Foucault News

E inutile revoltar-se? Foucault e as insurreições (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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11 October 2016

Foucault e as insurreições

Formas de vida e práticas dos valores: políticas da subjectividade no último Foucault (2016-2017)

Clare O'Farrell

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10 October 2016

Formas de vida e práticas dos valores: políticas da subjectividade no último Foucault
October 26, 2016 – February 15, 2017
Ciclo de seminários do EPLab

Todas as sessões se realizarão das 18h00 às 20h00, em sala a anunciar.

IFILNOVA – Instituto de Filosofia da Nova
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. Berna 26, Lisboa

Coordenação: Marta Faustino e Gianfranco Ferraro

26 Out – Marta Faustino: “A dimensão ético-politica do pensamento de Foucault”
16 Nov – José Caselas: “O sujeito reencontrado: a subjectividade como categoria política”
14 Dez – Marilia Muyalert: “A clinica do comum – desdobramentos de Foucault”
18 Jan – Gianfranco Ferraro: “Verdade e transformação de si: um pensamento do desassossego”
15 Fev – Paulo Roberto: “A parrésia em Foucault”

CFP: The seventeenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle (2016-2017)

Clare O'Farrell

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9 October 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

The seventeenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle

Los Angeles, California
March 23-25, 2017
(hosted by Loyola Marymount University)

We invite individual papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work. Studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking are all welcome. We will aim for a diversity of topics and perspectives.

Abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review, and are to be submitted to the program committee chair, Nicole Ridgway, by email (ridgwayn@uwm.edu) on/before Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Please indicate “Foucault Circle submission” in the subject heading, and include the abstract as a “.docx” attachment.
Individual paper submissions require an abstract of no more than 750 words.
Program decisions will be announced in December.

Each speaker will have approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion combined—papers should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes reading time). In addition to paper sessions, the conference will also feature a screening and discussion of Sur les toits, a documentary film on the 1970s prison revolts in France. This session will be open to all participants.

Logistical information about lodging, transportation, and other arrangements will be available after the program has been announced.

For more information about the Foucault Circle, please see our website:

Artaud mis en scène par Foucault : une « fiction critique » (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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9 October 2016

Jean-François Favreau, Artaud mis en scène par Foucault : une « fiction critique », Les Temps Modernes 2016/1 (n° 687-688)

Premières lignes
Ce que nous nous proposons d’aborder ici, ce sont les usages d’Artaud par Foucault, ce qui nous permet d’un côté de considérer un Foucault critique, metteur en scène de la pensée et de l’écriture d’Artaud, et de l’autre de réévaluer, en regardant du côté de sa réception, ce qu’on pourrait appeler les capacités de comédien d’Artaud. Ces capacités de comédien, appliquées à l’œuvre d’Artaud, font que…

Plan de l’article
La « scène de la folie »
Une histoire secrète de l’occident ou « la matérialité de la pensée »
L’absence d’œuvre, le héros
Artaud penseur
Les années 1970, la via negativa, l’effectivité
« Fiction critique » et figures de la littérature
Artaud irréductible

CFP: Government of Self Government of Others. Ethical and political questions in the late Foucault (2016-2017)

Clare O'Farrell

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8 October 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference

GOVERNMENT OF SELF, GOVERNMENT OF OTHERS

Ethical and political questions in the late Foucault

IFILNOVA / EPLab, Lisbon, 6^th-7^th March 2017

Organizers

Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro, Luís de Sousa

The Laboratory of Ethics and Political Philosophy of IFILNOVA invites submissions for its international conference “Government of Self, Government of Others. Ethical and Political Questions in the Late Foucault”, to be held at the New University of Lisbon, on the 6^th-7^th of March, 2017.

Michel Foucault’s last lecture series at Collège de France constitute a unity that testifies a shift in his thought. This shift deepens and expands the course of his preceding works concerning the genealogy of subjectivity, while, at the same time, adding to it a significant ethical and political dimension. Foucault returns to the practices of the self in antiquity and looks at the birth of the techniques of truth that allow us to understand how the Western subject has developed from the creation of particular relationships with its own body and other subjectivities. At the same time, these courses put in evidence the relationship between truth and power which lies at the core of Western forms of power and even Western democracy, thus inciting us to question our current political environment and face some political challenges of our time. Finally, Foucault’s concern in these last years with the technologies of ethical self-formation through what he calls “care of the self” sheds new light on his philosophical endeavor as a whole and situates his reflections at the center of contemporaneous moral debates.

On the occasion of the 35^th anniversary of The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982) and celebrating the conclusion of the publication of all the lecture courses from the 1980s – from On the Government of the Living (1979-1980) to The Courage of Truth (1984) -, this conference aims to (re)launch the critical debate on the last stage of Foucault’s thought, evaluating in what way and to which extent the perspectives that Foucault offers in this period might help us to unravel modernity and also give us tools to ethically and politically understand and transform our present.

