Foucault News

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

Miro Brada, Discontinuity, the new Artform This film was presented during an exhibition in Holland Park, UK between 18.Oct-3.Nov 2013: http://mirobrada.blogspot.co.uk/2013/… It is partially based on the philosophy of Michel Foucault… The interview I was doing with Miroslav Marcelli (a student of Foucault) about Foucault philosophy is here: http://mirobrada.blogspot.co.uk/2013/… You can also find this interview …

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Thomas Zummer. Foucault, the apparatus and the sublime. 2014 Published on 12 Feb 2015 http://www.egs.edu/ Thomas Zummer, artist and independent scholar, giving a talk on the apparatus in Foucault and Agamben, the phantasma and the sublime. In the final section of the clip, Leslie Thornton’s film “A philosopher’s walk on the sublime” is shown. Theorists …

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Foucauldian Genealogies of Desire: Interest, Instinct and the Law A talk by Miguel de Beistegui (Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick) Link to event page This talk is available on itunes. Search this page Taking his point of departure in Foucault’s work from the mid to late 1970s, Professor de Beistegui will argue that the …

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Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014 Published on 1 Jan 2015 http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault’s Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish a set of modifications which have taken place in the practice of avowal leading to an increasing connection with juridical and …

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Michel Foucault: The Late Lectures Columbia Maison Française November 7, 2014, a panel discussion with Seyla Benhabib, François Ewald, Bernard E. Harcourt, George Kateb, and Emmanuelle Saada. In his late Collège de France lectures, Michel Foucault opened up new paths for research, what he so often referred to as “des pistes de recherche,” many of …

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Disposable Life – Jean Franco Histories of Violence is a multi-media forum dedicated to exploring the theoretical, empirical and aesthetic dimensions to violence. Founded and Directed by Dr. Brad Evans, this trans-disciplinary project provides an open access platform for the specific purposes of academic and public engagement; knowledge transfer; political discussion; philosophical reflection; along with …

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