Foucault News

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

A Conversation on Late Fascism Alberto Toscano and Evan Calder Williams , e-flux, March 15, 2024 This is an edited version of the live event that took place on December 12, 2023 at e-flux in Brooklyn. Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis is published by Verso. […] AT: I remembered …

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Gabriel Rockhill, The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback, Monthly Review, 1 June 2023 Like any major social and political movement, the events referred to as those of May 1968 have multiple different aspects and internal contradictions. They cannot be easily summed up in terms of a …

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Rencontres Michel Foucault 2022 Du 7 au 10 novembre 2022 Après tant d’éloges, tant de condamnations, tant de textes dont ceux de Michel Foucault (Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique – 1961 ou Les Anormaux – 1975), tant d’images, qu’elle soit furieuse, douce, prémonitoire, enfermée ou protégée, la folie nous oblige. Elle participe à …

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Convocatoria completa disponible AQUÍ Primera Circular En el 2021 se cumplieron cincuenta años de la publicación del Nietzsche, la genealogía, la historia. Entendida como metodología, la genealogía involucra una apuesta inactual y exigente. Va contrapelo del mandado que impone dejar de lado toda referencia al pasado. Trabaja sobre unas “historias ya escritas” y demanda cierta certeza …

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Roundtable Workshop: Foucault’s Historical Imaginary Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault’s thought in the contemporary humanities and social sciences, including in history, and the clearly historical nature of his most widely read works, Foucault’s historical method remains relatively under-explored. We invite you to join Alison Downham Moore (Western Sydney University), Stuart Elden (Warwick University) …

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A Joint Session with The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick: Miguel Beistegui, Claire Blencowe, Henrique Carvalho, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini, Goldie Osuri, Irene Dal Poz, Federico Testa, and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss The Punitive Society by Michel Foucault & A conversation with playwright Cori Thomas and Adnan …

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Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration. The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders, Sage, 2019 See also a roundtable on this book on 15 January 2020, University of Warwick The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual …

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Anthony Alessandrini, “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes”, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, March 23 2017 Part of a Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 272 pp., $27.00 US (pbk), ISBN 9780816699490. Full PDF Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault …

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The Colonial and Settler Studies Research Network and The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research present Biopolitics: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable How and in what ways is the body a site of intervention for power in colonial and postcolonial situations? How do race and gender affect modes of governmentality and representation? This roundtable considers these and …

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