Marx as a Critical Vitalist
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Marx as a Critical Vitalist
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19th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA, USA
April 5-7, 2019
Friday, April 5th
3:00pm-5:00pm
Session 1: Confessions of the Flesh & A Preface to Transgression
Wencheng Zhu, Southeast University
Confession or Sign of Subjectivation?: Libido in Foucault’s Les Aveux de la Chair
Daniel Schultz, Oberlin College
Sex as the Seismograph of Subjectivity: Foucault’s Christian Archive
Charles Clements, Tufts University
Where There’s a Will There’s No Gay: Futurity and Nonknowledge in Foucault’s Reading of Bataille
Saturday, April 6th
9:00am-10:20am
Session 2: Archeology, History, and the Rational
Alex J. Feldman, Penn State University
The Real and the Rational in Foucault’s 1978 Debate with the Historians
Robert Leib, Florida Atlantic University
From a Priori History to Paradigmatic Ontology: Reconsidering Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben
10:40am-12:40am
Session 3: Genealogy and Subjugated Knowledges
Rebecca Longtin, SUNY, New Paltz
Formations and Transformations of the Sensible in Foucault, Rancière, and Wynter
Taryn Jordan, Emory University & Haylee Harrell, Emory University
“Black Foucault”: A Discussion of Genealogy as a Real Problem and a Real Possibility in Black Studies
Rosa Acevedo, University of Oregon
Limits and Paradoxes of Foucault’s Genealogy of Marginalized Lives
12:45-2pm: Lunch
2:00pm-4:00pm
Session 4: Abolition and Incarceration
Joy James, Williams College
The Architects of Contemporary Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and Michel Foucault
Selin Islekel, Loyola Marymount University
Life Without Parole, Death By Incarceration: Biopolitical Aesthetics of the Penitentiary
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ontological Incarceration: Toward a Genealogy of the Human Genome Project
4:15-5:30pm
Round-table Discussion: Foucault and Christianity
James Bernauer, Boston College | Jared Highlen, Boston College| Steven Ogden, Charles Sturt University
5:45-6:30: Business Meeting
7pm: Dinner
Sunday, April 7th
9:00-11:00am
Session 5: Animality, Religiosity, and Spectral Dreams
Dayne Alexander, Emory University
Animality, Logic and Murmur: Spiraling with the Animal in Michel Foucault’s History of Madness.
Adrian Switzer, Colby College
Aestheticized Transcendence, Archaeological Unreason: The Religiosity of History of Madness
Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Spectral Dreams, Fugitive Pleasures: Art as an Ethical Event of Thought
11:15am-12:35pm
Session 6: Illegalisms and Dispositifs
Delio Vasquez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Foucault on Political Crime: Towards a Unified Theory of Illegalisms
Ricky Crano, Tufts University
Can There Be a Digital Dispositif?: Visuality and Discourse in the Age of Telematic Culture
Travel to Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts
Here is a link to the Stonehill College web-page with a campus map and directions to the College:
https://www.stonehill.edu/visitors/directions-campus-map/
Stonehill College is approximately 20 miles south of Boston, MA and 25 miles north of Providence, RI. Book flights into Boston Logan International Airport or TF Green Airport outside Providence.
Unfortunately, there is no public transit from either airport or either city to Stonehill College. From the airport use Uber or Lyft ($40-50 each way) or rent a car. We suggest coordinating travel with other conference attendees in order to share rides and costs.
Lodging
The Marriott Residence Inn in Brockton/Easton (508-583-3600, https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bosbc-residence-inn-boston-brockton-easton/ ) has held a block of rooms at rate of $129 plus taxes for a studio and $139 for a suite. This rate will be held until March 5th. Call the hotel directly and let them know that you are traveling for the Stonehill Meeting of the Foucault Circle to get the special rate. The hotel about a 2 mile walk to the campus location of the conference in Alumni Auditorium. We are working to see if we can arrange a ride to and from the hotel (more information about that coming). I will update this information with other local lodging options.
Some may wish to stay in Boston during the conference. Depending on traffic conditions and starting point in the city it can take between 35 and 60 minutes to drive to Stonehill.
Philosophy is that which calls into question domination at every level and in every form in which it exists, whether political, economic, sexual, institutional, or what have you. To a certain extent, this critical function of philosophy derives from the Socratic injunction “Take care of yourself,” in other words, “Make freedom your foundation, through the mastery of yourself”.
