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 …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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…
Originally posted on The Funambulist:
I am in complete disagreement with American libertarian politicians like Ron Paul and his son, Senator of Kentucky Rand Paul as far as interior policies are concerned. However, one needs to acknowledge the consistency of their political system, a sort of anarchist free-market in which supposedly social justice comes from…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the following: ‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21…
ON FOUCAULT’S OBSCURITY: informational prosaicity vs transformational poeticity Posted on July 19, 2013 by terenceblake From the Agent Swarm blog Possible sources of the appearance of obscurity: 1) Vocabulary: French being Latin based looks more complicated than it is when viewed by an English speaker. I remember my surprise when I first arrived in France …
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