Originally posted on The Dish:
In an interview discussing a new volume of essays he edited about the French philosopher, Daniel Zamora portrays Foucault, especially in his later years, as more friendly to and fascinated by neoliberals Hayek and Friedman than many of his votaries on the academic left want to believe. Zamora claims to have been…
Originally posted on Notes On Liberty:
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French writer on various but related topics of power, knowledge, discourse, history of thought, ethics, politics, and so on. His name to some summons negative associations of French intellectual fashion, incomprehensibility, and refinements of Marxist anti-liberty positions. However, his influence in various fields has…
Originally posted on Le Palais Du Rire:
Un precursore del blairismo e della Terza via? Un pensatore sedotto dal neoliberismo? L’ultima barriera della borghesia contro Marx? La collocazione politica di Michel Foucault da sempre è fonte di dibattito. Un libro appena uscito e curato dal sociologo belga Daniel Zamora, Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et…
Originally posted on Le Palais Du Rire:
A trent’anni esatti dalla scomparsa avvenuta per SIDA, l’autarchico acronimo francese, il 25 giugno del 1984, Michel Foucault è pienamente nel secolo, ovvero nell’opinione comune. Il suo magistero caleidoscopico ed erudito ha sedotto frotte di studiosi, in particolare quelli che hanno risciacquato i panni nella Senna e oggi…
Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here. I had been rounding up a post on this but never got around to it, and Stuart makes excellent and helpful points (with the modesty to suggest his views are revisable once the book referenced in the Zamora interview is published). Daniel Zamora’s original interview…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
My latest post at the New APPS group blog Continuing from my last post on ‘Style of Living versus Juridification in Foucault’, there seems to be me to be something to be gained by thinking about Kierkegaard’s ethics here, even if Kierkegaard’s Christianity and Foucault’s aesthetic self seem rather distinct. The emphasis…
Originally posted on evoneuro:
Some background: A few weeks ago on Twitter I floated around the idea of writing a semi-regular blog post on my experiences reading Foucault for the first time as a neuroscience grad student/MRI researcher. There was some interest, so here’s my first write-up on my experiences and reactions to reading Michel…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 21st February, 1973 Part One (of my summary and comments, the lecture was delivered as a unified entity) In the early nineteenth century, the penal system became a penitentiary system for the first time, was more unified, and was much more under the control of the state than before.…
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…
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