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

Orazio Irrera, « Michel Foucault et les critiques de l’idéologie. Dialogue avec Pierre Macherey », Methodos [En ligne], 16 | 2016; https://doi.org/10.4000/methodos.4667 Texte intégral Orazio Irrera – On a l’habitude un peu hâtive de dire que lorsque Foucault critique l’idéologie, il s’adresse surtout à la conception althussérienne de l’idéologie. Mais en suivant votre argumentation, il …

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EDGES BLOG: CSC Interview with Daniel Zamora. Cultural Studies blog, George Mason University, 12 March 2016 The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Dave Zeglen interviewed Daniel Zamora, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. See below for the transcript. Let us begin with your …

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Rohan Deb Roy and David Arnold, Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold, Asian Medicine 6 (2010–11) 149–163 DOI:10.1163/157342110X606914 Full text on academia.edu Abstract David Arnold who retired this year as the Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial …

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Quel est l’héritage de Michel Foucault? Sophie Joubert, Avec Frédéric Gros, philosophe, professeur à Sciences Po, coordinateur de la Pléiade Michel Foucault, Radio France Information, Diffusion : vendredi 8 janvier 2016 Podcast Impossible de parler de la folie, de la prison ou de l’histoire de la sexualité sans citer le nom de Michel Foucault. Il …

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Foucault : “Mes livres sont des espèces de petits pétards…“ En juin 1975, Roger-Pol Droit enregistrait de longs entretiens avec le philosophe Michel Foucault en vue d’un livre qui fut abandonné. Inédit. PROPOS RECUEILLIS PAR ROGER-POL DROIT Publié le 06/12/2015 | Le Point This article is for purchase. Dans cet extrait inédit, il parle de …

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Michael Scott Christofferson, May 1968’s Black Sheep, Interview with Daniel Zamora, Jacobin, 26 December 2015 André Glucksmann died last month. Why did he and so many other French intellectuals turn to the right after May 1968? Extract DZ: You underline in your book the strange episode of Michel Foucault’s review of Glucksmann’s The Master Thinkers. …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Governmentality studies observed Interview with Colin Gordon by Aldo Avellaneda and Guillermo Vega September 2015 Full PDF of article Interviewers’ introduction Colin Gordon is considered one of the key references of what, in a rather generic although recognizable way, has come to be called “governmentality studies”. He has been involved since …

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Michel Foucault, Against Himself: Arlette Farge Remembers Foucault on the Streets of Paris, Literary Hub, 16 Nov 2015 The following conversation with French historian Arlette Farge is excerpted from Michel Foucault, Against Himself, a collection of interviews and essays exploring the contradictions and conflicts at the heart of Michel Foucault’s life and work. You met Foucault after …

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