We accept proposals on any of Foucault’s lecture courses from the 1980s or any interrelated aspect of the last period of his thought. The dialogue with other authors from the philosophical, sociological or political tradition is strongly encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:

Genealogy of subjectivity
Hermeneutics and truth
Care of the self and aesthetics of existence
Governmentality
Technologies of power and subjectivation
Will to truth and parrhesia
Knowledge and identity
Ethics and practices of freedom
Asceticism and philosophy
Foucault’s actuality

We welcome submissions from doctoral students, early career researchers or established academics. Paper proposals of 300 to 500 words, accompanied by a short biography (150 words), should be submitted (in either English, French or Portuguese) to ciclo.foucault@gmail.com by the 30^th of November of 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be given by the 15^th of December of 2016.

For further information, please contact ciclo.foucault@gmail.com.

Affective Governmentality. Governing Through Disgust in Uganda (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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7 October 2016

Michael Ashworth, Affective Governmentality. Governing Through Disgust in Uganda, Social & Legal Studies, September 23, 2016
doi: 10.1177/0964663916666630

Abstract
This article questions the extent to which calculable numbers are indispensable to the government of conduct. By focusing on the role played by disgust in the government of sexual minorities in Uganda, it provides an account of government by emotion, or affective governmentality. This article draws on the literature on disgust, appropriating elements from the various disciplines and perspectives and bringing them under a Foucauldian umbrella. It explores two techniques through which attempts were made to arouse disgust: the sermon and the tabloid exposé. Although such techniques were performed by agents who operated beyond the state, this article contends that the emergence of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014 cannot be accounted for without considering the role played by disgust.

Keywords
Affect Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014 disgust Foucault LGBT sexual minorities techniques of government Uganda

New website: Archeologia Filosofica (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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6 October 2016

Archeologia Filosofica Laboratorio

Sull’archeologia filosofica
Le ragioni di un laboratorio

L’archeologia filosofica è quel sapere delle formazioni discorsive indagate a partire dagli enunciati in cui si determinano i rapporti tra storia e filosofia. L’archeologia retrocede alle condizioni di possibilità del pensiero, a partire dalle relazioni tra saperi, poteri e soggetti. Il metodo archeologico genera genealogie di sopravvivenze, risalendo alla zona di indistinzione di storia e filosofia, natura e cultura, sapere e non sapere.

L’ “invenzione” epistemologica di Foucault, intesa nelle indagini filosofiche di Enzo Melandri e riproposta nella metodologia genealogica di Giorgio Agamben, è il modo della ricerca di una certa posizione in rapporto alla tradizione filosofica, all’etica (politica) e alla storia della verità.

L’archeologia filosofica ci consente la critica del presente, nell’inattualità di questa posizione che prevede l’esposizione dei dispositivi, lasciando emergere l’ apriori storico che ne è all’origine.

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Chi siamo

Alessandro Baccarin

Autore di articoli sulla filosofia antica e della monografia Il sottile discrimine. I corpi tra dominio e tecnica del sé (Ombre corte, 2014).

Stefano Gambari

si interessa di sistemi scientifici e popolari di classificazione, di metadati e sistemi di descrizione delle risorse; è autore di saggi e monografie di biblioteconomia.

Giacomo Gambaro

studia l’idealismo tedesco, le implicazioni pratiche della filosofia trascendentale di Fichte, la filosofia francese contemporanea di Foucault e Deleuze. Ha pubblicato gli articoli: Antonio Gramsci: dal liberismo ai consigli di fabbrica, in Il fantasma dell’Unità. Riletture del Risorgimento tra Grande Guerra e Fascismo (Mimesis, 2013); Dal teatro allo scacchiere. La concezione del potere in Bernard Mandeville, in Prima e dopo il Leviatano, (Cleup, 2014).

Walter Tossici

studia filosofia a “Sapienza” Università di Roma. E’ interessato alle tematiche del potere e del linguaggio in rapporto alle possibilità degli individui nelle condizioni di vita attuali.

Paolo B. Vernaglione

autore di saggi e testi tra i quali Il sovrano, l’altro, la storia (2006), Dopo l’Umanesimo (2008), Filosofia del comune (2013), Michel Foucault. Genealogie del presente (2014).

Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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5 October 2016

Editor: I am delighted to announce that my long out of print 1989 book (originally published with Macmillan) has been republished as an ebook.

