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 …
Scott McLemee, The Afterlife of the Mind. Essay on Michel Foucault’s posthumous publications Inside Higher Ed, August 12, 2015 Franz Kafka left explicit directions concerning the journals, letters and manuscripts that would be found following his death: they were to be burned — all of them — unread. Whether he expected Max Brod, the executor …
Originally posted on Academic Irregularities:
This post has been inspired by an apparent declaration of hostilities towards professors in a number of universities. The weapon of choice has been performance management, and some aspects of audit culture have been liberated from their usual role of absorbing academics’ time to becoming instruments of punishment. In universities…
Patrick West Foucault: from libertine to neoliberal , Spiked, 3 July 2015 Was the French philosopher really a Reaganite in poststructural clothing? Was Foucault a neoliberal?’ So asked an accusatory headline the other day in Le Nouvel Observateur, France’s centre-left news weekly. It’s a grave allegation. ‘Saint Foucault’, as the article sarcastically calls him, was …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This has been the period between submitting the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript and waiting for reader reports. I’ve largely been doing other things – talks on terrain and urban territory; editing a Lefebvre translation and writing its introduction; writing a response to a review forum on The Birth of Territory;…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Serialising a paper I wrote a while back that has ideas on Foucault I am still working on, but which is going to be absorbed into different parts of that work, so I’d like to put it here as a way of setting up some part of what I think is…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I’ve said, was almost complete. It is now with the press for review. In the last couple of weeks, while in New York, I’ve chased down a few final references; read the very valuable Régards critiques volumes on the History of Sexuality volumes…
Above picture can be found here And on another site..(fastcodesign.com) Note to Designers: Forget Wearables, Tackle Senseables Ravi Sawney, CEO of RKS, calls on designers to think about the next stage of personal technology. Let’s face it: the concept behind wearables—collecting data on oneself—is something people have sought for generations. French philosopher Michel Foucault, for …
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