John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy From the Open Culture site, July 1 2013 It is sometimes noted–typically with admiration–that France is a place where a philosopher can still be a celebrity. It sounds laudable. But celebrity culture can be corrosive, both to the culture at large and to the celebrities …
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I’ve just signed a contract with Polity for a book entitled Foucault’s Last Decade. I had a really good experience with Polity for the Sloterdijk Now edited volume, and am very pleased to be working with them and the philosophy editor Emma Hutchinson again. Here’s the opening part of the proposal: This…
WE ARE THE TIME: Art Lives in the Age of Global Transition, this conference-festival took place between March 12 and March 16, 2012 at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Aneta Szyłak, Grant Watson, Jorinde Seijdel and Alfredo Cramerotti to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program …
Foucault Post Mortem Call for papers Résumé Le 25 juin 1984 mourait Michel Foucault. Depuis lors, son influence n’a cessé de s’étendre, d’un point de vue épistémologique, géographique et culturel. Le laboratoire Cultures et Sociétés en Europe organise, les 25 et 26 juin 2014, à l’occasion du 30e anniversaire de la mort de Foucault, un …
James Newbery, Space of Discipline and Governmentality: The Singer Sewing Machine Factory, Clydebank, in the Twentieth Century (2013) Scottish Geographical Journal, 129 (1), pp. 15-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2012.738824 Abstract This paper examines work at the Singer factory, Clydebank, in the first half of the twentieth century. It employs a geographical reading of the temporal and spatial strategies …
Matthew Clarke and Barbara Hennig, Motivation as ethical self-formation (2013) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (1), pp. 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2012.715386 Abstract Motivation is a concept more frequently found in venues concerned with educational psychology than in ones concerned with educational philosophy. Under the influence of psychology, and its typically dualistic way of making sense of the world, motivation in education has …
La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979 Dossier coordonné par Jean-François Bert Textes choisis, présentés et traduits par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Florian Nicodème, Luca Paltrinieri, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Ariane Revel, Judith Revel, Martin Saar, Michel Senellart, Ferhat Taylan. coédition Presses universitaires de Caen – IMEC, Collection Regards critiques …
From the Korea Herald 10 April 2013 William Forsythe on Foucault’s ’space of otherness’ The “space of otherness” is what iconoclastic choreographer William Forsythe is bringing to Korea this week with the Korean stage debut of his 2006 work “Heterotopia.” A site-specific dance which requires the audience to move between two rooms on stage, “Heterotopia” …
James Reed, The Knife, ‘Shaking the Habitual’, The Boston Globe, April 9 2013 Calling “Shaking the Habitual” an album sells it short. The latest from the Swedish electronic duo the Knife, it’s more along the lines of an installation piece you’d find at a gallery, a knotty tangle of polyrhythms, distorted vocals, and heady influences …
Pensées rebelles: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Editions Sciences Humaines. 21 mars 2013 – 192 pages – ISBN : 9782361060343 Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze : trois philosophes longtemps boudés par la France et aujourd’hui redécouverts. Leurs pensées peuvent être qualifiées de « rebelles » à double titre. Rebelles d’abord parce que singulières, critiques, irréductibles, remettant sans cesse en …
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