Originally posted on Philosophical Naturalism:
“An experiment with a panoptic system would suffice to find out; different things could be taught to different children in different cells; we could teach no matter what to no matter which child, and we would see the result. In this way we could raise children in completely different systems,…
Mitchell Dean, Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie, Stanford University Press blog, 19 Feb 2016 In order to understand any major thinker and their legacy, it is important to consider their context—a truism that is very hard to put into practice, especially when the thinker in question belongs both …
Planting Foucault in Juárez. A Translator’s Reflections on the Story of Two Teenage Murderers Separated by Almost Two Centuries by John Washington “He donned his holiday clothes, had his sister sing a canticle beginning ‘O happy day! holy joy!” and, his mind wholly deranged, his weapon, an ax, in hand, he executed his mother, his …
Michel Foucault: The rights and duties of international citizenship (2015) The front page of the Open Democracy Site, 14 November 2015 Also includes links to the following items: Michel Foucault “The refugee problem is a presage of the great migrations of the twenty first century”, 1979. Translated by Colin Gordon. Colin Gordon, The drowned and …
Foucault 4/14 Daniele Lorenzini | A Dispatch from Paris: “A Little History of Truth in General” I have followed with great interest, from Paris, the discussions which arose before, during, and after the first three meetings of the seminar “Foucault 13/13”, and I really look forward to “Foucault 4/14”, which is going to be exciting—Linda …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Most of the most recent work on this book project has been on the section of Chapter Two discussing the Nu-Pieds revolts. An analysis of these, and the repression that follows, takes up the first seven lectures of Théories et institutions pénales. It’s a fascinating story, and nowhere else does…
Editor: See Colin Gordon’s response from the comments section of this blog post below. Michel Foucault’s Iranian Folly Jeremy Stangroom on Michel Foucault’s political naiveté, TPM Online (The Philosopher’s magazine) Extract Everywhere outside Iran, Islam serves as a cover for a feudal or pseudo revolutionary oppression… The Left should not let itself be seduced by …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In the German interview with Daniel Defert I linked to earlier this week, it was revealed that the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality will eventually be published. This is my attempt at answering some of the common questions – some I’ve received by mail, twitter, etc. and some that have been asked…
Editor: Reblogged from Stuart Elden’s site Progressive Geographies Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which underpin the State? A: It is true …
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 …
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