Crampton, J. W. (2001). Maps as social constructions: power, communication and visualization. Progress in Human Geography, 25(2), 235–252. https://doi.org/10.1191/030913201678580494 Two developments in cartography mark an epistemic break with the assumption that maps are unproblematic communication devices. These are 1) investigations of maps as practices of power-knowledge; and 2) ‘geographic visualization’ (GVis) which uses the map’s …
Colloque: La gouvernementalité : histoire et usages d’un concept fuyant Du jeudi 11 au vendredi 12 mai 2023 Sur place et en ligne 425, rue De La Gauchetière Est Montréal (Québec) H2L 2M7 90e Congrès de l’Acfas Le 90e Congrès de l’Acfas, organisé en collaboration avec l’Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal et Polytechnique Montréal Parmi …
The Weakerthans, Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961). Frome the 2003 album Construction Site
Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth. Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming September 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s project. …
Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere. The Normal and the Phenomenological, Paris Institute, February 10 2023 In his introduction to Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological, Michel Foucault makes an observation that we nowadays seem increasingly at risk of forgetting: far from being irreconcilably opposed to one another, the two main theoretical styles of continental philosophy—i.e., phenomenology and …
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy: Existentialism to Post-Modernism, Freud Museum, London, UK From Heidegger and Sartre to Foucault and Lacan. An online course with Keith Barrett, taking place over two afternoons. 15 June, 1:30 pm – 16 June, 5:00 pm £36 – £45 In the period immediately following World War II, existentialism was the leading philosophical movement …
The Panopticon Effect, 99% invisible, 03.28.23 Podcast and transcript In the Netherlands, about an hour and a half south of Amsterdam, there’s a city called Breda. Like many Dutch towns, it has cozy narrow streets, canals and plenty of bicycles. But there’s one historic building – right in the middle of town that really stands …
Bstieler, Michaela and Gianluca Crepaldi. “Working-Through Wellness: Critical Perspectives on the Contemporary Wellness Dispositif.” Genealogy+Critique 9, no. 1 (2023): 1–21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.9543 Abstract In this paper, we examine the institutionalised demands and imperatives that govern the contemporary working subject. Our starting point is the thesis advanced by both Alain Ehrenberg and Eva Illouz that since …
Ivan Segré, Destitution: Lacan, Foucault et la cabale, Lundi matin, no. 376, 31 mars 2023 Sur la base de certains énoncés de Lacan et de Foucault, qu’il s’efforce d’élucider, Ivan Segré propose une sorte de généalogie de la notion de « critique ». Partant des observations de Foucault relatives à la critique biblique au XVIe …
Hodges BD, Martimianakis MA, McNaughton N, Whitehead C. Medical education… meet Michel Foucault. Medical Education. 2014 Jun;48(6):563-71. doi: 10.1111/medu.12411. PMID: 24807433. Abstract Context: There have been repeated calls for the greater use of conceptual frameworks and of theory in medical education. Although it is familiar to few medical educators, Michel Foucault’s work is a helpful theoretical …
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