Foucault News

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

The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at University of Western Sydney, Australia presents following seminar on Wednesday July 4: SPEAKER: Peter Gratton (Memorial University of Newfoundland) TITLE: Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity TIME: July 4, 3-5pm PLACE: UWS Bankstown Campus, 3.G.55 ABSTRACT: Much has been written about bio-political …

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Presentation & Discussion of the book by Michel Foucault, “Sull’origine dell’ermeneutica del sé”, edited by mf / materiali foucaultiani (Cronopio, 2012) See mf site for further details with Carla Benedetti (Università di Pisa), Antonella Moscati (Edizioni Cronopio), Laura Cremonesi (Università di Pisa) and Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths College, London) Thursday, May 24, 2012, 2:30pm Introduction by …

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The Foucault Society presents For the published version, see Beloso, Brooke M., “Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault’s Unreason”, Foucault Studies / (2017): 141-166. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5345 Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:30-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY Beloso turns to Foucault’s History of Madness (1961) in order to trace a new queer …

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Séminaire “La décolonisation des savoirs. Pour une géographie postcoloniale de la connaissance” (sous la direction de Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Matthieu Renault) Mercredi 11 avril 2012, 14h-17h Université Paris-Est Créteil, Maison des Langues, salle 117 Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot) « Depuis la première publication en France de l’Orientalisme d’Edward Saïd, une place a-t-elle …

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Luca Paltrinieri, « L’archéologie à l’épreuve de l’analyse du langage : Foucault avec Wittgenstein » Quatrième séance du séminaire « Philosophie française & Philosophie analytique au 20e siècle » Mardi 3 avril 2012, 17h-19h, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France Il est désormais connu que Foucault connaissait et lisait l’œuvre du philosophe autrichien pendant l’écriture de …

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Jessica Whyte, Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene Published later as chapter in New Critical Legal Thinking. Law and the Political, Edited By Matthew Stone, Illan Wall, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Law Press, 2012 The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at UWS TIME: March 21, 2-4pm …

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La gouvernementalité socialiste Quatrième soirée-débat : avec Pierre Dardot et Christian Laval Saint-Simon et Marx : gouvernement des hommes et administration des choses mardi 20 mars 2012, à 19h au Lieu-Dit (6 rue Sorbier, Paris, M° Ménilmontant) France Présentation du séminaire : Dans une formule provocatrice, Michel Foucault estimait « qu’il n’y a pas de …

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The Foucault Society, NYC Bernard Gendron, “Foucault’s 1968” Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:30-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY, USA Abstract: Foucault’s relation to May 1968 is crucial for understanding the transformation in his theory and practice in the years 1969-1974, leading to the publication of Discipline and Punish. This …

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Eileen Joy has posted a seminar syllabus and a link to a book chapter in progress on the In the Middle blog. I want to share with everyone here two recent fruits of these projects — a book chapter-in-progress and a seminar syllabus recently proposed, with Anna Klosowska, to the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance …

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