Foucault News

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

Foucault 8/13 | Richard R.W. Brooks on Foucault’s “The Birth of Biopolitics” (1979) By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in concrete interactions …

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Foucault 8/13 | François Ewald on Foucault & Neoliberalism Transcribed and edited by Raphaëlle Jean Burns Reviewed and approved by François Ewald [Editors’ Note (Raphaëlle Jean Burns): This is an edited transcription of François Ewald’s talk at Hunter College CUNY on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 2:30-4:00 pm Room 204 Roosevelt House, Hunter College. The talk …

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Foucault 8/13: LIVESTREAM  Thursday, January 28, 2016 Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the livestream of the seminar here or below. We will also have a livestream overflow and discussion room at Columbia Law School, in Jerome Greene Hall …

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SEMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 CNRS – Paris 1/EXeCO) Première séance Samedi 23 janvier 2015, 10 h 30 – 12 h 30 (UFR de philosophie de la Sorbonne, escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande) François Delaporte (Université de Picardie) …

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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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