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

Text below posted on youtube . See also the European Graduate school site Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about inconsistencies in Foucault’s critique of the symbolic. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses the unity of the symbolic and biological, a new theory of power outside the model of language, the genealogy of relations of …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism and Hegelianism, around such issues as the meaning of history…

« Le rôle de la vérité dans la généalogie foucaldienne du sujet moderne ». Public lecture by Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris-Est Créteil/Università « La Sapienza » di Roma) Saturday, the 21st January 2012, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande) Hosted by the Séminaire Foucault, organised …

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Stuart Elden “How should we do the history of territory?” Additional details 14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Abstract …

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Roberto Nigro Maître de conférences invité à l’EHESS donnera cinq conférences sur les Démonstrations de pouvoir Le jeudi 9 juin 2011 15h00-17h00 105, bd. Raspail, Salle 11 “Violence, domination, résistance : trois concepts clés dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault” Le mardi 14 juin 2011 18h30-20h30 Salle 1, Centre Parisien d’Études Critiques, 37 bis rue du …

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Conférence de Giorgio AGAMBEN : Archéologie du commandement et de la volonté Mardi 5 avril 18h30 – Salle des Conférences, Lycée Henri IV, 23 rue Clovis, 75005 Paris Conférence organisée par le CIPh dans le cadre de la convention avec le Lycée Henri IV. Auteur d’une oeuvre déjà considérable, Giorgio Agamben a entrepris une vaste …

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See also this post for Hardt’s published work around this topic. Nick Levine, ‘Hardt waxes theoretical on revolution‘, Yale Daily News, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 First couple of paragraphs from report. See here for rest of article Marxist political and literary theorist Michael Hardt came to Yale Monday to spark revolution — not with petitions …

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Update: August 2025. Details of this have long since vanished from the web, but here is a video of Dreyfus discussing Moby Dick uploaded in 2018 Sept. 17 Potter lecture Hubert Dreyfus, “Luring Back the Gods: Polytheism from ‘The Odyssey’ to ‘Moby Dick’” will be the topic of the 49th annual Potter Memorial Lecture at …

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The first of 7 videos Giorgio Agamben conducting a seminar on the creation of the subject in the work of of Michel Foucault. Agamben examined the idea of the subject (through a discussion of the role of the author) by contrasting theories of subjectivity between Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. Agamben discussed the chiasmatic relationship …

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