Foucault News

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

The Foucault Society, NYC Call for Papers: 2011 Colloquium Series The Foucault Society is pleased to announce a new colloquium series, which will begin in January 2011 and meet monthly in New York City. As a forum for new research and works-in-progress, this series will provide an opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to …

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See also this post for Hardt’s published work around this topic. Nick Levine, ‘Hardt waxes theoretical on revolution‘, Yale Daily News, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 First couple of paragraphs from report. See here for rest of article Marxist political and literary theorist Michael Hardt came to Yale Monday to spark revolution — not with petitions …

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Sarah Wilson, The Visual World of French Theory. Yale: Yale Univeristy Press, Figurations, 2010. For further details see publisher’s site. Description This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s—Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them—and the artists of their times, most particularly …

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Macmillan, Alexandre. “Foucault’s “Materiality of the Incorporeal” and Communication in Modern Society” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Suntec Singapore International Convention, Exhibition Centre, Suntec City, Singapore, Jun 22, 2010 Abstract The ontological status of communication and its material/immaterial nature is one of the most important questions for a philosophical …

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From the Portail Michel Foucault L’ART DE GOUVERNER du Friday 22/10/10 au Saturday 23/10/10 Journées d’études organisées à l’Université de Créteil, Site du mail des Mèches, Bâtiment d’Economie les 22 et 23 Octobre 2010 Vendredi 22 Octobre : Accueil et petit-déjeuner à 9h30 – Salle 015 Problèmes de philosophie politique, sous la présidence de Pierre …

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American Comparitive Literature Association 2011 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 31st – April 3rd, 2011 “World Literature / Comparative Literature” Seminar: Foucault and/on Literature Seminar Organizer: Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware-Wilmington, Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware-Wilmington Summary The question of how the work of Michel Foucault bears on the study of literature has been controversial. …

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Michelle Brady, ‘What ethnography contributes to studies of governmentality’. Paper presented at the 11th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, October 2010, October 7-8 2010. Published as Brady, M. (2011) Researching governmentalities through ethnography: the case of Australian welfare reforms and programs for single parents Critical Policy Studies. Vol 5. No. 3. October. pp.265-283 Abstract In …

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