Foucault News

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

Wendy Brown, In the account of Neoliberalism. 2016 European Graduate School Video Lectures Published on Jan 25, 2017 http://www.egs.edu Wendy Brown, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee Switzerland. August 13 2016. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Her research interests include the history …

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A Foucauldian Take on Border Violence and Mediterranean Acts of Escape, Maurice Stierl, 04/25/16 Audio of lecture Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society, Townsend Center for the Humanities: Course Thread on Law and the Humanities, and the Institute of European Studies. The unauthorized mass-movements of 2015, when more than a …

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As part of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion Forum 2009-10 Lecture Series, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at HDS, presented “Reading Foucault: Becoming Again What We Never Were” on April 12, 2010. This event was sponsored by the Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion at Harvard.

Interview with Stuart Elden by Dave O’Brien (podcast) on the New Books Network In relation to Foucault’s Last Decade Polity Press 2016 Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity on his thought? In Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) Stuart Elden, …

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Editor: I posted up a review of this book earlier. It is attracting quite a bit of attention in France hence the repost. See the links at the end of this post Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir. Agone, 25/01/2016 Avant-propos de Benoit Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat. Et si …

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David Newheiser, Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism, 13, 2016, Theory, Culture & Society September 2016 vol. 33 no. 5 3-21 doi: 10.1177/0263276415619997 Abstract Although Foucault’s 1979 lectures on The Birth of Biopolitics promised to treat the theme of biopolitics, the course deals at length with neoliberalism while mentioning biopolitics hardly at all. …

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Editor: Although Rodrigo Firmino’s long running Panopticam project has stopped working, this is worth knowing about. Watching Jeremy, Watching Me, Watching Jeremy About this Project The idea of this project came from the irony of having the skeleton of the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (with a wax head and real clothes) – known, among other …

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