Foucault News

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

ESRC Seminar Series on Contemporary Biopolitical Security Fourth workshop: Problematising Danger Co-sponsored by the Biopolitics of Security Network, the Emerging Securities Research Unit @ Keele University and the Centre for International Relations, War Studies Department, King’s College London 21-22 February 2011 The River Room, King’s College London, Strand Campus Keynote speaker: Professor Marieke de Goede …

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From the Materiali Foucaultiani site. Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Foucault The online journal mf/materiali foucaultiani dedicates a special issue to the theme of space and its possible declinations in the fields of philosophy, politics and geography-urbanism, starting from the reflections brought forward by Michel Foucault. In a number of brief texts …

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Iara Vigo de Lima, Foucault’s Archaeology of Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century, having strongly influenced a large number of disciplines. He has played a fundamental role in the construction of new ways of thinking and radical changes in the …

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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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