Foucault News

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

Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of such works as Communitas and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy. This is the first section of a talk – see other uploaded clips for the remainder. With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link Philippe Theophanidis sent the following information to Foucault News: This lecture by Roberto Esposito …

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Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and The Arts, Warwick University On the afternoon of 29 January 2013 we hosted a special public lecture by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The one-hour lecture was entitled ‘General Organology, Digital Studies and the Neurosciences’ and offered a succinct account of some of the major preoccupations of Stiegler’s groundbreaking …

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Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Foucault for Architects, Routledge, May 2013 Publisher’s page The author is also conducting an inaugural public lecture at 6 pm on the 24th of May 2013 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Faculty of Humanities to coincide with the publication of the book. Pdf flyer for event Description From the mid-1960s onwards Michel …

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Join Tate Liverpool and world-renowned literary theorist Leo Bersani for the second in a year-long series of FREE Keywords lectures in Liverpool.  Thursday 9 May 2013, 19.00 – 20.00. LEAF on Water Street, 25 Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 0RG. Keywords is a dynamic exhibition and lecture programme that looks at how changes in the meaning of words …

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A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot Date: 21 February 2013, 6:00pm to 21 February 2013, 9:00pm Location: Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London Free Lecture by Étienne Balibar (CRMEP). A well-known essay published by Foucault in 1966 on the work of Maurice Blanchot, La pensée du dehors, was translated …

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Paul Rabinow, How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault, The Pluralist, Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2012, pp. 25-37 https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.7.3.0025 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The problem reduced to its lowest terms is whether inquiry can develop in its own ongoing course the logical standards and …

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Text on youtube Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about Jacques Derrida’s critique of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben in The Beast and The Sovereign. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses Heidegger’s critique of metaphysics, Foucault’s critique of sovereignty, the distinction between zoe and bios, the relationship between bestiality and human life, political life, the …

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From Didier Eribon’s personal blog Rencontre autour des livres récents de Didier Eribon La librairie Les Mots à la bouche Le 14 décembre, à 19h, 6 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, Paris 4e La librairie Les Mots à la bouche, organise une rencontre autour des mes livres récents, le vendredi 14 décembre à 19h. Ce …

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