Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Munro, I. (2011), The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations after Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews. August https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00320.x Abstract This paper provides a review of the reception of Foucault’s later work on biopolitics within management and organization studies and contrasts this with the reception of these ideas in sister fields of research in the social …

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Alexandre Macmillan, Michel Foucault’s Techniques of the Self and the Christian Politics of Obedience, Theory, Culture & Society July 2011 vol. 28 no. 4 3-25 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411405348 Abstract Foucault repeatedly argued that his work on techniques of the self were not a denial of his previous work on 18th- and 19th-century Europe, but a different way …

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Michael Dillon and Andrew W Neal (Eds.), Foucault on Politics, Security and War. Palgrave Macmillan. January 2011. Description This diverse collection of essays is the first to specifically engage Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war. It is also the first to take up the provocations found in Michel Foucault’s recently published Collège …

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You can find audio files of some of Foucault’s lectures posted on UbuWeb. See Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies for some corrections on the details listed on Ubuweb Truth & Subjectivity: Howison Lectures, UC Berkeley (1980, English) 4 lectures The Culture Of The Self, Berkley Lectures (1983) 3 Lectures These lectures by Foucault held at …

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Thomas Lemke, Critique and Experience in Foucault, Theory, Culture & Society, July 2011 vol. 28 no. 4 26-48 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411404907 Abstract It is widely known that by the end of the 1970s, Foucault had begun to refer to ‘experience’ to account for his intellectual trajectory and to redirect the work on The History of Sexuality. However, …

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From Stuart Elden’s blog Radical Foucault – An International Conference September 8 & 9, 2011. 9.30am – 6.30pm University of East London The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London is pleased to announce that registration is now open for Radical Foucault, a two day conference which will re-assess Foucault’s contribution …

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Brisbane Foucault Reading Group Time: 12-2pm every Tuesday fortnight starting 9 August. Venue: R614 (the top floor of the library) at Kelvin Grove campus, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Aims of the group The aim of this group is to provide an informal setting to read and discuss the work of French theorist Michel …

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Colóquio Internacional Kant 22 de agosto de 2011 Auditório 106 IFCS/UFRJ Brasil 11:00 – Roberto Nigro – (Institut für Theorie, Zürcher Hochshule der Künst) – La critique de l’anthropologie philosophique comme enjeu majeur pour repenser le politique (comunicação com tradução simultânea) 12:00 – Almoço 14:00 – Daniel Omar Perez – (PUC-PR) – Michel Foucault como …

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John Rapko (2011) ‘Enchantment and Malaise’: Michel Foucault on Manet. Review of Michel Foucault’s Manet and the Object of Painting, Artcritical. The Online magazine of arts and ideas, Sunday 31st July 2011. In 1967 Michel Foucault obtained a contract for a book on Manet, tentatively titled La Noir et la Surface. There’s no evidence to …

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Gavin Kendall, Michel Foucault, Oxford bibliographies online, 27 July 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756384-0021 The introduction and general overviews section of this is available for free. The rest needs to be purchased or accessed via an institution. Contents Introduction General Overviews Biographies Selected Major Works Lectures Interviews and Essays Bibliographies Journals Knowledge and Discourse Madness and Mental Illness …

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