Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
1) INTRODUCTION I am providing a translation of the incipit as reproduced at the end of a pre-publication review of Michel Foucault’s forthcoming book PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. The review was published online by Philosophy Magazine and discusses the ideas expressed therein chiefly in structuralist-demarcationist terms, given that the book focuses on…
Originally posted on Philosophical Naturalism:
“An experiment with a panoptic system would suffice to find out; different things could be taught to different children in different cells; we could teach no matter what to no matter which child, and we would see the result. In this way we could raise children in completely different systems,…
Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former…
Robin Jeffrey “In every generation a slayer is born. One girl in all the world, the Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer” (Buffy). For more than seven seasons, fans of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer tuned in weekly and …
Originally posted on Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Dans le Nouvel Observateur du 12 décembre 2013, Eric Aeschimann publie un article intitulé « Foucault est partout » censé décrire l’influence de Foucault dans la pensée contemporaine. C’est un article plein d’erreurs, d’approximations. Dans ce texte, le critique me range avec François Ewald dans la catégorie des…
Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Ernst Cassirer It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits – finding it required some (though…
Originally posted on Philosophy for change:
This is the first instalment in a three-part series. Part 2. I tweet, therefore I become Part 3. The call of the crowd ——————————————- You start the day bleary-eyed and anxious. You stayed up late last night working on a post for your blog, gathering facts and memes from…
Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
‘Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‘ (Ashgate, 2013) edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention.…
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
For two inter-linked, consecutive workshops under the theme of Subjects and Practices of Resistance to be held 9-11 September 2013 at University of Sussex. The first workshop (9-10 Sept) is on Discipline(s), Dissent and Dispossession and the second on Counter-Conduct in Global Politics (10-11 Sept). The workshop convenors…
Originally posted on BINARYTHIS:
A comic I made for a second year gender studies course I tutored for in 2012, to help students understand some of the themes from Foucault’s The History of Sexuality Vol.1: All page references from Foucault, M. (1976 [2008; trans 1978]), The History of Sexuality: Volume 1., R. Hurley, [trans], Victoria: Penguin Group Stay tuned…
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