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

Critique de la participation et gouvernementalité, Participations N° 6, 2013/2, 228 pages Special Issue Further info SOMMAIRE Dossier : Critique de la participation et gouvernementalité Page 5 à 33 Guillaume Gourgues et al. Gouvernementalité et participation Lectures critiques Page 35 à 63 Pierre Sauvêtre La problématisation de la participation à travers l’histoire de la gouvernementalité …

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Les néolibéralismes de Michel Foucault, Raisons politiques, N° 52, 2013/4, 172 pages. Special Issue https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2013-4 Présentation En 1979, Michel Foucault prononce un cours au Collège de France intitulé “Naissance de la biopolitique”. Cet ensemble de leçons propose un examen du néolibéralisme allemand (Ordolibéralisme) et américain (École de Chicago). Foucault, dans ce cadre, propose des constructions …

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 The special edition, Privacy and Dataveillance Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, …

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CFP: Theoria: The Police and the Theory of the State Submission deadline: Friday, February 28 2014 The editors of Theoria: A journal of Social and Political Theory invite contributors to interrogate contemporary political and social theory through the lens of policing, with the view of connecting politics and policing. Well documented reflections based on a …

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Arthur E. Walzer, Parrēsia, Foucault, and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition (2013) Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 43 (1), pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2012.740130 Abstract In his last seminars, Michel Foucault analyzed parrēsia (frank speech) in classical Greece and Rome, a subject also addressed by classical rhetoricians. Foucault regards parrēsia as an idealized modality of truth telling-unartful, sincere, courageous speech …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 16 A Special Issue on Foucault and Feminism guest edited by Cressida J. Heyes Issue 16 also includes: 3 original articles on the topics of: Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche’s notion of power Foucault, Althusser and the Marxist tradition Stultitia and patient education. 10 book reviews …

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materiali foucaultiani Volume II, number 3 (January-June 2013) ISSN 2239-5962 See site for full texts of articles TABLE OF CONTENTS Michel Foucault: un phénomène de bibliothèque? Spunti di riflessione a partire da un’installazione di Joseph Kosuth  (pp. 3-9) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Foucault e la letteratura Introduzione. Sulle ragioni di una …

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Free 1 Day Conference Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine.] Conveners: Ansgar Allen & Wilfred Carr; Keynotes: Erica Burman & Stephen Ball Hosted, sponsored and funded by the international journal Pedagogy, Culture …

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L’Actualité Poitou-Charentes n°99 : Michel Foucault, Moi, Pierre Rivière… Le numéro 99, janvier, février et mars 2013, de L’Actualité Poitou-Charentes, la revue trimestrielle éditée par l’Espace Mendès France, vient de paraître. Édito Si Michel Foucault est au cœur de cette édition de L’Actualité, ce n’est pas le fait du hasard. Deux dossiers ont déjà été …

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Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies welcomes proposal submissions for Volume 29 (for publication in 2015). The journal editors are interested in proposals across the range of cultural and media studies, such as: the relationship between media texts and wider questions of culture; contemporary issues in popular culture and consumption; publics and nations; and …

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