Foucault News

Launch of The Funambulist Magazine (2015)

Clare O'Farrell

12 September 2015

Launch of The Funambulist Magazine by Léopold Lambert

Full PDF of announcement which includes links

Editor: Léopold Lambert has written fairly extensively on Foucault on his Funambulist blog. Many of these writings have been collected together as a book The Funambulist Pamphlets, vol.2 Foucault published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School.

Last week in New York City, I was thrilled to launch my new project, The Funambulist Magazine at the offices of e-flux. Helping me to introduce the magazine were three of its brilliant contributors, Sadia Shirazi, Olivia Ahn, and Minh-Ha T. Pham (see photos and recording of the event). This new 62-page publication will now be published once every two months in both digital and printed versions. This magazine continues alongside and in parallel with the open-access platforms that constitute the blog and podcast (Archipelago), which both aim at proposing a political discourse about design, territories and the city, as well as to create an international community of thinkers and creators around these questions since 2010.

Archives: The Intellectual and Politics. Foucault and the prison (1986)

Clare O'Farrell

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10 September 2015

Gilles Deleuze, The Intellectual and Politics. Foucault and the prison, Interview with Paul Rabinow and Keith Gandal, 25 May 1985, History of the Present, Spring 1986.

PDF of interview

Update: Foucault 13/13 series (2015)

Clare O'Farrell

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10 September 2015

Update on the 13/13 series of seminars from the website

The first seminar will take place on September 14, 2015.

Thank you very much for your interest in the series Foucault 13/13. The seminar has received an overwhelmingly good response, and we have more applications than available seats. Please accept our apologies. The application process is now officially closed.

However, we will be live streaming the seminars and also arranging to have an overflow room where you could watch the ongoing seminars by audio-visual projection. We are doing everything possible to make this seminar conversation accessible nonetheless.

First, we will be streaming the seminar live on the multimedia page of the new website of the Foucault 13/13 series here: Multimedia.

Second, we will also have an overflow room if you would like to watch the live stream with others in the overflow room while the seminar is going on, and we will try to promote discussion in the overflow room with the help of our teaching assistants. The overflow room will be located at the Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street, NY, and the exact room location will be posted on the blog page of the new website for Foucault 13/13. The location for the first seminar on September 14, 2015, will be Room 105 at the Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall.

Third, we will also be blogging on issues related to the seminar on the blog page of the new website for Foucault 13/13, and archiving prior recordings of the seminars. Our blog will be open and moderated for comments and you can find it here: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/foucault1313/ Please do join us in that conversation as well.

We do hope that this will make it possible for you to follow the seminar series closely, even though you will not be able to be in the seminar room in person. Again, we will do everything possible to make this seminar series accessible to you in overflow and virtually.

Thank you again for your interest.

Please do follow any news and developments regarding the Foucault 13/13 series either on the new website at Microsite or on our FB and/or Twitter pages.

Warm regards,

Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesus R. Velasco

– See more at: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/foucault1313/2015/09/03/applications-closed-but-live-stream-live/#sthash.diG1j4Df.dpuf

Why Do We Take Selfies? – 8-Bit Philosophy (2015)

Clare O'Farrell

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9 September 2015

Why Do We Take Selfies? – 8-Bit Philosophy
by Wisecrack

“Wisecrack is a Los Angeles-based media collective run by comedians, academics, filmmakers and artists who are endlessly curious about the world around us. Their channel explores great topics in ways that make them fun, engaging and unexpected.”

This video is essentially about Foucault’s work.

Jornadas Internacionales “Foucault y la cuestión del derecho” (2015)

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8 September 2015

Jornadas Internacionales “Foucault y la cuestión del derecho”

Faculty of Philosophy
Complutense University of Madrid
3-4 December 2015.

RESÚMENES

Márcio Alves: “Direito e análise da política em Foucault”
Silvia Castro García: “Breve arqueología del derecho a la última palabra”
Jorge Dávila: “Foucault y la problematización de la relación Ética – Derecho”
MarcoDíaz Marsá: “Sobre “Derecho y Ontología” en Foucault (1978-1984)”
Alain Gigandet
Jesús González Fisac: “El pueblo como sujeto de lo universal. De la gubernamentalidad a la Aufklärung”
Frédéric Gros
Juan Manuel Navarro Cordón
José Luis Pardo
Pausides Reyes
Nuria Sánchez Madrid: “El eclipse del “homo criticus” en la sociedad neoliberal: el diálogo de Wendy Brown con Michel Foucault”
Diogo Sardinha:”Une minorité qui ne fait pas loi. Le Kant des Lumières relu par Foucault”

David Brown, A Note on Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1981)

Clare O'Farrell

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7 September 2015

For the archives on the early history of the reception of Foucault’s work in English. This appears to be a roneotype with original illustrations.

