The Unsaveables: Sovereignty and Biopolitics in the 18th Brumaire Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) Date: Tuesday 6 August Time: 1 p.m. Venue: Morven Brown 310, University of NSW ) I approach the 18th Brumaire from a double trajectory. First, I examine its relation to how the exception was thought in the work of Carl Schmitt and …
Ansgar Allen, The Examined Life. On the Formation of Souls and Schooling, American Educational Research Journal, April 2013 vol. 50 no. 2 216-250 https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831212466934 Abstract The spread of examination throughout educational institutions is often viewed as an overly constraining influence, one that distorts pedagogic relationships and prevents more genuine educational activities from taking place. This …
Daan Wesselman, The high line, “the balloon,” and heterotopia (2013) Space and Culture, 16 (1), pp. 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331212451669 Abstract The High Line, a new park on an old elevated railway on Manhattan, is an otherworldly space that invites an understanding in terms of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. However, this often-used term requires critical reflection, particularly …
13 Things You Didn’t Know About Deleuze and Guattari – Part III, by Eugene Wolters, 2 July 2013 Some interesting anecdotes #11 Foucault saw Deleuze as a rival Some may find it surprising that the author of “Anti-Oedipus’” glowing introduction kind of hated the book. While Michel Foucault put on airs of amicability towards Deleuze, …
Free 1 Day Conference Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine.] Conveners: Ansgar Allen & Wilfred Carr; Keynotes: Erica Burman & Stephen Ball Hosted, sponsored and funded by the international journal Pedagogy, Culture …
Meinrad Calleja, (2012) The Battle Roar of Silence: Foucault and the Carceral System, Malta: FARAXA Publishing House Description The Battle Roar of Silence: Foucault and the Carceral System explores the philosophical rationales sustaining morality, law, punishment and the carceral system as part of the discourse of globalisation. This text attempts to desacralize the foundations of …
Philosophers: Debates and Dialogues A series by Fons Elders Released by Icarus Films, New York Update September 2025. This series is no longer available from Icarus films and the link above is to their page as it is archived on the Wayback Machine. The Chomsky Foucault debate can now be found on YouTube however Text …
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Until recently, there were only two texts by Foucault explicitly on Nietzsche. 1. ‘Nietzsche, Freud, Marx’, Cahiers de Royaumont, VI, 1967, pp. 183-200. (The note in Dits et écrits says this was from a symposium at Royaumont in July 1964.) 2. ‘Nietzsche, la génealogie, l’histoire’, in Hommage à Jean Hyppolite, Paris: PUF, 1971, pp.…
Katarina Damjanov, Lunar cemetery: Global heterotopia and the biopolitics of death (2013) Leonardo, 46 (2), pp. 159-162. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00516 Abstract The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel …
Suze Wilson, Situated knowledge: A Foucauldian reading of ancient and modern classics of leadership thought (2013) Leadership, 9 (1), pp. 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715012455129 Abstract This paper aims to provoke reflection and debate on researcher assumptions and the potential functions and consequences of truth claims made about leadership. A Foucauldian approach informs this comparative case study of …
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