Foucault News

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

Sayer, A. Power, causality and normativity: A critical realist critique of Foucault, Journal of Political Power, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2012, Pages 179-194 https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2012.698898 Abstract A critical realist account is developed of two aspects of the study of power which are normally left implicit: the theory of causation presupposed and the way in which …

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The Foucault Society Reading Group Michel Foucault “Society Must Be Defended”, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 Friday, November 30 7:30-9:30pm Location: CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Room 5489 (Please note new room.) We invite you to join us as we continue our in-depth discussion of Foucault’s lectures. The group …

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Between Deleuze and Foucault Purdue University, College of Liberal Arts November 30 – December 1, 2012 An international conference exploring the relations between the work of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Michel Foucault (1926-1984). pdf flyer Plenary Speaker: William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University Participants: Marco Altamirano, Purdue University; Alain Beaulieu, Laurentian University; Thomas Flynn, Emory University; Colin Koopman, University …

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Workshop “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” Part 3 organized at Goldsmiths College (London) by Yari Lanci, Amedeo Policante and Martina Tazzioli, with the support of the Department of Politics and of mf / materiali foucaultiani Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris-Est Créteil /Sapienza Università di Roma): “Foucault and Parrhesia: Can Truth …

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Isin, E.F. Citizens without nations, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 450-467 https://doi.org/10.1068/d19210 Abstract To broach the question of whether citizenship could exist without (or beyond) community, this paper discusses genealogies of citizenship as membership that binds an individual to the com- munity of birth (of the self …

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Kaden, D.A., Foucault, feminism, and liberationist religion: Discourse, power, and the politics of interpretation in the feminist emancipatory project of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Neotestamentica, Volume 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-104 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43048846 Abstract The work of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ESF) has been celebrated as a significant and ground-breaking contribution to the fields of biblical and …

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Eve, M.P. Whose line is it anyway?: Enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon, Textual Practice, Volume 26, Issue 5, 1 October 2012, Pages 921-939 Further info Abstract This piece effects a critical revision of the interactions between late Foucault and the works of Thomas Pynchon through the theme of Enlightenment, …

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Ouverture de la salle de lecture Foucault au CCFEF, l’Université de Varsovie (25 octobre 2012) M. Pierre Buhler, Ambassadeur de France en Pologne, a participé le 25 octobre, dans le nouveau bâtiment de l’Université de Varsovie abritant la faculté de Néophilologie et l’Institut de Linguistique appliquée, à l’ouverture inaugurale de la salle de lecture Michel …

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