Ritu Birla, Maine (and Weber) Against the Grain: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of the Corporate Person (2013) Journal of Law and Society, 40 (1), pp. 92-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00614.x Abstract This essay forges ties between postcolonial methodologies and the economic sociology of law, emphasizing the history, legal production, and governmental habitus of that modern abstraction called ‘the …
John Masterson, The Disorder of Things: A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah, Wits University Press, 2013 Nuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated voices in contemporary world literature. Michel Foucault is revered as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, with his discursive legacy providing …
I’m posting this a bit late – but still an item worth knowing about. Posted on The Bartlett UCL site 15 August – 05 September 2013 Location: UCL North Lodge, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT [Update 4 April 2026: Links updated – with some archived on the Wayback Machine] This free collaborative exhibition explores the life, …
CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Malmö Malmö, Sweden June 5-8, 2014 We seek submissions for: 1). Papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking; 2). Round table discussions comprised of four or five panelists: European and North American …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as I know, the only partial translations of this important document are found in the English edition…
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I’ve just received my advance copy of The Birth of Territory, and additional copies have been sent by the warehouse. The Chicago page for the book has the book listed as published, and orders from them direct will be sent now (there are also electronic copies available). I guess online bookstores…
Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity, Indiana University Press, 2013, 348pp., $30.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780253006219. Reviewed by Amy Allen, Dartmouth College In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: An electronic journal 29 August 2013 The overall aim of Colin Koopman’s Genealogy as Critique is “to explicate genealogy in such a way as …
Michel Foucault on Gaston Bachelard (video) 02 oct. 1972 Michel Foucault situe la pensée de Bachelard dans l’évolution des connaissances scientifiques des années 20. Emission Un certain regard Office national de radiodiffusion télévision française
Julian Brigstocke, Artistic Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Ethics in Foucault and Benjamin (2013) Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (1), pp. 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412450467 Abstract In The Use of Pleasure, Michel Foucault suggests that it is possible to read Walter Benjamin’s writings on Baudelaire as a contribution to a genealogy of ethics. This article experiments with …
Michel Foucault présente son livre “Les mots et les choses” 08 févr. 1967 Depuis Tunis, Pierre SERRA interviewe Michel FOUCAULT à propos de son dernier livre “Les mots et les choses” : ce qu’il a voulu faire dans ce livre. Origine récente de la question : qu’est-ce que l’Homme ? d’où vient la notion d’humanisme? …
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