Michel Foucault. 2000. “The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom.” In Ethics. Essential Works of Michel Foucault, edited by P. Rabinow. Vol. 2. 281-302. London: Penguin.
Editor: I will be running a reading group in Brisbane, Australia. All details can be found on the reading group website.
Dates
1, 15, 29 March; 12, 26 April; 10, 24 May
Time: 1 – 2.30pm fortnightly on Fridays
Venue: E block Room E351, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
Map of the campus.
Readings
1 March
Michel Foucault and Farès Sassine, There can’t be societies without uprisings, In Foucault and the making of subjects. Eds. Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016, pp. 25-51
15 March
Michel de Certeau, Walking in the City, In Michel de, Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, 2011.
Program for remainder of semester
We will systematically be reading through Michel Foucault, Wrong-doing, Truth-telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Eds. Fabienne Brion, Bernard E. Harcourt, Trans. Stephen W. Sawyer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
29 March
Inaugural lecture and first lecture
12 April
Second lecture and third lecture
26 April
Fourth lecture and fifth lecture
10 May
Sixth lecture
24 May
Interview with André Berten
Keck, C.S. Radical educations in subjectivity: the convergence of psychotherapy, mysticism and Foucault’s ‘politics of ourselves’
(2019) Ethics and Education, 14 (1), pp. 102-115.
DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2018.1554789
Abstract
Foucault’s invitation to the subject is to become free of themselves by learning to think differently. Such a project has as its goal the mastery of the self, and can be understood as a Foucaultian ‘politics of ourselves’. Foucault’s ethical turn is an invitation for subjectivity to undertake its own radical education. Whilst this invitation has characteristics unique to Foucault’s philosophical discipline, I argue that it sheds light upon a diversity of practices of subjectivity from the psychotherapeutic and mystic traditions. By seeing these currently available technologies of self in the Foucaultian lens we are given the opportunity to appreciate their work on subjectivity as necessarily political and social, a radical education not limited to the realm of individualistic aspiration and narcissistic temptations. The paper concludes by drawing attention to some implications for education, and for a teacher education that embraces the ‘radical reflexivity’ of some psycho-spiritual practices.
Author Keywords
Foucault; politics of ourselves; psychotherapeutic and mystic practices; radical education; subjectivity; teacher education
Leman-Langlois, S. State Mass Spying as Illegalism
(2018) Critical Criminology, 26 (4), pp. 545-561.
DOI: 10.1007/s10612-018-9421-z
Abstract
Periodic revelations about the workings of data interception, analysis and collection in Canada have each time prompted successive administrations to amend laws and regulations in order to calm public opinion. This has been referred to as “accountability through scandal” and has, for the most part, produced cosmetic changes rather than significant reform. Most of the practices and the ethos of the organizations have remained the same, setting the stage for the next scandal. This paper reviews the last scandal to befall the Canadian Security Establishment, caused by the Snowden revelations, and the subsequent political response. Approached with part of Foucault’s toolbox it becomes clear that the business of the state and state security requires a particular form of “management of illegalisms,” or differential treatment of rule-breaking, at the higher echelons of state power.
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)
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The paucity of serious attention to The Order of Things is curious, given the book’s value as an independent source of reference for photography scholars and practitioners apart from the concomitant exhibition. It is equally regrettable that the publication has largely been overlooked by the readers of Michel Foucault, despite the fact that the book was named after the French thinker’s influential study originally published as Les Mots et les Choses (1966). Foucault’s preface to his book is reprinted in the catalogue, alongside other new and old essays, including Walter Benjamin’s ‘A Little History of Photography’ (1931), Allan Sekula’s ‘The Body and the Archive’ (1986), George Baker’s ‘August Sander, Degeneration, and the Decay of the Portrait’ (1996), and Geoffrey Batchen’s ‘Ordering Things’ (2015). The book’s importance has been growing ever since it was first published in 2015, in accordance with the reputation of the Walther Collection as one of the world’s most significant collections of historical and contemporary photographs, especially those made in Africa and China. Not only does The Order of Things shed light on the genesis of the collection by providing an interview with Walther, but the book’s theme also attests to the collector’s proclivity for acquiring an entire set or batch of photographs that may or may not have been conceived as a series.
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Book description
Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted to classify the world and its people. Driven by a belief in the scientific objectivity of photographic evidence, the systems utilized to classify photographs have shaped modern visual culture. Accompanying the exhibition The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, this book investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, vernacular imagery, architectural surveys and time-based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Setting early modernist photographers Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander in dialogue with contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Zanele Muholi, Stephen Shore and Zhang Huan, The Order of Things illustrates how typological methods in photography have developed globally.