David Brown, “A Note on Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish“ [1981] AltCrimJl 17; (1981) 4(1) Alternative Criminology Journal 116

With thanks to Brendon Murphy for this news

On Freddie Mercury’s birthday, 11 other HIV-related deaths (2015)

Clare O'Farrell

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7 September 2015

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Keri Blakinger, On Freddie Mercury’s birthday, 11 other HIV-related deaths, New York Daily News, September 5, 2015

Michel Foucault
An acclaimed French philosopher, Michel Foucault was best known for works like “Discipline and Punish” and “The History of Sexuality.”He died in 1984 of AIDS-related illness.

Michel Foucault va faire son entrée dans La Pléiade (2015)

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6 September 2015

Michel Foucault va faire son entrée dans La Pléiade,

L’œuvre du philosophe sera publiée le 5 novembre par la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, aux éditions Gallimard.

Le Monde.fr avec AFP | 20.07.2015 à 19h13

Michel Foucault va faire, bientôt, son entrée dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. C’est le 5 novembre, a confirmé au Monde Gallmard, que paraîtront les deux volumes regroupés sous le titre Œuvres dans la prestigieuse collection.

Figure de la philosophie des années 1960, historien, militant, titulaire d’une chaire au Collège de France, Michel Foucault est mort en 1984, à l’âge de 57 ans. Un peu plus de trente ans après sa mort, celui qui a écrit sur le pouvoir, la médecine ou la sexualité est célébré comme l’un des plus grands penseurs du XX^e siècle. Il est aussi l’un des auteurs de sciences humaines les plus cités au monde. L’an dernier, ses archives, classées « trésor national » par le gouvernement français, ont été rachetées par la Bibliothèque de France.

Auteur de plusieurs ouvrages à son sujet, c’est le philosophe Frédéric Gros qui dirige la publication des œuvres de Michel Foucault par la Pléiade. Histoire de la folie, Naissance de la clinique, Les Mots et les Choses, L’Archéologie du savoir, L’Ordre du discours, Surveiller et punir, les trois volumes de L’Histoire de la sexualité ainsi qu’une sélection d’articles vont ainsi être rassemblés.

« Devenir un classique, c’est bien sûr ambigu dans le cas de Foucault, a expliqué Frédéric Gros au magazine Télérama. Il ne construisait pas son œuvre dans la perspective d’être réuni un jour en un tout, clos sur lui-même. Sa vision de l’écriture était différente, davantage située dans la discontinuité, la rupture, et dans le fait de privilégier les infra-écritures, les marges littéraires. »

With thanks to Stuart Elden at Progressive Geographies for this news

David Banks, The Conservative Hacker – Cyborgology (2015)

Clare O'Farrell

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5 September 2015

David Banks, The Conservative Hacker – Cyborgology, August 26, 2015

“Lone Hacker in Warehouse” by Brian Klug

The hacker label is, as Foucault might say, a “dubious unity.” The single phrase can barely contain its constituent multitude. Even if every single person that self-identified as a hacker had a stable definition, the media would warp, expand, and misunderstand the definition to include all sorts of other identities, tactics, and personas. We cannot know what is in the hearts and minds of every person that feels an allegiance to the hacker brand but this past week’s Ashley Madison hack, where deeply private information was leaked supposedly in the name of consumer protection, forces a conversation about the politics of hacking. Are hackers fundamentally conservative if not in intention, then in deed?

Todd Meyers interviews Paul Rabinow (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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4 September 2015

Todd Meyers interviews Paul Rabinow
On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry: A Conversation with Paul Rabinow, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 4th, 2013

FOR DECADES Paul Rabinow has been producing scholarship that tightens the aperture around what it means to write and think with anthropology. His work is ambitious and broad-reaching, yet at its core there is a preoccupation with the details of practice as well as modes of inquiry and their ethical, conceptual, tangible dimensions — the stuff of “doing” fieldwork in the interpretive social sciences. Rabinow’s work operates through numerous valences: it is driven by personal intellectual commitments articulated in a distinct voice, yet remains fiercely collaborative; it tackles areas seemingly absent of human presence (the laboratory, the administrative life of private and public sector biosciences research, the domain of concepts), yet is densely populated by actors throughout — furthermore, he insists on asking what it is to be human and what it means to make claims on life and living today. Across numerous books, articles, and interventions, Rabinow’s efforts have remained inventive, unquiet, and experimental.

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irst with Bennett and then with Stavrianakis, we worked together almost every day. This practice is accelerative and challenging. Its advantage is a flow of ideas and narration not interrupted by longer and shorter stretches of time with bureaucracy, irritations of the rampant pettiness and gossip that abounds, et cetera. The price to be paid aside from being neglected and even scorned was the risk of insularity. We hoped to counter that tendency by strong dialogue with thinkers such as Foucault, Dewey, Weber, Seneca, and Aristotle. One can easily imagine how this strategy was received in certain quarters — even philosophers complaining about the use of German and Greek terms!