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

Michel Foucault, “Discourse and Truth” and “Parresia”, Chicago University Press, 2019 Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini With an Introduction by Frédéric Gros English edition established by Nancy Luxon The Chicago Foucault Project This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book …

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Anton Lee (2018) Review: The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, History of Photography, 42:3, 306-308. DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2018.1531600 Review of the exhibition catalog The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, edited by Brian Wallis (Göttingen: Steidl, 2015) [,,,] The paucity of serious attention to The Order of Things is curious, given …

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Foucault, Michel. « La magie – le fait social total », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 305-326. DOI 10.3917/zil.002.0305 – Rapport à la société – Rapport à la technique qu’elle imite. – Rapport à la société D’un côté opposition à la société – Ségrégation du magicien dans la société, ce qui n’arrive pas …

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New issue of Critical Inquiry: Davidson and His Interlocutors Volume 45, Number 2 | Winter 2019 Open access Articles in this issue include amongst others David Halperin, Queer Love Daniele Lorenzini, The Emergence of Desire: Notes Toward a Political History of the Will Michel Foucault, Structuralism and Literary Analysis

Michel Foucault et le CERFI : un étrange « inédit » par Philippe Chevallier, Ici et ailleurs, 28 octobre 2018 En faisant l’inventaire des archives de son défunt collègue du département de philosophie de Paris 8 Kyril Ryjik, Alain Brossat est tombé sur un tapuscrit ronéotypé intitulé « Émergence des équipements collectifs. État d’avancement des travaux », avec la mention …

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Mike McClelland, Foucault at the Movies: by Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan, Spectrum Culture, 9 October 2018. An attractive, tidily organized collection of famed French philosopher Michel Foucault’s writing about film as well as scholarly reflections on that writing, translator/editor Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault at the Movies is a necessity for film scholars and philosophers alike. Filled …

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The 25th issue of Foucault Studies, Foucault and Philosophical Practice, has now been published. (September 2018) The journal is open source. The issue amounts to no less than 23 contributions and a sum total of more than 400 pages. In addition to the special issue on “Foucault and Philosophical Practice”, comprising four articles with a …

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Special issue on Foucault in Iran Iran Namag Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2018 English Verso Foucault and Iran Reconsidered: Revolt, Religion, and Neoliberalism Michiel Leezenberg French Secular Thought: Foucault and Political Spirituality Brian Turner Risking Prophecy in the Modern State: Foucault, Iran, and the Conduct of the Corey McCall Foucault and Epicureanism of the …

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Michel Foucault : “Je me suis demandé si l’analyse que j’avais faite sur la prison ne pouvait pas être transposée à la sexualité” France Culture, podcast, 07/01/2018 1977 C’était dans un “Après-midi de France Culture“ dont Michel Foucault était l’invité, à l’occasion de la parution de La volonté de savoir, premier tome de son Histoire de la sexualité. …

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Editor: I am delighted to have just received a first copy of the new book. Foucault at the Movies Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan. Translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, Columbia University Press, 2018 Michel Foucault’s work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his unique vision to bear on …

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