Foucault News

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

Katie R. Place and Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, Hegemonic discourse and self-discipline: Exploring Foucault’s concept of bio-power among public relations professionals, Public Relations Inquiry September 2013 vol. 2 no. 3, 305-325 https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X13494965 Abstract This qualitative study of 20 public relations practitioners examines power in public relations through the lens of bio-power – the control and management of …

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 The special edition, Privacy and Dataveillance Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, …

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André Schiffrin, Publishing Force and a Founder of New Press, Is Dead at 78 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The New York Times Books, December 1, 2013 André Schiffrin, a publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to …

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Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil, Éditions Points 05 Décembre 2013, 356 pages. Frédéric Gros, Foucault et « la société punitive », Pouvoirs, 2010/4 n° 135, pp.5-14 Résumé Foucault prononce en 1973 un cours au Collège de France intitulé « La société punitive ». Ce cours, …

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PDF flyer Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches Journée d’étude autour de Michel Foucault, La Société punitive (1972-1973) Mardi 17 décembre 2013 de 10h à 13h, salles du conseil A & B de 14h30 à 18h, salle Jean-Pierre Vernant, 8e étage, EHESS 190 av de France 75013 Paris Videos of sessions. Programme 10h00 …

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Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2007. This has just been newly published in paperback. Publisher’s page Draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Seyla Benhabib, and others    The book is both an analysis of power and an …

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Collectif f71 Appel à participation Le samedi 14 décembre à 11h, réunion d’information à propos des séances de travail avec des amateurs proposées par le collectif F71 à l’occasion des représentations de Notre corps utopique au Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris 11e) Information et réservation, Nicolas Transy, 01 43 57 57 17, ntransy@theatre-bastille.com D’autres séances …

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