Stuart Elden has posted a quick summary and comments on the forthcoming translation of Foucault’s 1984 lectures The Courage of Truth on his Progressive Geographies blog.
Stuart Elden has posted a quick summary and comments on the forthcoming translation of Foucault’s 1984 lectures The Courage of Truth on his Progressive Geographies blog.
The Portail Michel Foucault has just listed a number of seminars and conferences on Foucault taking place from September onwards in France. Et si Foucault n’avait pas tort? 16/09/10 – 06/01/11 Foucault et le droit 22/09/10 – 01/12/10 Le philosophe et les livres 29/09/10 – 01/10/10 Foucault-Nietzsche : nouveaux regards 07/10/10
This is a rather interesting interview with Eric Kluitenberg who applies Foucault’s work to the creation of online archives. You can find the full interview on the Institute of Network Cultures blog Extract from interview Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, …
Update: August 2025. Details of this have long since vanished from the web, but here is a video of Dreyfus discussing Moby Dick uploaded in 2018 Sept. 17 Potter lecture Hubert Dreyfus, “Luring Back the Gods: Polytheism from ‘The Odyssey’ to ‘Moby Dick’” will be the topic of the 49th annual Potter Memorial Lecture at …
CFP: Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History This year’s theme: Genealogies Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 3-5, 2011 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 The Executive Committee of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois …
The first of 7 videos Giorgio Agamben conducting a seminar on the creation of the subject in the work of of Michel Foucault. Agamben examined the idea of the subject (through a discussion of the role of the author) by contrasting theories of subjectivity between Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. Agamben discussed the chiasmatic relationship …
Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending, Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2010 About the Book What does globalization mean for the principle of state sovereignty and for the power and functioning of states? Whereas realists assert the continued importance of states, constructivists contend that various political entities …
Mariana Valverde, ‘Specters of Foucault in Law and Society Scholarship’ Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol 6 (October 2010) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102209-152951 Abstract To reflect on how we, in 2010, might make the best use of the analytical tools developed by Michel Foucault, we need first to go back to the 1970s and situate his …
Book published in 2013 Omar Moufakkir, Yvette Reisinger, The host gaze in global tourism Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists’ perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, ‘The Tourist Gaze’, which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is a unique book for researchers and students as …
Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet, ‘Accounting for Foucault’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, no 6, vol 21, August 2010, 486-495 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2009.08.006 Abstract Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality has been central to critical accounting research for two decades, a centrality that has placed systems of calculation as the starting point of discussions of the state, the firm …
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