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 …
Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds.) The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism, Fordham University Press, July 2014 ISBN: 9780823255979 Further info See below description for details of book launch at University of NSW Description Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought …
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2014 Assuming Gender would like to invite submissions to our forthcoming special issue: ‘Neoliberal Gender, Neoliberal Sex’. Neoliberalism has recently come to define a particular object of critical enquiry, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …
Mark Kelly DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 17 September, 3.30pm-5.00pm PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown All welcome ABSTRACT: In this paper, I critically assess Gilles Deleuze’s ‘societies of control’ thesis, in relation to both the work of Michel Foucault which inspired it, and the work …
