The Brisbane Foucault Reading Group will run this semester with the assistance of the Centre for Learning Innovation in the Faculty of Education at the Queensland University of Technology. It will run from 12-2pm every Tuesday fortnight starting 8 March 2011. The venue in March is Room L113/4 and the venue for subsequent meetings is …
The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies Please join us for the first colloquium in our new series: Stephanie Clare, “Foucault, Geopower, and the Transformation of the Earth” Time: 3 March 2011· 19:00 – 21:30 Location CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY, USA Free and …
Paul Taborsky, The Logic of Cultures – Three structures of philosophical thought (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010). Description This book proposes to identify three long-term structures in causal reasoning – in particular, in terms of the relationship between cause and identity – that appear to be of value in categorizing and organizing various trends in philosophical …
Mark LeVine, ‘The shaping of a New World Order’, Aljazeera website, 6 February, 2011 Tagline: If the revolutions of 2011 succeed, they will force the creation of a very different regional and world system. Many commentators are comparing Egypt to Iran of 32 years ago, mostly to warn of the risks of the country descending …
Katharine Daneski and Paul Higgs ‘How far can Foucault take us? An analysis of the changing discourses and limitations of the medical treatment of apoplexy and stroke’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, December 15, 2010 Full text of article Abstract This article examines the conditions under which …
Claire Blencowe ‘Foucault’s and Arendt’s ‘insider view’ of biopolitics: a critique of Agamben’, History of the Human Sciences, December 2010 vol. 23 no. 5 113-130 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110375762 Abstract This article revisits Arendt’s and Foucault’s converging accounts of modern (bio)politics and the entry of biological life into politics. Agamben’s influential account of these ideas is rejected as …
James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January, 2011 James Miller is the author of one of the biographies of Foucault: The Passion of Michel Foucault From Booklist Miller combines short biographies and compact synopses of 12 philosophers’ ideas of wisdom. In a format suiting those intrigued by …
Judith Revel, Foucault, une pensée du discontinu, Paris, Fayard, 2010. Description La pensée de Michel Foucault désoriente : considérée parfois comme celle d’un philosophe, parfois encore comme celle d’un historien ou d’un critique de la culture, elle ne cesse de déplacer ses choix méthodologiques, ses champs d’enquête et son outillage conceptuel ; elle surprend par …
Lynne Huffer and Elizabeth Wilson ‘Mad for Foucault: A Conversation’, Theory, Culture & Society January 4, 2011 vol. 27 no. 7-8 324-338. Abstract This two-part article summarizes the major arguments of Lynne Huffer’s 2010 book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. The second part of the piece is a dialogue between Huffer …
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. Description Voici la transcription de la première année des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Sa publication marquera une date dans la « réception » de Foucault. On ne pourra plus …
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