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…
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 …
Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 April 2015 Editor’s note: My excuse for posting this excellent analysis of the parlous state of the contemporary university, which readers of this blog who are employed by universities will no doubt recognise only too well, is that Eagleton does in …
Originally posted on sanshistory:
“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the strategic programming of individuals’ activity” (Foucault, M. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège…
Jim Russell, The Existential Crisis of the American University, Pacific Standard, Mar 11, 2015 My favorite philosopher (Michel Foucault) wasn’t a philosopher so much as he was an innovative historian. Instead of casting his gaze at some well-defined era, Foucault studied the breaks between eras. Why did the model of the way the world works …
Michael Bibby, Selections from Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Security, Territory, Population’ at the College de France (1977-78) “Michel Foucault’s art consisted in using history to cut diagonally through contemporary reality. He could speak of Nietzsche or Aristotle, of expert psychiatric opinion or the Christian pastoral, but those who attended his lectures always took from what he …
