The second South Asian Governmentalities Workshop will be held at the British Academy in London on Friday 30 March 2012. This is part of a series of workshops organised through the BASAS South Asian Governmentalities Research Group. Attendance is free but limited to those who pre-register. The concept of governmentality has exerted an ever growing …
Foucault Circle 2012 conference Canisius College Buffalo, NY Further information All sessions will be held on the main floor of the Montante Cultural Center, located at Main and Eastwood Streets on the Canisius College campus. Friday evening, March 30th Reception – Time and location TBA Saturday, March 31st 9-10:45 – Power and Resistance Moderator: Pär …
Beatrice Hibou, The Force of Obedience: The Political Economy of Repression in Tunisia, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011 Publisher’s page Description This highly original book is a detailed analysis of the everyday mechanisms of domination and repression that enable political regimes to function and to secure the submission of their populations. It takes modern-day Tunisia as …
James D. Faubion, An Anthropology of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2011 Description Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault’s investigation of ethics, James D. Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault’s specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is …
Simon Thorpe, In Defence of Foucault: The Incessancy of Resistance, Critical Legal Thinking Blog, 7 Feb 2012 Extract In a recent article, ‘Foucault and the Revolutionary Self-Castration of the Left’, Jérôme E. Roos argued that: “Because it connects power with knowledge through discourse, and because it posits that knowledge and power are continually reproduced through …
This is the last page from a forthcoming short graphic novel written by Lauren Kinney and drawn by by Matt MacFarland. Link to page 1 Link to page 2 Link to page 3 Link to page 4 link to page 5 link to page 6 link to page 7 link to page 8
The Foucault Society, NYC Bernard Gendron, “Foucault’s 1968” Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:30-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY, USA Abstract: Foucault’s relation to May 1968 is crucial for understanding the transformation in his theory and practice in the years 1969-1974, leading to the publication of Discipline and Punish. This …
Julien Pallotta, L’Ecole mutuelle au-delà de Foucault, Editions EuroPhilosophie 2012, Bibliothèque de Philosophie sociale et Politique. ISSN 2110-5251 Résumé Ce travail, tout en partant des analyses de l’appareil scolaire dans Surveiller et punir, interroge la description que Foucault livre de l’école mutuelle comme ultime rationalisation disciplinaire de la « machine à apprendre ». Pour cela, …
Terry Flew, ‘Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates’, Thesis Eleven, February 2012 vol. 108 no. 1 44-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136114214 Abstract Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich von …
Anne Brunon-Ernst, ed. Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon, London: Routledge, March 2012 Pdf flyer Description In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, …
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