Foucault News

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

Johanna Oksala, ‘Foucault’s politicization of ontology’, Continental Philosophy Review, published online 8 October 2010 Download pdf from this page Abstract The paper explicates a politicized conception of reality with the help of Michel Foucault’s critical project. I contend that Foucault’s genealogies of power problematize the relationship between ontology and politics. His idea of productive power …

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Ecole doctorale : 27/28/29 avril 2011. IMEC. Caen L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose, pour la troisième année consécutive, avec l’aide de la Fondation de France une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est, comme les années précédentes de mettre en …

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Frank Welz, ‘Lost in Agency? Kant, Foucault and the Task of Sociology’ Paper delivered at the Social Agency. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of the 21st Century Humanist Sociology Conference, Wrocław, Poland, on 20-22 October 2010 Abstract No sociology without agency: Without the discovery of social agency there would not be any sociology. (1) If anything …

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Paul Patton, ‘Activism, Philosophy and Actuality in Deleuze and Foucault’ Deleuze Studies, Dec 2010, Vol. 4, No. supplement : pp. 84-103 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45331436 Abstract Deleuze and Foucault shared a period of political activism and both drew connections between their activism and their respective approaches to philosophy. However, despite their shared political commitments and praise of each …

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These cards from the Unemployed Philosophers Guild have been around for a while – but a reminder just before Christmas might come in handy. Michel Foucault Card A Michel Foucault card for your own personal discourse! Each card comes with an envelope and a sticker sheet filled with quotes from Foucault plus traditional messages like …

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A workshop on Foucault and Habermas is being convened in the context of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, to be held between 31 August and 2 September 2011 at the University of Manchester. Papers are invited on any aspect of the social and political thought of Foucault, Habermas, the Foucault/Habermas debate and the Habermas/Rawls …

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Edited Essay Collection 2nd call for Abstracts – Final Deadline Jan. 15, 2011 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and the ‘spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore sovereign power and control over the body through a consideration of the cinema’s, arguable, co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate aims …

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CFP: The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English Location: France Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-12-15 The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d’Angers, France, will be hosting an international conference in collaboration with Edge Hill University, U.K. on “The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in …

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