Victoria Kannen, These are not ‘regular places’: women and gender studies classrooms as heterotopias (2013) Gender, Place and Culture, 21(1), 52–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2012.759910 Abstract This article questions the transformative potential of women and gender studies classrooms through a discussion of student experiences of privilege and oppression in these spaces. Using in-depth interviews with 22 undergraduate students …
Charles Barbour, Doing Justice to Foucault: Legal Theory and the Later Ethics (2013) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (1), pp. 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9281-x Abstract This article provides a critical evaluation of Ben Golder’s and Peter Fitzpatrick’s recent Foucault’s Law, which it characterizes as a decisive intervention into both legal theory and Foucault scholarship. …
Mikko Joronen, Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism (2013) Geopolitics, 18 (2), pp. 356-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2012.723289 Abstract This paper explores the ontological constitution of the neoliberal state. By enriching Michel Foucault’s work on neoliberal governmentality with Heideggerian reading of the ontological conditions involved in the process, the paper …
Rosa María Rodríguez Magda, Foucault et la genealogie des sexes, Ici et ailleurs, 9 juin 2013 Comment aborder l’œuvre d’un auteur qui ne voulait pas être un auteur, qui reniait la notion d’œuvre, et en plus dans une recherche sur un sujet dont d’ailleurs il ne s’occupa pas trop ? Probablement de la même façon dont …
David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 256pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780748624218. Open access Puts The Archaeology of Knowledge at the heart of Foucault’s thought David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault’s approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of …
Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of such works as Communitas and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy. This is the first section of a talk – see other uploaded clips for the remainder. With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link Philippe Theophanidis sent the following information to Foucault News: This lecture by Roberto Esposito …
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 …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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 …
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