Mitchell Dean, Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism. Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014, Journal of Political Power, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014, pages 433-442 Further info Link to full paper on academia.edu Abstract This lecture evaluates the claim made by one of …
Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here. I had been rounding up a post on this but never got around to it, and Stuart makes excellent and helpful points (with the modesty to suggest his views are revisable once the book referenced in the Zamora interview is published). Daniel Zamora’s original interview…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve been away, but several people have been sending me links to a recent string of articles on Foucault’s supposed sympathies to neoliberalism. The start of the debate – in English at least – was the translation of an interview with Daniel Zamora at Jacobin. The interview relates to a…
The recent interview with Daniel Zamora on neoliberalism is causing quite a stir in the English language world at least. Brian Doherty, Concerned Leftists Rediscover Michel Foucault Might Not Have Been As Anti-Market as They’d Like on the reason.com site Daniel W. Drezner, Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend, on the Washington Post …
Daniel Zamora (dir.), Aden<, Bruxelles, 2014 PDF flyer Lorsque Michel Foucault décède en 1984, c’est également le monde de l’après guerre, ses institutions et ses espoirs de transformation sociale, qui s’éteint avec lui. Les décennies qui suivront seront indéniablement celles du triomphe du néolibéralisme et des attaques contre les droits sociaux. Si Michel Foucault n’en a …
Update from organisers. Unfortunately this event is now full and there are no more places. Neoliberalism and Biopolitics Working Group | Foucault and Marx: A Disjunctive Synthesis? Lecture | December 9 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Speaker/Performer: Etienne Balibar, Anniversary Chair of Contemporary European Philosophy at Kingston University London and Visiting Professor at Columbia University …
Call for Papers: Soft Power Third Issue: June 30, 2015 Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics Soft Power is an inter-disciplinary academic journal published in 2014 by the Grupo Planeta, one of the leading publishers in the Spanish-speaking world. It is supported by the University of Salerno and the Universidad …
Chaput, C., Hanan, J.S. Economic Rhetoric as Taxis: Neoliberal governmentality and the dispositif of freakonomics (2014) Journal of Cultural Economy. Article in Press. Abstract This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning …
The cover image was produced by Astra Howard, an Action Researcher/Performer currently living in Sydney Australia. Spanning more than a decade, her work has sought to elicit and document marginalised, or overlooked, experiences and discourses of the city. The specific image I have chosen is part of a series entitled ‘Kings Cross the Whisper.’ This …
Andrew Zimmerman, Foucault in Berkeley and Magnitogorsk: Totalitarianism and the limits of liberal critique (2014) Contemporary European History, 23 (2), pp. 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777314000101 Abstract Returning to Stephen Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization almost two decades after its publication allows us to take stock, from a slight temporal distance, of the reception in our …
