Michael Welch, Counterveillance: How Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons reversed the optics, Theoretical Criminology August 2011 vol. 15 no. 3 301-313 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610396651 Abstract The analysis herein considers the dynamics of panopticism by developing further the concept of counter-surveillance—or counterveillance—whereby prison officials rather than the prisoners become the target of unwanted attention. While …
Magritte and Foucault at Moderna Museet until 6 November Stockholm 1 September 2011 – 6 November 2011 “Moderna Museet Essä” is a new series of essays published by the Modern Museeum of Stockholm and Axl Books. The first essay was written by Lars O Ericsson : Magritte – Foucault. Om orden och tingen (Magritte-Foucault. Worlds …
Ben Golder, Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights, Social Legal Studies September 2011 vol. 20 no. 3, 2011 pp. 283-312 https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911404857 Abstract Michel Foucault is not often read as a theorist of human rights. On the one hand, there is a tendency to read his works of the mid-1970s — his celebrated …
Steven James Scott, Foucault’s Room A short film posted on Vimeo. Video is password protected Based on Michel Foucault’s stay in Warsaw in the late 50s, Foucault’s Room is a visual exploration of the post-war architecture of Warsaw over a text riddled with innuendos about erotic encounters under close scrutiny by the Communist authorities.
MICHEL FOUCAULT: A JUDICIALIZAÇÃO DA VIDA PRIMEIRO COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL MICHEL FOUCAULT : A JUDICIALIZAÇÃO DA VIDA Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, 5, 6 e 7 de outubro de 2011 Programação 5/10/2011 13:30 – MESA DE ABERTURA 14:00 – 16:30 JEAN FRANÇOIS BERT (Centre Michel Foucault, Institut Interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du Contemporain/FRANÇA). Sécurité, dangerosité, biopolitique : trois versants …
Sam Binkley, “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Social Practice and the Government of Neoliberal Interiority” Journal of the History of Human Sciences 24: 3 July 2011. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111412877 Abstract This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neoliberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it is argued that the constellations of power identified …
Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment The ideas of these two towering thinkers of the 20th century, Gramsci and Foucault, have all too often fallen into opposing camps. Radhakrishnan (1987) argues that Foucault’s understanding of the subject remains philosophical, while Gramsci’s continual interrogation of the relation between the individual and the group allows for concrete political …
Stuart Elden “How should we do the history of territory?” Additional details 14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Abstract …
Naja Vucina, Claus Drejer, Peter Triantafillou, ‘Histories and freedom of the present: Foucault and Skinner’, History of the Human Sciences August 18, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111415176 Abstract This article compares the ways in which Michel Foucault’s and Quentin Skinner’s historical analyses seek to unsettle the limits on present forms of freedom. We do so by comparing their …
Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, Human Nature: Justice vs Power. The Chomsky-Foucault debate, Edited by Fons Elders A new edition of this work released with a new introduction by Fons Elders: In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the twentieth century’s most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel …
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