Foucault News

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

Matthew Bannister, ‘“I’m Set Free…”: The Velvet Underground, 1960s Counterculture, and Michel Foucault’, Popular Music and Society, Volume 33, Issue 2 May 2010 , pages 163 – 178 https://doi.org/10.1080/03007760903142889 Abstract This article explores concepts of freedom, repression, and sexuality in Western society and popular music, in relation to selected aspects of Michel Foucault’s writing and …

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Corey McCall, The Art of Life: Foucault’s Reading of Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Modern Life”, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 2, 2010, pp. 138-157 https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.24.2.0138 In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. In his essay “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault compares the role of modernity in the work …

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Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 A workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book took place in Nice. See here for a video of the program. See also this press release You can can also …

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Sabine Audrerie, A l’ami qui m’a sauvé la vie. Compte rendu de Matthieu Lindon Ce qu’aimer veut dire. Paris: P.O.L., 2011, La Croix, 12 janvier 2011 L’écrivain et journaliste Mathieu Lindon fait le très beau récit de son amitié avec Michel Foucault et de ses liens avec son père, Jérôme, fondateur des Éditions de Minuit …

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Megan Warin, ‘Foucault’s progeny: Jamie Oliver and the art of governing obesity’, Social Theory & Health, (1 December 2010) https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2010.2 Abstract Jamie Oliver is an English celebrity chef who has publicly politicised the relationships between class and food in Britain. No longer a simple chef, Oliver is presented as an evangelical saint, salvation of British …

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Eliot Weinberger “‘Damn right,’ I said”, Review of Decision Points by George W. Bush, London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 pages 3-5. Read rest of review here In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with …

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From the Portail Michel Foucault PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE « USAGES DE FOUCAULT » 1ère Journée (jeudi 3 mars 2011) Usages (Ouverture) 8h30-9h Accueil des participants 9h-9h45 Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE (Lycée J. Jaurès, Montreuil) : « De l’usage à l’usager » I/ L’archipel carcéral 9h45-10h30 Karine BOCQUET (Lille 3) : « Foucault et la question carcérale : …

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TOMÁS IBAÑEZ : “Réflexions à propos de l’anarchisme…” 28 janvier 2011 – de 15h à 18h, au CEDRATS (Centre de Ressources sur les Alternatives Sociales), 27 Montée Saint-Sébastien – 69001 Lyon, Métro C – Station Croix Paquet, ou Métro A – Station Hôtel de Ville Présentation de l’intervention “ Après quelques considérations préliminaires sur les …

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CFP: Foucault und Organisation 19-20 May 2011 at Technische Universität Chemnitz. You can find a link to the pdf of the call for papers here Das Forum ‘Kritische Organisationsforschung’, eine transdisziplinäre Forschungsinitiative der Chemnitzer Juniorprofessur Europäisches Management, veranstaltet vom 19.-20. Mai 2011 einen Workshop zum Schwerpunkt ‘Foucault und Organisation’. Neben dem Schwerpunktthema sollen “in programmatischer …

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