Foucault News

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

Foucault and St Paul. Special Issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 11.1 Winter 2010 The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with the phenomenon of religious and cultural theory. Visit the journal’s website for …

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CALL FOR PAPERS Radical Foucault: A One Day Conference Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London. The publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-84 in English will be complete in April 2011 and his first Collège de France lecture course, La Volonté de Savoir will be published for the …

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Performance in New York by Annie Dorsen based on the television debate between Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. Jan 6-22 See this interview with author Annie Dorsen New York director Annie Dorsen takes the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration …

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Inhabiting Institutions in Britain, 1700-1950 A two-day conference of the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London, in London on 14 and 15 September 2010 This conference has been recorded and is available as a series of podcasts This two-year research project examines the impact of the design, decoration and furnishing of nineteenth-century residential …

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McKinlay, Alan; Carter, Chris; Pezet, Eric; Clegg, Stewart, ‘Using Foucault to make strategy’, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 23, Number 8, 2010 , pp. 1012-1031(20) https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/09513571011092538/full/html Abstract Purpose The premise of the paper is that Foucault’s concept of governmentality has important but unacknowledged implications for understanding strategy. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the …

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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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