Foucault News

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

Tracey Potts, Clutter and place (2020) The Routledge Handbook of Place, Edited By Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari, pp. 486-495. DOI: 10.4324/9780429453267-43 Abstract This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in …

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Raúl García, The Event of Psychopoetics. Imagination and the Rupture of Psychology, Routledge, 2021 The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and …

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Michel Foucault’s speech on notion of parresia published for Persian readers, Tehran Times, December 28, 2021 – Cheshmeh is the publisher of the book rendered into Persian by Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Seyyedi. The book launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of …

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Robert Mitchell, Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism, Fordham University Press, 2021 Open access Review in Foucault Studies Abstract Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of …

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Mona Lilja, Constructive Resistance. Repetitions, Emotions, and Time, Rowman & Littlefield. See review in Foucault Studies This book examines constructive resistance practices that range from street protests to the use of photographic images, and displays their role in local and global political processes. By building on a rich selection of interview material and other empirical …

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Museum Thresholds The Design and Media of Arrival Edited By Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley. Routledge 2020. Copyright year 2018. Editor: I came across this volume doing a search on Richard Rogers, one of the two architect behind the Georges Pompidou centre in Paris, (the other was Renzo Piano). Richard Rogers has just died. …

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Interview podcast with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, editors of Intolerable. Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980), UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS 2021, New Books Network, Dec 20, 2021 Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, …

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Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, The Performance of Authenticity, The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography Teófilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the autobiographies of New Orleans musicians (Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins) who throughout their texts …

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Frédéric Gros, Foucault, Flaubert, la tentation d’écrire. In Flaubert et le moment théorique (1960-1980), Sous la direction de Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Anne Herschberg Pierrot, CNRS éditions, 2021. Et si Flaubert, dont on fête en 2021 le bicentenaire, n’était né, en réalité, qu’il y a une cinquantaine d’années ? Entre 1960 et 1980, la France traverse une période d’intense …

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