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

Jean-Louis Fournel et Xavier Tabet, Alessandro Fontana, philosophe et pivot des études foucaldiennes, Le Monde, 20 février 2013 Alessandro Fontana naît le 25 mars 1939 dans une famille de la bourgeoisie cultivée de la Vénétie. Orphelin de mère à l’âge de quatre ans, il est élevé d’abord par des tantes puis par son père, proviseur …

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Ganguly, A., Foucault, government and acts of obedience, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 3, October 2012, Pages 448-465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872110392285 Abstract Conventional political writings influenced by Foucault emphasize how various kinds of coercive measures are hidden behind the veil of a justified government. Their investigations tell us what makes it possible for the …

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UChicago Professor Helps Uncover Lost Lectures by French Philosopher Foucault, 7 February 2013 Source Newsroom: University of Chicago Newswise — More than 30 years ago, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a landmark series of seven lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium In them, Foucault linked his early and late work—exploring the role …

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Judith Revel, “Foucault and the history of our present” part of the series…. “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” A workshop organized with the support of the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths and of mf / materiali foucaultiani February 28 , 4-6 pm NAB 314 Goldsmiths University of London Contacts: …

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Alessandro Fontana 1939 -2013 Alessandro Fontana was Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the author of numerous essays which were partially collected in Il vizio occulto (1989) and La polizia dell’anima (1990). He  collaborated with François Furet (Livre et société au XVIIIe siècle, 1970) and Michel Foucault (I, Pierre …

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Orazio Irrera, “Toward a Postcolonial Genealogy of Environmental Subjectivities” A presentation in the series… “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” A workshop organized with the support of the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths and of mf / materiali foucaultiani February 21 , 5-7 pm (RHB) 141 Goldsmiths University of London …

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Stéphane Haber, Du néolibéralisme au néocapitalisme ? Quelques réflexions à partir de Foucault, Actuel Marx, Volume 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-72 In French and English http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/amx.051.0059 Résumé From Neoliberalism to Neocapitalism. Some Reflections Drawn from Foucault The article takes up Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism in the 1970s. It begins by showing how this analysis …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, A Note On “Becker On Ewald On Foucault On Becker” : American Neoliberalism And Michel Foucault’s 1979 Birth Of Biopolitics Lectures. A conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt” [1] This is a response to a discussion linked to earlier on this blog: American Neoliberalism and Michel …

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Schlosser, Jennifer A. (2013). “Bourdieu and Foucault: A Conceptual Integration Toward an Empirical Sociology of Prisons”. Critical criminology , p. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-012-9164-1 Abstract Although the similarities between them are under analyzed, Pierre Bourdieu’s and Michel Foucault’s theories of culture and power are interrelated in some compelling ways. Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977) and …

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A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot Date: 21 February 2013, 6:00pm to 21 February 2013, 9:00pm Location: Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London Free Lecture by Étienne Balibar (CRMEP). A well-known essay published by Foucault in 1966 on the work of Maurice Blanchot, La pensée du dehors, was translated …

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