Foucault News

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

Michael Guilfoyle, Towards a grounding of the agentive subject in narrative therapy, Theory & Psychology, October 2012 vol. 22 no. 5, 626-642 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354311433446 Abstract This paper examines the tensions between narrative therapy’s self-identification as a Foucauldian poststructural practice, and its attachment to the notion of personal agency. Michael White—narrative therapy’s primary author—used Foucault’s work as …

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Kioupkiolis, A. The agonistic turn of critical reason: Critique and freedom in Foucault and Castoriadis, European Journal of Social Theory, Volume 15, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 385-402 https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431012439866 Abstract Straddling the divide between universalism and relativism, agonistic reason as construed by Foucault and Castoriadis dismisses universal foundations without becoming context-bound or inescapably subjectivist. It …

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Government, Truth, Subject – Michel Foucault and the late lecture courses at Collège de France. A colloquium at the Jan van Eyck Academie. 7 November 2012 Jan van Eyck Academie Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht Netherlands The colloquium is devoted to Foucault’s late lectures at Collège de France (Du gouvernement des vivants [unpublished], Subjectivité et …

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Marie-Christine Leps, Thought of the outside: Foucault contra Agamben. Radical Philosophy, (Sep/Oct 2012) Further info It is gladly believed that a culture is more attached to its values than to its forms, that these can easily be modified, abandoned, taken up again; that only meaning is deeply rooted. This is to misunderstand … that people …

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Cities, Space and Development Seminars at LSE Colin Gordon, (Independent Scholar, Editor and Translator of the works of Michel Foucault) Governmentality: How much is enough? Seminar Convenor: Dr Sharad Chari London School of Economics, Geography and Environment 11 December 2012 Tuesday 4-6 pm Room V112, Tower 2 London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton …

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Soirée exceptionnelle à l’occasion de la présentation du livre Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l’aveu en justice, un livre inédit de Michel Foucault d’après des leçons données à l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) en 1981, édité par Fabienne Brion et Bernard E. Harcourt aux Presses universitaires de Louvain associées à University of Chicago Press. …

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Workshop “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” 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 Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4-6 pm (RHB 140) Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths College): “Sub-power and surplus-value: A …

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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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