Foucault News

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

Thomas Zummer. Foucault, the apparatus and the sublime. 2014 Published on 12 Feb 2015 http://www.egs.edu/ Thomas Zummer, artist and independent scholar, giving a talk on the apparatus in Foucault and Agamben, the phantasma and the sublime. In the final section of the clip, Leslie Thornton’s film “A philosopher’s walk on the sublime” is shown. Theorists …

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Foucauldian Genealogies of Desire: Interest, Instinct and the Law A talk by Miguel de Beistegui (Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick) Link to event page This talk is available on itunes. Search this page Taking his point of departure in Foucault’s work from the mid to late 1970s, Professor de Beistegui will argue that the …

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SEMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein Samedi 24 janvier Philippe Sabot (Université Lille III) Relire Les Mots et les choses à la lumière des archives Samedi 24 janvier 2015, 10 h 30 – 12 h 30 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR de philosophie 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage droite, salle Lalande …

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Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014 Published on 1 Jan 2015 http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault’s Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish a set of modifications which have taken place in the practice of avowal leading to an increasing connection with juridical and …

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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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