The first issue of an exciting new half-yearly peer reviewed journal entirely dedicated to Foucault and the applications of his thought materiali foucaultiani is now available online. It is open access and freely available for download. The first issue includes a special section devoted to the “Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Foucault”. …
Herrmann, A. F. (2012). “”I Know I’m Unlovable”: Desperation, Dislocation, Despair, and Discourse on the Academic Job Hunt”. Qualitative inquiry, 18 (3), p. 247-55 https://doi.org/10.1177/107780041143156 Abstract Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. …
Richard Sennett: ‘Big society? It’s to keep the bankers happy … ‘ Interview by Andrew Anthony, The Observer, Sunday 12 February 2012 Q: You were friends with the celebrated and late French intellectual Michel Foucault. What was he like? RS: He was a great friend to me and his other friends. I know he was …
Foucault Reading Group The Courage of Truth Manchester University 10am – 12 noon in Geoffrey Manton Room 333, fortnightly, commencing 24th February 2012 This reading group will focus on the last lectures given by Michel Foucault at The Collège de France in February-March 1984, a few months before his death. Continuing the theme of the …
Jessica Whyte, Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene Published later as chapter in New Critical Legal Thinking. Law and the Political, Edited By Matthew Stone, Illan Wall, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Law Press, 2012 The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at UWS TIME: March 21, 2-4pm …
La gouvernementalité socialiste Quatrième soirée-débat : avec Pierre Dardot et Christian Laval Saint-Simon et Marx : gouvernement des hommes et administration des choses mardi 20 mars 2012, à 19h au Lieu-Dit (6 rue Sorbier, Paris, M° Ménilmontant) France Présentation du séminaire : Dans une formule provocatrice, Michel Foucault estimait « qu’il n’y a pas de …
Encountering the Other: Philosophical Perspectives on Recognition Date: Saturday, 31st March 2012 Time: 9am-6pm Venue: Newman House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland Speakers: Lois McNay (Oxford University) Alice Le Goff (Université Paris V Descartes) Katherine Morris (Oxford University) Arto Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam) Respondents: To be Confirmed Workshop …
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 …
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