Foucault News

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

Georg Winkel, ‘Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis’, Forest Policy and Economics Volume 16, March 2012, Pages 81–92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 Abstract In this paper, a review is conducted on the use of the concepts of Michel Foucault in forest policy analysis. In doing so, three major …

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Johanna Oksala, ‘Sexual Experience: Foucault, Phenomenology, and Feminist Theory’, Hypatia, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2011 , pp. 207-223(17) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01153.x Abstract: This paper explicates Foucault’s conception of experience and defends it as an important theoretical resource for feminist theory. It analyzes Linda Alcoff’s devastating critique of Foucault’s account of sexuality and her reasons for advocating …

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The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies We are delighted to announce the second colloquium in our new series: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:00-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY Verena Erlenbusch (University of Sussex and Emory University) “Sovereignty and Governmentality: Mapping Power With Butler …

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Short course for PhD students only. Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique – analytical strategies for critique of power (4-6 May 2011) Venue Department of Management , Politics & Philosophy Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 18a 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Seminar Coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen Participants Professor Mitchell Dean, Macquarie University, Sydney, Professor Sverre Raffnsøe, Department of Management, Politics & …

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Conférence de Giorgio AGAMBEN : Archéologie du commandement et de la volonté Mardi 5 avril 18h30 – Salle des Conférences, Lycée Henri IV, 23 rue Clovis, 75005 Paris Conférence organisée par le CIPh dans le cadre de la convention avec le Lycée Henri IV. Auteur d’une oeuvre déjà considérable, Giorgio Agamben a entrepris une vaste …

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Call for Papers The imperfect Historian: Disability Histories in Europe «I’m not a professional historian, but nobody is perfect» Michel Foucault, University of Vermont, 27 October 1982 Just like gender, race and class, disability has become a standard analytical category in the historian’s tool chest nowadays. Up until now Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky’s book …

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“Apparatuses; Matter; Materialities.” 1st annual graduate conference Location: Science and Technology Studies at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dates May 20-22, 2011: The concept of the apparatus – both in the general sense of the term, and that employed by Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben – is in many ways a useful one for considering the …

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ANNA BETBEZE: ‘Moss Garden’ Kate Werble Gallery 83 Vandam Street SoHo New York Until March 12 2011 Review by Karen Rosenberg Flokati rugs, those fluffy white coverings traditionally handmade in the Pindus Mountains in Europe and prized by contemporary designers, become wild-and-woolly wall reliefs in Anna Betbeze’s first New York solo. Ms. Betbeze dyes, scorches, …

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