The Social Theory Applied blog started out as a theory and educational research blog but as Mark Murphy, who runs the blog, explains it has recently broadened its focus Please note that the remit of the site is to become broader than its original focus on educational research – now to cover the field of social …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works of theory, see my post here). Foucault scholarship has advanced…
Philippe Theophanidis, Michel Foucault and “the problem of war”, 1981 From Philippe Theophanidis’ blog Aphelis Therefore, if you like, I never stop getting into the issue of law and rights without taking it as a particular object. And if God grant me life, after madness, illness, crime, sexuality, the last thing I would like to …
Paolo B. Vernaglione, Foucault in rete, Alfabeta2, 2 gennaio 2014 Per una urgente archeologia dei saperi dell’ultima modernità, Michel Foucault “sul web” potrebbe funzionare come dispositivo di sottrazione al potere narcisistico e commerciale della rete e come luogo di acquisizione di sapere in rapporto immediato con la realizzazione quotidiana della soggettività. Se si pensa alla …
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I’ve created a page on this blog under Future Projects for the Foucault’s Last Decade book. This has the proposal, links to the updates I’ve posted here about the book’s progress, and links to a couple of audio recordings of papers. I’ll try to keep this updated as the writing develops.
Originally posted on Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Dans le Nouvel Observateur du 12 décembre 2013, Eric Aeschimann publie un article intitulé « Foucault est partout » censé décrire l’influence de Foucault dans la pensée contemporaine. C’est un article plein d’erreurs, d’approximations. Dans ce texte, le critique me range avec François Ewald dans la catégorie des…
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I received Foucault’s La société punitive last week, and it was the only academic book I took with me on my Christmas trip to Ghana. As with these lecture courses generally I know I will read them several times, so I’m half-way through a first fairly quick read. I use…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes suggest that this course should be seen as developing the…
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Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there was some material from previous courses that was best discussed…
Passeport pour un autre monde… Avec nos voyages en Afrique de l’Ouest, nous étions (trop) souvent confrontés à la négation de la liberté de circulation de nos partenaires, à la bêtise des corridors de sécurité, à la cécité des frontières. On s’était alors dit qu’on pourrait créer un pays dont nous serions tous citoyens, un …
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