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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality has inspired a wide variety of responses, ranging from philosophy…
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Michael Bibby has produced a hybrid translation of the ‘Stultifera Navis’ chapter of Foucault’s History of Madness. It draws on both the existing English translations, and comes with various texts as an introduction and a selection of images.
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Najeeb Jan is seeking panelists for the 2013 Los Angeles meeting of the AAG. Please note since this is a panel discussion, you will not need to submit an abstract. If you are interested in joining the panel discussion please email Najeeb Jan (najeeb.jan@colorado.edu) Foucault after Agamben: Rethinking the Language of…
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The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, at least in the first volume of Homo Sacer, on…
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Foucault’s 1976 lecture ‘The Mesh of Power’ is available online in English (with a link to the French) at Viewpoint Magazine. This lecture was previously translated by Gerald Moore for the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection Jeremy Crampton and I edited. But this version includes the discussion that…
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This is my abstract for the AAG meeting in Los Angeles next April. It will be part of the ‘Violence and Space’ sessions organised by Philippe le Billon and Simon Springer – call for papers here. I’ll also be part of a panel on Sloterdijk organised by Oliver Belcher and…
Via Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies The Funambulist blog has been running a series of posts on Foucault Episode 1: Michel Foucault’s Architectural Underestimation Episode 2: Do not Become Enamored of Power Episode 3: “Mon Corps, Topie Impitoyable” Episode 4: The cartography of power Episode 5: The political technology of the body Episode 6: Architecture and Discipline: the hospital Episode …
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Long out of print, Maladie mentale et personnalité was Foucault’s first book from 1954, reissued as Maladie mentale et psychologie in substantially revised form. It is freely available here.
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University of Chicago Press finally have a page up for the translation of Foucault’s 1981 lectures at Louvain – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. They are due out in January 2013. Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained…
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Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism and Hegelianism, around such issues as the meaning of history…
