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

Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault 06 oct. 1982, Antenne 2, Site l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel présentateur Christine Ockrent Christine OCKRENT interviewe l’actrice Simone SIGNORET et le philosophe Michel FOUCAULT sur la situation en Pologne, où le syndicat Solidarité vient d’être interdit par le gouvernement. – Simone SIGNORET, qui porte un badge du syndicat polonais “Solidarité”, …

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Michel Foucault and the smart city (2015) Francisco Klauser – Neuchátel University – from The Programmable City Video of paper Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s approach to power and governmentality, the paper explores the regulatory dynamics inherent in contemporary data-driven forms of regulation and management-at-a-distance of urban systems. More specifically, channelled through Michel Foucault’s concept of …

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Foucault 4/13: LIVESTREAM You can also find it at this link This will also be available as a recording after the event October 26, 2015, 6:15pm Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University Alondra Nelson, Columbia University Moderators: Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University Jesús R. Velasco, Columbia University Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and …

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Livestream of Seminar 3 of Foucault 13/13 This will also be available as a recording after the event October 12, 2015, 6:15pm Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) and EHESS Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University Moderators: Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University Jesús R. Velasco, Columbia University

Update on the Foucault 13/13 series Foucault 2/13: The Live Stream –28/09/15 at 6:15 EST (2015). Broadcasting from New York The live stream has now been posted as recorded content. Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972) TODAY at 6:15 EST.  Please tune …

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Jessica Whyte on Michel Foucault and ‘the right to intervene’ Audio of talk on the Foucault-Blog Last year Jessica Whyte from the University of Western Sydney was a visiting scholar at the Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens in Zurich. On October 22, she held a lecture on “A Right of Private Individuals or a Responsibility of …

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