Foucault News

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

Genealogía, crítica y ensayo. Aportes para la historia del presente Compiladoras: Paula Lucía Aguilar, Ana Grondona y Victoria Haidar. Textos de : Mitchell Dean, David Garland, William Walters, Victoria Haidar, Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, Gary Wilder, Diego Giller, María Pia López, Timothy Mitchell, Ana Grondona Acompañan: Ana Blanco (IIGG-FSOC-UBA), Luciano Nosetto (IIGG-FSOC-UBA) Natalia Romé …

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Perry Zurn and I are pleased to announce that Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press at the end of this month. Perry and I are co-editors of the volume and Perry and Erik Beranek are the principal translators. Intolerable UM …

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Aldo Avellaneda y Guillermo Vega, (eds.) Conductas que importan. Variantes de análisis de los Estudios en Gubernamentalidad. EUDENE 2018. Presentation: Wednesday, 27, 18:30. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. Resumen Los así llamados Governmentality Studies (Estudios en Gubernamentalidad) vieron la luz en el año 1991, si convenimos en otorgar crédito …

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Josephine Berry, Art and (Bare) Life, A Biopolitical Inquiry. Sternberg Press, 2018 December 2018, English 14 x 22.5 cm, 328 pages, 45 color ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-393-6 €25.00 Book launch at Imperial College London Art and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Inquiry analyzes modern and contemporary art’s drive to blur with life, and how this is …

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The Colonial and Settler Studies Research Network and The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research present Biopolitics: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable How and in what ways is the body a site of intervention for power in colonial and postcolonial situations? How do race and gender affect modes of governmentality and representation? This roundtable considers these and …

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INVITATION Michel Foucault : le dire-vrai entre éthique et politique Rencontre autour de deux nouveautés foucaldiennes publiées aux Éditions Vrin : Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité / La parrêsia Daniele Lorenzini, Éthique et politique de soi en compagnie de Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini Judith Revel 20 février – 14h30 Librairie philosophique J. Vrin …

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Presentación LOS USOS DE FOUCAULT EN LA ARGENTINA recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días Mariana Canavese Participan: Edgardo Castro, Ivana Costa, Horacio Tarcus y Hugo Vezzetti Jueves 5 de noviembre, 19 hs Librería Hernández Av. Corrientes 1436, C.A.B.A. Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en …

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The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought​ and The Hispanic Institute for Latin American & Iberian Cultures are proud to invite you to the release of the last volume of Michel Foucault’s series of seminars at the Collège de France: Foucault and May 68: Penal Theories and Institutions (Collège de France Lectures, 1971-1972) (Hautes Études, …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds.) The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism, Fordham University Press, July 2014 ISBN: 9780823255979 Further info See below description for details of book launch at University of NSW Description Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought …

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