Foucault News

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

Foucault, literature, and feminist theories of technology Dr Lena Wanggren (English Literature, University of Edinburgh) Science, Technology and Innovation seminar series Date and Time 2nd Feb 2015 15:30 – 17:00 Location Room 1.06, Old Surgeons’ Hall, High School Yards School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh. Abstract Building on French philosopher Michel Foucault’s …

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A Weekend of Schizo-Culture Further info  Press Release Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book The closing Schizo-Culture Weekend will activate many of the subjects touched on by SPACE’s current exhibition: Schizo-Culture: Cracks In The Street. 12–14 Dec 2014 SPACE, 129–131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH Free entry Discussions ranging across themes such as anti-psychiatry, philosophy and …

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Update from organisers. Unfortunately this event is now full and there are no more places. Neoliberalism and Biopolitics Working Group | Foucault and Marx: A Disjunctive Synthesis? Lecture | December 9 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Speaker/Performer: Etienne Balibar, Anniversary Chair of Contemporary European Philosophy at Kingston University London and Visiting Professor at Columbia University …

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Le séminaire Actualités Foucault reprendra ses activités le jeudi 4 décembre 2014, de 17h à 19h. La première séance aura lieu à l’Ecole doctorale de Sciences Po (199 bd Saint Germain, troisième étage, métro : Saint Germain de Près – ligne 4 ; Rue du bac – ligne 12). La séance sera consacré à la présentation du livre de Jacques Bidet : Foucault …

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Originally posted on Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Je participerai, le samedi 20 septembre 2014, à une rencontre sur le thème “Le savoir/Le pouvoir” avec Didier Eribon et Edouard Louis dans le cadre des Rendez-vous philosophiques de la Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe Samedi 20/09/2014, Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, salle des Fresques, 37 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, 15h-17h.  

Mark Kelly DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 17 September, 3.30pm-5.00pm PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27  [How to get to Bankstown Campus] http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown All welcome ABSTRACT: In this paper, I critically assess Gilles Deleuze’s ‘societies of control’ thesis, in relation to both the work of Michel Foucault which inspired it, and the work …

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Postponed until later this year Cartography of Exhaustion Venue: Morven Brown 310 (map ref C20)University of NSW, Sydney Who: Peter Pál Pelbart School of Humanities and Languages and the Biopolitical Research Network Drawing on Nietzsche’s problematic of nihilism and the question of exhaustion that Deleuze finds in Beckett, this talk will attempt to trace some …

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Charlotte Epstein, Experiences of bodily privacy are changing in the contemporary surveillance society Wednesday 6 August, 3.30pm – 5.00pm 2014 Bankstown Campus, Room 3.G.27 University of Western Sydney All welcome More info Abstract In this paper I consider how our experiences of bodily privacy are changing in the contemporary surveillance society. To this end I …

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Gastvortrag am IZW: “Wittgenstein and Foucault on ‘scientific’ and ‘philosophical’ truth”, Dr. Luca Paltrinieri (Associate Researcher am Chambre de Commerce et d’industrie de Paris, Ile-de-France/CCI-Paris-IDF) Thursday 16 July 2014, 6pm Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung (IZW) / Berlin Center for Knowledge Research Hauptgebäude TU Berlin, Room H 0111 (Hörsaal im Erdgeschoss), Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin …

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