Foucault, Governmentality,Biopolitics – Analytical strategies for critique of power (PhD course, 11-13 December 2013) Faculty • Jeffrey Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. • Mitchell Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle, Denmark/Australia, • Thomas Dumm, Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, USA. • Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. …
Fausto Calaça, Dandysme et souci de soi: Essai sur les processus de subjectivation dans “La Comédie humaine” d’Honoré de Balzac, Presses Académiques Francophones ( 28.08.2013 ) Cet ouvrage est la version remaniée et traduite d’une thèse de doctorat en « Psychologie clinique et Culture » soutenue dans sa version en langue portugaise, « Dandismo e …
Un demi-siècle d’Histoire de la folie, sous la direction de Daniele Lorenzini et Arianna Sforzini, Editions Kimé, 2013. L’Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique de Michel Foucault a produit, au moment de sa publication, une onde de choc. Cet ouvrage, foisonnant, baroque, labyrinthique, est apparu aussitôt comme insituable. S’agissait-il d’histoire, de philosophie, de littérature, …
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…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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 …
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