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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022 The fourth and final book in my series of studies of Foucault’s career is now published in the UK. US and rest of the world will follow in early 2023. Polity’s books are distributed by Wiley, and they should be…
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In 1975, Foucault was interviewed by Jacques Chancel on the radio. It is reprinted in Dits et écrits as text 161, “Radioscopie de Michel Foucault”. The French text is here and the recording here. Comparing the transcription and the recording shows that it has been cleaned up quite a bit…
Russell-Mayhew, S., Estefan, A., Moules, N.J., Lefebvre, D., Morhun, J.M., Saunders, J.F., Wong, K., Myre, M. The optics of weight: expert perspectives from the panopticon and synopticon (2022) Psychology and Health DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2022.2117810 Abstract Objective: That we all weigh something is a fact of life, yet the material reality of weight is refracted through multiple …
Petite philosophie du col roulé Frédéric Manzini publié le 20 octobre 2022, Philosophie magazine Quel est le point commun entre les Black Panthers, Bruno Le Maire, Emmanuel Macron et le philosophe Michel Foucault ? Le col roulé bien sûr ! Ce vêtement fait beaucoup parler ces derniers temps parce qu’il incarnerait l’effort de sobriété auquel …
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There are two recent reviews of The Early Foucault by Colin Koopman at The Review of Politics (requires subscription) and Jasper Friedrich at Foucault Studies (open access). They are generous and appreciative, though not uncritical. I’m grateful to both for taking the time to engage. Here’s the first two paragraphs of Koopman’s review: Stuart…
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This is a short account of an interesting event and a rather specialist request for help. In the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s the?Institut collégial européen organised a series of events, most of which were reported in their annual Bulletin. I’m looking for the one reporting on a September…
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Sorry to hear this news – Libération, L’Obs, Le Monde
Stephen Reicher, God save the Queue: how the wait to see the Queen’s coffin transformed people, The Conversation, Tue 20 Sep 2022 strange thing has happened since last week, when I wrote about how myself and other social psychologists were studying the crowds of people queueing to watch the ceremonials following the death of Queen …
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Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions Please register your interest to attend either in person or virtually the?IAS Lecture Series?Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions?to be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick,…
Mark Jennings, The Anglican split: why has sexuality become so important to conservative Christians? The Conversation, August 29, 2022 The newly formed “Diocese of the Southern Cross” has broken away from the Anglican Church of Australia to form a denomination committed to a highly conservative position on sexuality and marriage equality. Global Anglican Futures Conference …
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