Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Stuart Elden has offered some preliminary observations on this new French publication on his blog He has also published some comments by Colin Gordon on this volume as well on his blog
THE FOUCAULT EFFECT 1991-2011 I am reposting this notice about this important conference with some new links. The audio recordings of this conference were available at the excellent Backdoor Broadcasting Company which ceased operations in 2021. Stuart Elden has provided an overview of the conference on his blog Progressive Geographies and has written up his …
7 PROPOS DU SEPTIÈME ANGE D’après Michel Foucault Création collective de Bruno Boulzaguet Jeu : Bruno Boulzaguet Percussions : Jean Christophe Feldhandler Lumières : Olivier Oudiou. Penseur excentrique, écrivain prophétique et linguiste « juché au point extrême du délire » (Selon Michel Foucault), Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919) était animé d’une confiance absolue dans les raisonnements les …
Roberto Nigro Maître de conférences invité à l’EHESS donnera cinq conférences sur les Démonstrations de pouvoir Le jeudi 9 juin 2011 15h00-17h00 105, bd. Raspail, Salle 11 “Violence, domination, résistance : trois concepts clés dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault” Le mardi 14 juin 2011 18h30-20h30 Salle 1, Centre Parisien d’Études Critiques, 37 bis rue du …
The Centre for Studies in Otherness invites papers for the e-journal issue Otherness: Essays and Studies 2.2. Otherness: Essays and Studies, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary e-journal, publishes research articles from and across different academic disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study. We …
Epistemologies of the Political, the Global and the International A workshop to reflect collectively on the ways we know the ‘factual’ world we research. For further info see this site Organised by the Emerging Securities Research Unit, Keele University and co-sponsored by the BISA Poststructuralist Politics Working Group Keynote speaker: Prof Michael Shapiro, University of …
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Special Issue on ‘Freedom and Power’ Call for Papers Ever since Livy proclaimed that ‘freedom is to be in one’s own power’, if not from a long time before, the relationship between freedom and power has been an enduring concern of political theorists. It has withstood even …
International Conference on Autobiography “Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription” University College Cork, 2-3 September 2011 Confirmed Key-Note Speaker: Professor Patricia Clough (CUNY) There are contesting versions of autobiography. We’ve travelled far since Georges Gusdorf traced the origins of autobiography back to the origins of language itself, saying “the very first man who …
Foucault Inspires Trio From Hartford Courant August 2025. Direct link no longer available A venerable venue with a varied musical menu, Real Art Ways serves the highly original, sizzling, simpatico music by the trio Parrhesia on June 11 at 8 p.m. at the contemporary arts center, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, USA Inspired by the French …
MANCHESTER Workshops in Political Theory 2011 31 August – 2 September 2011 Call for Papers – Ontology and Politics Workshop Convenors: Paul Rekret (Queen Mary), Simon Choat (Kingston), Clayton Chin (Queen Mary) Description Despite its pervasiveness, the question of the relation between ontology and politics continues to be a crucial one for Continental philosophy. While …
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