Foucault News

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

CFP: MANCEPT Workshop – Causal Histories: The Role of Genealogical Inquiries in Moral, Social and Political Philosophy Workshop format: in-person (we will consider a small number of online presentations for speakers from overseas) Abstract deadline: June 5th, 2023 Workshop dates: 12-13 September 2023 Invited speakers: Matthieu Queloz (University of Basel), Alexander Prescott-Couch (University of Oxford), Benjamin De Mesel …

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Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre: Macron et la guerre civile en France, Diakritik, 1 mai 2023 On dit beaucoup de mal de Macron à propos du passage en force de la réforme des retraites. On le dit égotiste, arrogant et tout sauf habile. On oublie qu’il est l’homme de la situation, …

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María Laura Martínez Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking, Springer, 2021 About this book This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking’s work. It presents Hacking’s oeuvre as a network made up of four interconnected key nodes: styles of scientific thinking & doing, …

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Martina Tazzioli, Border abolitionism. Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue, Manchester University Press, 2023. Forthcoming July Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical …

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In memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023) Published: May 10, 2023 Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto See also the Daily Nous site It is with deep sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces the passing of one of its most eminent members, Professor Emeritus Ian M. Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA. The influential scholar, teacher, and prolific …

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M. Cecilia Oliveira, Leandro Siqueira, Digitalization between environmental activism and counter-activism: The case of satellite data on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Earth System Governance, Volume 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100135. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000040) Open access Abstract: This paper analyzes the uses of digital satellite data on deforestation in the Amazon region, drawing on poststructuralist studies of scientific knowledge …

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Gordana Fontana-Giusti: Foucault and the language of architects, Listen Notes, April 20, 2023. Podcast. In Season 2, Episode 28 of A is for Architecture, Gordana Fontana Giusti discusses her 2013 book, Foucault for Architects, published by Routledge, as part of the Thinkers for Architects series. Gordana is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Kent School of Architecture …

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Handbook on Governmentality. Research Handbooks in Political Thought series Edited by William Walters and Martina Tazzioli. Edward Elgar Publishing 2023 The Handbook on Governmentality discusses the development of an interdisciplinary field of research, focusing on Michel Foucault’s post-foundationalist concept of governmentality and the ways it has been used to write genealogies of modern states, the …

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Morales-Ladrón, M. On docile bodies: silence, control and surveillance as self-imposed disciplines in Anna Burns’ Milkman (2023) Irish Studies Review DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2198081 Abstract Anna Burns, the first Northern-Irish woman to have been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Milkman in 2018 has been celebrated since then as a lucid and necessary voice in the …

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Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault – Archive ouverte HAL Marie-Laure Massot, “Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault“. Master. Atelier autour des archives, Centre documentaire du CAPHES, France. 2023. ⟨hal-04057849⟩ Avec près de 20 000 feuillets numérisés…