Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 11 A Special Issue on Foucault and Pragmatism Guest Edited by Colin Koopman Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that provides a forum for scholarship engaging the intellectual legacy of Michel Foucault, interpreted in the broadest possible terms. We welcome …
Security, Life and Death: Governmentality and Biopower in the Post-9/11 Era CALL FOR PAPERS: For an edited collection of scholarly papers on the above topic to be published with de Sitter Publications. Editor: Claudio Colaguori, PhD. York University Theorizations of power through a Foucaultian conceptual paradigm continue to predominate analyses of the present geo-political order. …
Dianna Taylor, Countering Modernity: Foucault and Arendt on Race and Racism, Telos, 154 (Spring 2011): 119-140 https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154119 Analysis of a possible intellectual affinity between philosopher Michel Foucault and political theorist Hannah Arendt is valuable in its own right, given the insight it offers into the work of these two important thinkers. At the same time, …
Thanks to Stuart at Progressive Geographies for this information History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural or culturally …
Strausz, Erzsebet. “Foucault, Critique and Security/Studies” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Annual Conference “Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition”, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, Mar 16, 2011 . 2011-01-25 Abstract: This paper investigates the implications of a Foucauldian perspective for interrogating both practices of security and …
Politics Beyond the Biopolitical Subject A Symposium Brisbane, Australia, December 8-9, 2011 Hosted by Griffith University Funded by the Finnish Academy The theory of biopolitics has, in the years since Michel Foucault first deployed the concept, taken a decidedly affirmative turn. No longer is biopolitics theorized simply to expose the violence done to human beings …
FOUCAULT ET LA RENAISSANCE COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL Toulouse, 7, 8, 9 mars 2012 Colloque organisé par le laboratoire PLH de l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail et l’Institut Universitaire de France, avec la collaboration du CERPHI et de l’UMR5037 (Lyon) Le présent colloque vise, dans une optique naturellement pluridisciplinaire, à convier littéraires, philosophes, historiens à penser le rapport …
Gary Gutting, Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960, The Oxford History of Philosophy, 978-0-19-922703-7 | Hardback | 10 March 2011 Review in The Guardian Description The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of …
« Une histoire au présent : Les historiens et Michel Foucault aujourd’hui » 30, 31 mai – 1er juin 2011 Aix-en-Provence Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme salle Georges Duby Colloque organisé par Damien BOQUET, Blaise DUFAL et Pauline LABEY Institut Universitaire de France CNRS – Université d’Aix-Marseille I UMR TELEMME EHESS – Centre de …
The IVR XXV WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY will take place at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, from August 15th to 20th 2011. All the papers effectively presented in this special workshop will be translated into Portuguese, with the permission of the author, and published as a book in Brazil, possibily a …
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