Foucault News

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

Ilivitzky, M., Origins of biopolitics: Tensions between Foucault and Arendt [Orígenes de la biopolítica: tensiones entre Foucault y Arendt] Araucaria Volume 14, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 24-41 Download pdf here Abstract This article aims to explore the differences between the views that Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt respectively held of the political sphere in general …

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Neiva Furlin, Is a sociology of the subject possible? An approach to the theories of Foucault and Touraine [É possível uma sociologia do sujeito? Uma abordagem sobre as teorias de Foucault e Touraine] Sociologias Issue 29, January 2012, Pages 274-311 https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-45222012000100011 Abstract This research essay analyzes the theoretical concepts of the notion of “subject” in …

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Reblogged from Grupo de Estudos Foucaultianos Séminaire “Avec Foucault” – Lille 3, France 2012-2013 Séminaire organisé par Philippe Sabot (Lille 3 / UMR « Savoirs, textes, langage ») Ce séminaire est destiné à développer les activités menées au sein du groupe de travail « Avec Foucault » en 2012. Il s’agit d’une part de poursuivre la démarche de présentation …

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Originally posted on The Funambulist:
The Power of Architecture – photomontage by the author (2012) Recently, I was lucky enough to be asked to write an article for the seventh issue of the Chilean journal SPAM and I decided to use this opportunity to articulate the clumsy addition of ideas that I started to touch…

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique, Editions Fayard, A paraître, le 31 octobre 2012 Plus d’informations sur le site de l’auteur Présentation de l’éditeur À partir du milieu des années 1970, Michel Foucault a consacré au néolibéralisme de nombreux textes qui comptent parmi les plus controversés de …

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Tom Roach, Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS, and the Politics of Shared Estrangement, SUNY Press, 2012, ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3999-0 Description Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy. Borrowing its title from a 1981 interview of Michel Foucault, Friendship as a Way of Life develops the …

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New Foucault: A Symposium Friday, 9 November 2012 Building 2.G.04 and 3.G.55, Bankstown Campus of The University of Western Sydney, Australia web page The influence of Michel Foucault’s work through the Humanities and social sciences has been sustained across more than three decades, but earlier orthodox understandings and glosses, focused on major texts and central …

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Brett Neilson, Ageing, Experience, Biopolitics: Life’s Unfolding, Body and Society, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, September 2012, Pages 44-71 https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X12446377 Abstract In the wake of Foucault, the debate on biopolitics has focused on the tensions of bíos and zoé, community and immunity, generation and thanatopolitics. What remains obscure in these accounts is the experiential aspect of …

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Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction: Parliamentary enclosure and spatial rationalities in the transition from feudalism to capitalism, Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 209-219 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.02.002 Abstract Recent applications of Foucauldian categories in geography, spatial history and the history of town planning have opened up interesting new …

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