photo was taken in Paris in 1981 I knew Foucault fairly well. In the late Seventies I had …
Olga Campbell-Thomson, Theory as method: the importance of Foucault in my doctoral research, Social Theory Applied blog, November 4 2013 Editor update 26 August 2026: Link above is the archived page on the Wayback Machine Now that I have completed my doctoral dissertation, I have the feeling it could be accomplished in a shorter time …
Association Tunisienne des Etudes Philosophiques Michel Foucault trente ans après Les 17, 18 et 19 mars 2014 à l’Hôtel Marina Palace Hammamet Tunisie Avec le soutien de : Ministère de la Culture et de la sauvegarde du patrimoine, L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, La Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis, L’Ecole Normale …
Life and Debt: Living through the Financialisation of the Biosphere Philip Mirowski keynote for ‘Life and Debt’ conference Comments on Foucault at around the 14 minute mark Published on Aug 18, 2013 Update September 2025: This lecture is no longer on YouTube. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback machine How …
Biopolitical Studies Research Network Prof. Thomas Lemke Tuesday 11 March – Tuesday 18 March Never Stand Still Faculty of Arts Social Sciences School of Humanities Languages Thomas Lemke is Professor of Sociology with focus on Biotechnologies, Nature and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Goethe- University Frankfurt/Main in Germany. Among his recent …
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Many thanks to everyone who came to the two talks this week on The Birth of Territory at Monash and RMIT. There were good audiences for both and some interesting questions. I recorded the RMIT talk and will try to upload the audio to this site soon. Details for next week’s…
Intolérable Textes réunis par le Groupe d’Information sur les prisons, présentés par Philippe Artières Chronologie et postface de Philippe Artières Collection Verticales, Gallimard Parution : 19-04-2013 Further info Ce volume contient En février 1971, des intellectuels dont Michel Foucault, Daniel Defert, Jean-Marie Domenach, Pierre Vidal-Naquet et Gilles Deleuze fondent le Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons …
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