Foucault News

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

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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Isacco Turina, Vatican biopolitics (2013) Social Compass, 60 (1), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612471776 Abstract The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on …

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Jean-Philippe Cazier, Deleuze, Foucault et la littérature On the Mediapart site 06 mars 2013. Lire une œuvre ne consiste pas à lui appliquer une grille théorique, à la placer dans des cadres conceptuels a priori, à expliquer ce que l’auteur a voulu dire mais sans le dire, à extraire de l’œuvre une signification enfin claire …

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Luciano Nuzzo, Foucault and the Enigma of the Monster (2013) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (1), pp. 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9275-8 Abstract In this paper Foucault’s thought on monstrosity is explored. Monsters appear whenever and wherever knowledge/power assemblages emerge. That which eludes the latter, and which threatens to subvert them, is the monstrous. Foucault …

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Theresa Sauter, (2013), ‘What’s on your mind?’ Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation, New Media and Society, 16(5), 823-839. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813495160 Abstract In the context of modern western psychologised, techno-social hybrid realities, where individuals are incited constantly to work on themselves and perform their self-development in public, the use of online social networking sites …

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