Foucault News

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

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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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 …

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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 …

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