Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and The Arts, Warwick University On the afternoon of 29 January 2013 we hosted a special public lecture by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The one-hour lecture was entitled ‘General Organology, Digital Studies and the Neurosciences’ and offered a succinct account of some of the major preoccupations of Stiegler’s groundbreaking …
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‘Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‘ (Ashgate, 2013) edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention.…
Alissa Overend, Candida, food discipline and the dietary taming of uncertainty (2013) Food, Culture and Society, 16 (1), pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174413X13500468045560 Abstract Discourses of nutritional health are strongly associated with illness, and have recently been linked to the prevalence and management of chronic undefined disorders. Using the case of Candida-a yeast-related disorder of vague symptomatology-I …
Décolonisation et géopolitique de la connaissance Séminaire de recherche et d’enseignement (janvier-juin 2013) Sous la direction de Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Matthieu Renault 7ème séance Mardi 11 juin 2013, 14h-17h Maison Suger (FMSH), 16-18 rue Suger, 75006 Paris rez-de-chaussée) Les boîtes à outils des études postcoloniales Ann Laura Stoler (New School for Social Research, New …
Dominik Bartmanski, How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault, European Journal of Social Theory, Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 427-453 https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577 Abstract The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under …
Ten Weeks on Foucault Course: Powerful Ideas and Practical Applications Course by Kerry Sanders 6 Aug 2013 – 8 Oct 2013 University of Sydney, Centre for Continuing Education. Training and development courses open to anyone Introduction It will be argued that Foucault gives an analysis of political power and its institutions, which are crucial to …
Link if embedded video doesn’t show up You can find a text summary of some of the ideas he puts forward in this lecture here With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link
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The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about 24 minutes in which I’ve filled with a rerecorded section of…
Haueis, P. Apollinian Scientia Sexualis and Dionysian Ars Erotica? On the relation between Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Volume 43, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 260-282 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/492112 Abstract This article explores how a nonreductionist account of Nietzsche’s influence on Michel Foucault can enrich our understanding …
Journée d’étude “Michel Foucault et le XVIIe siècle” 30 mai 2013 Université catholique de Louvain Journée d’étude du GEMCA (Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis / Groupe d’Analyse Culturel de la Première Modernité) Argument À première vue, le XVIIe siècle se présente dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault comme un moment de ruptures décisives tant pour …
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