Ori Rotlevy, Askesis, Critique, and Tradition: Foucault and Benjamin. Lecture on Soundcloud, October 2019 Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of California, Berkeley A central concept in Foucault’s later work is Askesis: an exercise of oneself, related to self-mastery and self-transformation. The concept of “ascetic schooling” in the foreword to Benjamin’s Origin of the …
Editor: I usually pass over this kind of material, but Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto has become an influential celebrity in the last few years with a large following. I am posting this in order to draw attention to the increasing volume and popularity of certain …
Clare O’Farrell, Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016) Date: Tuesday, 30th August 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm Location: A Block, Level 3, Conference Room 330 QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Entry is free but please register with Eventbrite by Monday, 29th August 5:00pm PDF Flyer This paper was originally delivered …
Anders Fogh Jensen, Foucault – Systems of Thought – Systems of Management and Governance (2013) Foucault – Systems of Thought: Systems of Management and Governance. Danish philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen guides us through some of the primary issues in the philosophy of Michel Foucault (1926-84). Anders demonstrates that, to Foucault, the history of the systems …
Date: May 30, 2014 Location: Stanford University Humanities Center Talk Title: Paul Rabinow “Contemporary Inquiry: Ecologies of Assemblages” Abstract: How should one conduct inquiry—today—into problems of broad scope and historical depth? How should one give form to participant-observation into problem spaces in which the specific site must be understood to be connected with multiple other …
Dr. Thomas Lemke: “Biopolitics: Current Issues and Future Challenges” Keynotes from the Biopolitics, Society, and Performance conference. October 2012, Trinity College Dublin. Also of interest, another keynote lecture from the same conference Rosi Bradotti: “What is ‘Human’ about the Humanities today?” With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link
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