Foucault News

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

Kelly Bulkeley, Dark Times and the Powers of Dreaming, Huffpost, 24 August 2017 I’ve been thinking a lot recently about a new book, Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought, by Sharon Sliwinski, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Sliwinski approaches dreaming as a powerful resource for political theory and action, …

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Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting personal: how biosecurity gets under our skin., Green European Journal Volume 15, April 2017 Review of Frédéric Gros’s book Le Principe Sécurité (The Security Principle, 2012). The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will …

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The Seventh Function of Language A Novel Laurent Binet; Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by …

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David Beer, Metric Power, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these …

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Reinvenções de Foucault Ana Kiffer.(org.) Antonio Pele.(org.) Francisco de Guimaraens.(org.) Mauricio Rocha.(org.) Rafael Becker.(org.) Lamparina, 2017 ISBN 978 85 8316 050 2Cód. barras 9788583160502 Em 1973, Michel Foucault apresenta no Collège de France o Curso “A sociedade punitiva”, parte do conjunto de análises que servirão de base ao livro Vigiar e Punir, de 1975. As …

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An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz, Theory Culture and Society, 22 May 2017 The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz Elizabeth Grosz & Vikki Bell March 2017 VB: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2017). The book seems to simultaneously explore …

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Biancamaria Fontana, Would you mind imprisoning my wife? Times Literary Supplement, May 17, 2017 Review of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families. Infamous letters from the Bastille archives. Edited by Nancy Luxon. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton 344pp. University of Minnesota Press. $35. Imagine living in a country where your domestic conflicts could be solved …

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