Foucault News

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

Margaret Walshaw, Post-structuralism and ethical practical action: Issues of identity and power (2013) Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 44 (1), pp. 100-118. https://doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.44.1.0100 Abstract In an era when familiar categories of identity are breaking down, an argument is made for using post-structuralist vocabulary to talk about ethical practical action in mathematics education. Using aspects …

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Présentation “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault Includes some footage of Foucault 06 déc. 1994 Après un extrait de “Lecture pour tous” du 15 juin 1966, François EWALD présente les “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault , textes écrits par le philosophe de 1954 à sa mort en 1984, en France et dans le monde …

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Hans-Martin Jaeger, Governmentality’s (missing) international dimension and the promiscuity of German neoliberalism (2013) Journal of International Relations and Development, 16 (1), pp. 25-54. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2012.6 Abstract An important insight from the recent publication of Foucault’s governmentality lectures for International Relations (IR) is that international manifestations of governmentalities such as police and liberalism, rather than constituting mere …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the following: ‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21…

ON FOUCAULT’S OBSCURITY: informational prosaicity vs transformational poeticity Posted on July 19, 2013 by terenceblake From the Agent Swarm blog Possible sources of the appearance of obscurity: 1) Vocabulary: French being Latin based looks more complicated than it is when viewed by an English speaker. I remember my surprise when I first arrived in France …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronologie’/’Chronology’ in Dits et écrits/A Companion to Foucault, he makes reference to a publication entitled Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France. This is in the entry for October 1973  (p. 44/55), and Defert suggests that it published some of the results of research projects…

Call for Papers  Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know  November 8-9, 2013 A conference presented by the Foucault Society and Stony Brook University Department of Philosophy Location: Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY Keynote: Todd May, Clemson University: “The Will to Know” Guest Speaker: Eduardo Mendieta, Stony …

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Michael Maidan, Review of: A Companion to Foucault by Christopher Falzon,Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Editors) Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. This companion to the work of French thinker Michael Foucault offers an overview of his work, and critical essays that explore Foucault’s insights and his influence on contemporary social and political thought. Part I opens with the …

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Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Ce livre paraîtra le 10 octobre 2013. Frédéric Gros Foucault et « la société punitive » Compte rendu sur le site Cairn.info Résumé « Malheureusement, quand on enseigne la morale, quand on fait l’histoire de la morale, on explique toujours …

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Michael C. Behrent, Foucault and Technology, History and Technology, Vol. 29, Iss. 1, 2013, 54-104 https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2013.780351 Abstract This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) employed the terms ‘technology’ and the ‘technique’ over the course of his intellectual career. His use of these words in …

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