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 …
Gordon Hull, Parrhesia (Part 1): Foucault’s Parting Shot at Derrida, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science Foucault’s last lecture courses at the Collège de France – recently published as The Government of Self and Others [GS] and The Courage of Truth [CT] – are interesting for a number of reasons. One is of course they …
Bea Moyes, The Necessity of Disorder in a Soft City: De Certeau vs Foucault, Part 1, The Society Pages, Sociology Lens, (blog), September 7 2014 Part two Extract “For better or worse, [the city] invites you to remake it, to consolidate it into a shape you can live in.” In his novel Soft City, written …
Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy – Part II.4: Foucault on archeology and genealogy, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 13 January 2015 Extract I am now back to working on my conceptual genealogy project; this post is the fifth installment of a series of posts on the project. Part I is here; Part II.1 …
Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Thomas Nail – Michel Foucault, Accelerationist, An und für sich blog, January 5, 2015 The Debate: So far the debate over Foucault’s relationship to neoliberalism is split between two positions. On one side there are those (Daniel Zamora, François Ewald, Michael Behrent, and others) who argue that Foucault’s “sympathy” for …
Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Johanna Oksala – Never Mind Foucault: What Are the Right Questions for Us? An und für sich blog, January 4, 2015 Daniel Zamora’s recent interview in Jacobin titled “Can We Criticize Foucault?” has sparked another discussion on Foucault’s alleged endorsement of neoliberalism. For those of us who did not know …
Originally posted on Notes On Liberty:
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French writer on various but related topics of power, knowledge, discourse, history of thought, ethics, politics, and so on. His name to some summons negative associations of French intellectual fashion, incomprehensibility, and refinements of Marxist anti-liberty positions. However, his influence in various fields has…
Daniel Zamora, Foucault’s Responsibility, Jacobin magazine, 15 December 2014 Editor’s note: This is a response to the article by Peter Frase posted yesterday on Foucault News Foucault was not asking the “right questions.” And the answers he came up with helped disorient the Left. The question of the welfare state’s role in a capitalist society …
