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 …
Editor: For those of you who, like myself, are involved in teaching Foucault: I find this analysis by Slavoj Žižek of John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live, from Sophie Fiennes’ 2012 film The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology to be particularly apt.
Maurice Stierl, A Foucauldian Take on Border Violence and Mediterranean Acts of Escape , 04/25/16 Podcast on soundcloud The unauthorized mass-movements of 2015, when more than a million people crossed maritime borders into European space, demonstrated more clearly than ever before that Europe’s deterrence politics had failed. The necropolitical obstacle course created by its border …
Thanasis Lagios, Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism 20th March 2015 | 12:00 – 12:45 Conference paper, audio podcast on The Voice Republic site Thanasis Lagios studied Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology (specialization: Philosophy), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1998 – 2003). Having completed his postgraduate studies (MA) in Political Philosophy at the University …
Des jardins autres, L’Harmattan , Sous la direction de Alexandre Néné et Sarah Carmo Archives Karéline ENVIRONNEMENT, NATURE, ÉCOLOGIE PHILOSOPHIEURBANISME, AMÉNAGEMENT, SOCIOLOGIE URBAINE ISBN : 978-2-35748-111-4 • mai 2015 • 324 pages L’extension des villes, la dissolution de leur espace et le phénomène de périurbanisation font du jardin une composante du paysage urbain de plus …
Colin Koopman, Historicizing the Critique of Power 20th March 2015 | 14:15 – 15:00 Conference paper, audio podcast on the Voice Republic site Colin Koopman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also 2014-15 Humanities Research Fellow and 2015-16 Wulf Professor of Humanities. He has published widely on genealogy, …
Michel Foucault’s Death Valley Trip Heather Dundas 20th March 2015 | 17:30 – 18:15 Conference Paper, audio and podcast on Voice Republic Heather Dundas is a Russell Fellow and a candidate for the Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she is writing her dissertation on the intersection of …
A Foucauldian Take on Border Violence and Mediterranean Acts of Escape, Maurice Stierl, 04/25/16 CIR/UC Berkeley Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research (CIR) / UC Berkeley Berkeley, United States Audio Lecture on Soundcast
Anders Fogh Jensen, Foucault – Systems of Thought – Systems of Management and Governance (2013) Foucault – Systems of Thought: Systems of Management and Governance. Danish philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen guides us through some of the primary issues in the philosophy of Michel Foucault (1926-84). Anders demonstrates that, to Foucault, the history of the systems …
Political Science Department and the The France Chicago Center present “Reflections on Foucault’s Lessons on the Will to Know”, with Daniel Defert, Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt Julius Kreeger Professor and, Chairman of the Political Science Department. Daniel Defert edited the French edition of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au Collège de …
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