Below John Protevi on the New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog For other comments on the subject of gun control in the USA also referring to Foucault, see also post by Firmin DeBrabander on The New York Times opinion pages. A Foucaultian analysis of framing gun violence as a public health issue Doug Henwood, …
From Didier Eribon’s blog Dans la troisième partie de « Réflexions sur la question gay » (1ère éd. Fayard, 1999 ; nouvelle éd. à paraître le 28 novembre 2012), consacrée à Michel Foucault, je m’interroge sur les remaniements de sa pensée entre l’ « Histoire de la folie » en 1961 et La « Volonté de savoir » en 1976 : comment et pourquoi …
Originally posted on The Funambulist:
The Power of Architecture – photomontage by the author (2012) Recently, I was lucky enough to be asked to write an article for the seventh issue of the Chilean journal SPAM and I decided to use this opportunity to articulate the clumsy addition of ideas that I started to touch…
Via Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies The Funambulist blog has been running a series of posts on Foucault Episode 1: Michel Foucault’s Architectural Underestimation Episode 2: Do not Become Enamored of Power Episode 3: “Mon Corps, Topie Impitoyable” Episode 4: The cartography of power Episode 5: The political technology of the body Episode 6: Architecture and Discipline: the hospital Episode …
Originally posted on Drunks&Lampposts:
A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz If you are interested in this data set you might like my latest post where I use it to make book recommendations. This one came about because I was searching for a data set on horror…
Peter Johnson has just launched a new site on Foucault’s notion of Heterotopia titled Heterotopian Studies. Update August 2025. This site is now only available on the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20191224045207/http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/ The site includes definitions, resources, discussions and a blog. The author notes: This web site is devoted to Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia. Foucault outlines …
Simon Thorpe, In Defence of Foucault: The Incessancy of Resistance, Critical Legal Thinking Blog, 7 Feb 2012 Extract In a recent article, ‘Foucault and the Revolutionary Self-Castration of the Left’, Jérôme E. Roos argued that: “Because it connects power with knowledge through discourse, and because it posits that knowledge and power are continually reproduced through …
Eileen Joy has posted a seminar syllabus and a link to a book chapter in progress on the In the Middle blog. I want to share with everyone here two recent fruits of these projects — a book chapter-in-progress and a seminar syllabus recently proposed, with Anna Klosowska, to the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance …
Mark LeVine, ‘The shaping of a New World Order’, Aljazeera website, 6 February, 2011 Tagline: If the revolutions of 2011 succeed, they will force the creation of a very different regional and world system. Many commentators are comparing Egypt to Iran of 32 years ago, mostly to warn of the risks of the country descending …
Hayden White, the eminent historian who was amongst the first serious commentators in English on Foucault remarks on his blog: A lot of people still seem to be disturbed by the idea that the language one uses to represent one’s thought or a world external to one’ self might have some effect on the content …
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