Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Thomas Zummer. Foucault, the apparatus and the sublime. 2014 Published on 12 Feb 2015 http://www.egs.edu/ Thomas Zummer, artist and independent scholar, giving a talk on the apparatus in Foucault and Agamben, the phantasma and the sublime. In the final section of the clip, Leslie Thornton’s film “A philosopher’s walk on the sublime” is shown. Theorists …

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The Groningen Lectures on Modes of Reasoning – The Courage of Truth -Part I Opening Lecture by Prof. Michael Dillon, 25 Sept. 2013 The Groningen Lectures on Modes of Reasoning are a space for world leading intellectuals to reflect on historical and contemporary modes of reasoning order and power. Speakers are invited to address the …

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Elizabeth Povinelli – The Four Figures of the Anthropocene Center for 21st Century Studies Published on Apr 23, 2014 As is known, although his histories of sexuality would consume much of his final life, Michel Foucault was not interested in sexuality in and of itself but only in relation to how it entangled itself in …

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7 PROPOS SUR LE 7E ANGE THÉÂTRE — MUSIQUE Du 18 juin 2014 au 23 juin 2014 du lundi au samedi [19h30], le dimanche [17h] DUREE 1h PDF Texte Michel Foucault Preface de la grammaire logique de jean-pierre brisset Mise en scène Bruno Boulzaguet Composition Jean-Christophe Feldhandler Théâtre de L’échangeur, Bagnolet 59, Avenue du General …

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Un cycle de conférences permettra de revenir sur le travail intellectuel de Foucault comme auteur, lecteur, archiviste. “Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert”, avec la participation de Philippe Sabot. Le 12 mars 2014 à 17h (Salle de travail libre – Bibliothèque centrale de Lille 3) Daniel Defert, philosophe et sociologue, président-fondateur de AIDES (1984-1991), …

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Thomas Lemke, Biopolitics and Beyond: Vibrant Matter and the Political Economy of Life Published on Jul 1, 2013 CELAB presents a public lecture by Professor Thomas Lemke, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main in Germany. With opening remarks by Professor Judit Sandor, Director of CELAB. With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

Cycle Foucault: psychiatrie et psychanalyse (I). Conférence exceptionnelle d’Elisabeth Roudinesco (14 mars 2014) « Foucault à l’épreuve de l’historiographie de la psychanalyse » Further info Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo EA3562) Date et horaires: 14 mars 2014, 16h-18h Lieu: salle Lalande, UFR de philosophie – 17, rue de la Sorbonne, …

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Colin Koopman, From Biopower to Infopower?: A Genealogy of One Aspect of Contemporary Politics Text on youtube Colin Koopman, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, spoke at Oregon State University on December 3rd, 2013. A wide number of contemporary political assemblages from mass surveillance to finance capitalism to big data suggest …

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