Foucault News

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

PDF flyer Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches Journée d’étude autour de Michel Foucault, La Société punitive (1972-1973) Mardi 17 décembre 2013 de 10h à 13h, salles du conseil A & B de 14h30 à 18h, salle Jean-Pierre Vernant, 8e étage, EHESS 190 av de France 75013 Paris Videos of sessions. Programme 10h00 …

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Foucault , Neoliberalism and Global Post-Politics Canadian Centre for German and European Studies site at the University of Montreal Les films de l’atelier du CCEAE tenu à Berlin en mai 2012 Vous trouverez ici tous les films réalisés pendant l’atelier sur Foucault qui s’est tenu à Berlin en mai 2012 sur le thème : Using and …

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Dr. Thomas Lemke: “Biopolitics: Current Issues and Future Challenges” Keynotes from the Biopolitics, Society, and Performance conference. October 2012, Trinity College Dublin. Also of interest, another keynote lecture from the same conference Rosi Bradotti: “What is ‘Human’ about the Humanities today?” With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

Source: Critical Theory blog […] Chomsky proceeds to answer a question concerning Foucault’s idea of regimes of truth, attacking Foucault as someone who “wildly exaggerates” the influence of power in scientific discourse. This is the idea that what is portrayed as incontrovertible scientific fact is rather a product of specific power relations which produce that …

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Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Narrated by Simon Prebble Tantor Audio Books Publication Date: 09/23/2013 Running Time: 13 hrs 8 min Editorial comment: This ebook seems to be subject to stringent copyright zone restrictions (available in the US, but not in some other countries). A customer comment on Amazon indicated …

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From the Critical Theory blog In the following audio recording, Michel Foucault lectures at UC Berkeley in 1983, a year before his death, on the subject “The Culture of the Self.” Foucault starts with a story written by Greek satirist Lucian. In the story, Hermotimus, a Greek philosopher, walks mumbling in the street. A friend …

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