Conscripted Subjects: Disciplined Society, Critique, and the Humanities. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA February 23-25, 2011 Submission deadline: October 15, 2010. In light of our current moment marked by economic collapse, heightened political paranoia, racial profiling, and ubiquitous surveillance, this conference wishes to highlight the connection between states of crisis and …
Call for Papers: Cinema and the State-Tortured Body Call for Abstracts Due Date: 2010-10-01 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore the Sovereign’s power and control over the body through the cinema’s arguable co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate aims and …
Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 9 including a “state of the disciplines“ review on Foucault and postcolonial studies. Included * 5 original articles about money, heterotopias, alimentary identities, animal ethics and the emotional content of governmentality processes * a review essay of Ladelle McWorter’s Racisism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America …
Introduction to Post-structuralism – Essay Collection Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-10-01 This is a call for papers for an essay collection to be entitled “Introduction to Post-structuralism.” The essay collection will consist of pedagogical, explanatory descriptions of post-structuralism to be used as references or classroom textbooks. The goal of this collection is to provide clear(er) …
Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture , Volume 16 Issue 5 2010 Special issue: Foucault 25 years on Contents For cutting: an introduction to Foucault, 25 years on Ian Goodwin-Smith Resisting Foucault: the necessity of appropriation Ian Goodwin-Smith Post-structuralism’s colonial roots: Michel Foucault Pal Ahluwalia The huntsman’s funeral: targeting the …
‘The History Of Sexuality Volume One By Michel Foucault: An Opera’, 2010, Premiere Gregg Bordowitz (USA) / Paul Chan (J/USA) 01./ 02.10.10 Fri 1 Oct / Sat 2 Oct., 8.30 pm in TQW / Halle G Tickets: € 18,- (Reductions and Online-Ticketing on http://www.tqw.at) Gregg Bordowitz talks about his opera version of The History of …
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 …
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