Foucault News

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

Séminaire Michel Foucault : « Foucault et la question sociale » Année 2015-2016 Flyer – PDF Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Lille 3 Séance n°1 (UPEC) – 18/12/15 Campus centre, Salle des thèses (bâtiment P, rdc), 14h-18h Présentation générale du séminaire Alex Feldman (U. Penn) : ” Foucault et la sociologie de la connaissance ” Ivan Ponton …

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DEAKIN PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR, DECEMBER 8, 2015 A/Prof. Colin Koopman (University of Oregon), “The Infopolitics of Race: Segregation by Data, 1923-1938” Abstract: Contemporary political assemblages from mass surveillance to finance capitalism to big data suggest that we may be in the midst of new political conditions. Many have sought to conceptualize these assemblages in such terms …

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Open University December philosophy seminar Dr Luca Sciortino (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds) ‘Styles of Thinking and Epistemic Relativism’ 2pm December 2nd 2015 Meeting Room 5, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes Abstract In the 1980s Ian Hacking put forward the ‘styles project’, as he called it, whose central idea is that there exist distinct styles …

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Michel Foucault and the smart city (2015) Francisco Klauser – Neuchátel University – from The Programmable City Video of paper Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s approach to power and governmentality, the paper explores the regulatory dynamics inherent in contemporary data-driven forms of regulation and management-at-a-distance of urban systems. More specifically, channelled through Michel Foucault’s concept of …

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Foucault 4/13: LIVESTREAM You can also find it at this link This will also be available as a recording after the event October 26, 2015, 6:15pm Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University Alondra Nelson, Columbia University Moderators: Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University Jesús R. Velasco, Columbia University Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and …

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Livestream of Seminar 3 of Foucault 13/13 This will also be available as a recording after the event October 12, 2015, 6:15pm Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) and EHESS Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University Moderators: Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University Jesús R. Velasco, Columbia University

Programme École Doctorale de l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault IMEC PDF flyer 14, 15 et 16 octobre 2015 Contacts : Arianna Sforzini : arianna.sforzini@univ-paris-est.fr ; 0781684341 Judith Revel : jrevel@u-paris10.fr ; 0667320713 Mercredi 14 octobre : Train Paris Saint Lazare-Caen, départ 8h45 Arrivée Caen : 10h53, transfert à l’IMEC Déjeuner Après-midi, première séance Clara …

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