Call for papers
Rencontres Doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault
11-13 septembre 2019
IMEC – Caen
L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose pour la 8ème année une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est comme les années précédentes de mettre en relation, le plus agréablement possible et de manière assez informelle, les jeunes chercheurs afin de constituer un réseau de travail national et international, et de leur donner l’occasion de présenter leurs travaux.
Cette rencontre aura lieu du 11 au 13 septembre 2019 à l’Abbaye d’Ardenne à Caen (avec un départ de Paris le mercredi 11 septembre en milieu de journée et un retour le vendredi 13 septembre en fin de journée).
Les frais de séjour sur place et les billets de train à partir de Paris (Paris-Caen-Paris) seront offerts aux intervenants par l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault.
Pour que les échanges puissent être les plus féconds possibles – et compte tenu des capacités d’accueil de l’Abbaye – nous limitons le nombre de participants, ce qui impliquera nécessairement un choix de notre part. Les doctorants ayant participé les années passées aux rencontres pourront décider d’y assister, mais la priorité sera donnée aux nouveaux intervenants et aux doctorants en 2ème et 3ème année de thèse.
Les propositions d’intervention (2500 signes max.), portant soit sur une question particulière du travail de thèse, soit sur un problème méthodologique précis, devront nous être envoyées, avec un CV (indiquant obligatoirement l’année et le titre de la thèse, le nom du directeur, de l’université et de l’École doctorale de rattachement) avant le 30 avril 2019. En fonction des demandes, nous établirons et diffuserons un programme le 15 mai 2019.
Contact : journeescmf@gmail.com
Ces rencontres doctorales sont ouvertes à tous les étudiant.e.s sans distinction de nationalité, mais la langue de travail sera le français (avec possibilité éventuelle d’intervenir en anglais).
N’hésitez pas à nous contacter pour toute question.
Très cordialement,
L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault
Janaka Siyambalapitiya, Xu Zhangand Xiaobing Liu, Is governmentality the missing link for greening the economic growth?
(2018) Sustainability (Switzerland), 10 (11), art. no. 4204.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114204
Abstract
The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the green growth research has failed to address the real extent of interconnections and complexity of the relationship between governance and economic, social, and environmental structures. Furthermore, current green growth research tends to focus on the country level, such as the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable development indices, which risks ignoring the additional impacts on micro industrial economies. The lack of connection between green growth and good governance-known as environmental governance-is a crucial gap in practical adoption. Therefore, this study uses Foucault’s governmentality lens to view green growth as a technique of government, seeking an environmentally focused eco-governmentality. We examine the transformation, differential definitions, and critical dimensions of green growth in relation to particular case studies taken from China and South Korea and frame them for future sustainable studies. The findings of this study highlight the significant role of interdisciplinary research, as well both bottom-up and top-down initiatives, on enabling the transition to green growth. The proposed research framework and implementation strategy also identifies new avenues for future research and practices in the field of sustainable development, making it one of the study’s key contributions to the literature. © 2018 by the authors.
Author Keywords
Circular economy; Economic growth model; Environmental management; Environmental sustainability; Governmentality; Green growth; Sustainable management
Index Keywords
economic growth, environmental economics, environmental management, government, green economy, growth modeling, interdisciplinary approach, Millenium Development Goal, sustainability, sustainable development; China, South Korea
Cleland, J., Cashmore, E. Nothing Will Be the Same Again After the Stade de France Attack: Reflections of Association Football Fans on Terrorism, Security and Surveillance
(2018) Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 42 (6), pp. 454-469.
Abstract
Following the attempted terrorist attack at the friendly match between France and Germany at the Stade de France on November 13, 2015, this article draws on the response of 1,500 association football fans to the threat of terrorism in the world’s most popular sport. Its primary focus was to ask fans to reflect on their own experiences of security and surveillance and what extent the attempted attack on the Stade de France will have on the management of football crowds. Drawing on the themes of surveillance devised by Michel Foucault, the results outline how some fans accept additional measures of security and surveillance as a means of protecting their safety but others resist this as overly excessive and intrusive and argue it negatively affects their match-day experience. The article concludes by reflecting on the management of football crowds given the response by fans and the changes already taking place since November 2015. © The Author(s) 2018.
Author Keywords
football; Foucault; security; surveillance; terrorism
