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

Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault — Philosophy and Psychology (1965), From the Verso Books blog, 9 January 2018 Watch a televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault on philosophy and psychology. A televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault, under the heading “Philosophy and Psychology,” is available to stream in …

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Crítica da representação e crise da ontologia: Foucault e Magritte – Philippe Sabot Facebook page No final de novembro de 2016, os Programas de Pós-Graduação em História e Filosofia da UFG organizaram uma jornada dedicada aos 50 anos de “As Palavras e as Coisas”. “Crítica da representação e crise da ontologia: Foucault e Magritte” foi …

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Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn (eds), Challenging the Punitive Society, Carceral Notebooks, Volume 12, 2016, General Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. See also this announcement on Andrew T. Dilt’s blog.   TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Bernard E. Harcourt Introduction: Challenging the Punitive Society Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn Part I. Foucault and the Legacy of the …

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Published on Jun 29, 2017 El viernes 18 de septiembre, Judith Butler dictó su segunda conferencia “Foucault, obrando mal, diciendo la verdad”. En esta ocasión, las palabras de introducción fueron las de Daniel Berisso y Facundo Giuliano, docentes a cargo del seminario “La educación entre la violencia ética y el reconocimiento responsable. Un abordaje ético-político”

Power inscribes order on space through codes. Bureaucratic codes measure and normalize dynamic ecologies and constitute the substrate of any infrastructural system, organization, and praxis. They striate space and punctuate time to increase efficiency, maximize profit, reduce risk, and maintain order in cultural, social, economic, and political spheres. #decoding gauges the agency of spatial practices …

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Fully automated episode 2: biopolitical imperialism, with Mark G.E. Kelly Podcast Our guest this week is Mark G. E. Kelly, an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault (2009), as well as of Biopolitical Imperialism (from Zer0 …

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