Clare O’Farrell, Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? ebook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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The controversial French thinker, Michel Foucault, was famous not only for the variety of his interests but also for his frequent changes of position. Clare O’Farrell, in a lively and lucid account argues that for all this diversity his work was held together by a coherent theme, namely the idea that philosophy should be practised as an historical inquiry into the limits of ordered experience. At the same time, Foucault’s work is situated in its intellectual and social context in France and striking differences between its French- and English-language reception are discussed and explained.

Short previews of two chapters are available on the Springer site

1. A New Generation of Thinkers
2. The Same, the Other and the Limit
3. Discontinuity and Order
4. In Search of the Limit
5. The Limits Forgotten
6. The Return of the Limits

Du droit à l’émancipation. Sur l’État, Foucault et l’anarchisme (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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4 October 2016

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Du droit à l’émancipation. Sur l’État, Foucault et l’anarchisme

Séminaire ETAPE n°19
1 DÉCEMBRE 2015

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Séance à partir d’un texte de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, sociologue et philosophe, auteur notamment de : La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique (Fayard, 2012), L’Art de la révolte. Snowden, Assange, Manning (Fayard, 2015) et Juger. L’État pénal face à la sociologie (Fayard, janvier 2016)

Rapporteur « compréhensif » : Manuel Cervera-Marzal, docteur en science politique
Rapporteur « critique » : Rafael Perez, doctorant en histoire de la philosophie et co-fondateur des éditions libertaires Albache
Rapport compréhensif contribution Phillippe Corcuff

Du droit à l’émancipation. Sur l’État, Foucault et l’anarchisme
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie

La réflexion que je voudrais proposer porte sur la question du pouvoir, de la théorie du pouvoir et, plus spécifiquement, du problème de l’Etat. Je voudrais réfléchir sur la place que la théorie critique et la théorie de l’émancipation doivent accorder à l’Etat et sur l’image de l’Etat que, pour nous aider dans cette tâche, nous pouvons tirer des analyses de Michel Foucault. C’est une réflexion que j’ai été amené à conduire dans le cadre de mon dernier livre sur le système pénal et l’appareil répressif, puisque réfléchir sur le Jugement, la forme-Tribunal, la peine, c’est nécessairement rencontrer la problématique de l’Etat, du droit et du pouvoir d’Etat.

Je voudrais essayer de dire pourquoi, alors que j’ai longtemps pensé mon travail comme « anarchiste », je le suis de moins en moins – ou autrement dit comment écrire et réfléchir pour moi a consisté à m’éloigner de l’anarchisme et à renouer avec une certaine croyance dans l’Etat et dans le droit.

[…]
Cependant, contrairement à ce que pourrait laisser penser une lecture rapide, cela ne signifie en aucun cas que l’Etat soit absent de la vision de Foucault. L’idée selon laquelle le pouvoir vient d’en bas ne conduit pas à de désintéresser de l’Etat ou à l’éliminer comme objet de la théorie. Au contraire, la vision foucaldienne est solidaire d’une certaine image de l’Etat, d’une certaine conception de l’Etat dans ses rapports aux pouvoirs.

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Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century (2016)

Clare O'Farrell

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3 October 2016

Foucault on the Arts and Letters – Exclusive 30% pre-order discount

Rowman & Littlefield International is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century edited by Catherine M. Soussloff. This book is a collection of new essays addressing Foucault’s thought and its impact on thinking about the visual arts, literature and aesthetic discourse in the 21st century.

As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault’s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society. This book offers insight into the role of the arts in Foucault’s thought as a means to better understanding his contribution to larger debates concerning contemporary existence. Visual culture, literary, film and performance studies have all engaged with Foucauldian theories, but a full examination of Foucault’s significance for aesthetic discourse has been lacking until now. This book argues that Foucault’s particular approach to philosophy as a way of thinking the self through the work of art provides significant grounds for rethinking his impact today. The volume moves across as many disciplinary boundaries as Foucault himself did, demonstrating the value of Foucault’s approach to aesthetic discourse for our understanding of how the arts and humanities reflect upon contemporary existence in a globalized society.

“This collection demonstrates the continuing productivity of Foucault’s thinking for understanding a surprisingly wide range of the arts: literature, painting, photography, even dance and music. The essayists offer insightful commentaries on concepts such as archaeology, heterotopia, and the aesthetics of existence, while interpreting Foucault’s explorations on figures from Shakespeare to Beckett, from Bosch to Bacon, and many others.” – Gary Shapiro, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities-Philosophy, University of Richmond

“As transdisciplinary methods in the arts and sciences are ascending, Foucault emerges as a central thinker, again, because his oeuvre embodies knowledge that defies disciplinary boundaries. Foucault on the Arts and Letters comprises essays engaging a creative display of figures and concepts while enacting the very transdisciplinarity Foucault helped to craft. This volume should engender similar research well beyond Foucault alone.” – Michael Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte and President, Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation

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