Foucault News

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

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Samuel Lindholm, Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era – Routledge, September 2023 A prohibitively priced hardback only at this point… This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disregards or eliminates life. By analyzing…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault – Archive ouverte HAL Marie-Laure Massot, “Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault“. Master. Atelier autour des archives, Centre documentaire du CAPHES, France. 2023. ⟨hal-04057849⟩ Avec près de 20 000 feuillets numérisés…

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
1) INTRODUCTION I am providing a translation of the incipit as reproduced at the end of a pre-publication review of Michel Foucault’s forthcoming book PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. The review was published online by Philosophy Magazine and discusses the ideas expressed therein chiefly in structuralist-demarcationist terms, given that the book focuses on…

Schmidgen, Henning, et al. “From the Archive to the Computer: Michel Foucault and the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Mar. 2023, doi:10.22148/001c.55795. Abstract Michel Foucault famously introduced the method of “discourse analysis” in the humanities, especially in historiography. In his Archaeology of Knowledge, originally published in 1969, in particular, Foucault …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I discuss my recent book The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) on the New Books Network with Dave O’Brien (audio) Dave has now generously discussed all the books in this series: Foucault’s Last Decade, 21 September 2016 Foucault: The Birth of Power, 6 November 2017 The Early Foucault, 11 February…

Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, A workshop hosted by the RHUL Centre for Continental Philosophy Royal Holloway University of London The workshop will take place in Senate House, Central London, on May 19th, 2023 To register for the conference, please use the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translation-archive-and-nachlass-in-the-continental-tradition-tickets-600187185027 We have put together this workshop to …

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Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The manuscript dates from 1966, it was written after THE ORDER OF THINGS, published in 1966, and before…

Elyamany, N. Postcyberpunk dystopian cityscape and emotion artificial intelligence: A spatio-cognitive analysis of posthuman representation in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (2022) Convergence DOI: 10.1177/13548565221122913 Abstract Within visual culture, postcyberpunk films are best approached as places of Otherness whereby human identity and agency are downplayed and posthumans are magnified in highly technopolic societies marked with scientific …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I have a review of Elisabetta Basso’s excellent Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955, translated by Marie Satya McDonough?(Columbia University Press,?2022) in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The review is unfortunately behind a paywall, so here are some of the key…