Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Monstruosités critiques et surdités politiques. Réponse à un article publié dans Clarin à propos de La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault (Une version de cet article en espagnol est également publié sur ce site. A Spanish version of this piece is also available on this website) En 1971, Michel Foucault publie un …
Epilogue 2/13: The Stakes of the Balibar-Ewald Debate By Bernard E. Harcourt [This article draws on a longer essay titled “Reading Penal Theories and Institutions”] “Women, prisoners, conscripts, asylum patients, homosexuals have now begun a specific struggle of resistance against the particular forms of power, of constraint, of control that are exercised over them.” Michel …
David Banks, The Conservative Hacker – Cyborgology, August 26, 2015 The hacker label is, as Foucault might say, a “dubious unity.” The single phrase can barely contain its constituent multitude. Even if every single person that self-identified as a hacker had a stable definition, the media would warp, expand, and misunderstand the definition to include …
Derek Ide The Universal and the Particular: Chomsky, Foucault, and Post-New Left Political Discourse, The Hampton Institute, December 20th, 2014 Postmodern theory was a relatively recent intellectual phenomenon in 1971 when Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault sat down to discuss a wide range of topics, including the nature of justice, power, and intellectual inquiry. At …
Julian Vigo, Biopower and Security, Counterpunch, May 05, 2015 Full text online In The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge (L’histoire de la sexualité, La volonté de savoir), Michel Foucault defines biopower as the practices engaged by the modern state to effect an “an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations …
Stuart Elden, Peasant Revolts, Germanic Law and the Medieval Inquiry, Review of Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972, by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt, Paris: EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, 2015. Berfrois, June 2, 2015 Foucault remains full of surprises. This course, Théories et institutions pénales (“Penal Theories and Institutions”), was the second he …
Above picture can be found here And on another site..(fastcodesign.com) Note to Designers: Forget Wearables, Tackle Senseables Ravi Sawney, CEO of RKS, calls on designers to think about the next stage of personal technology. Let’s face it: the concept behind wearables—collecting data on oneself—is something people have sought for generations. French philosopher Michel Foucault, for …
The Islamic State’s Atrocities—and Ours John Feffer and Foreign Policy In Focus on March 5, 2015 This article is a joint publication of TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus. The description of the death of Robert-Francois Damiens, the man who attempted to kill Louis XV, is not for the faint-hearted. On March 2, 1757, in …
Gordon Hull, Parrhesia (Part 3): On Heidegger, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 30 March 2015 Unlike Derrida, with whom he had frequent, highly public polemics, Foucault says relatively little about Heidegger. Much of that is incidental: in a 1983 interview, for example, while talking about the postwar influence of Sartre, he notes parenthetically that …
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer Foucault). An interview he gave in relation to the book was translated into English for the Leftist journal Jacobin and …
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