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Critica e saperi assoggettati. Conference (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

4 March 2013

One-Day Conference

Critica e saperi assoggettati:
Uno sguardo foucaultiano sui movimenti attuali

Interventions by Giso Amendola, Sandro Chignola, Ottavio Marzocca, Sandro Mezzadra, Judith Revel, Gigi Roggero, Anna Simone, Martina Tazzioli, Adelino Zanini

Friday, March 8, 2013, 9.30 am
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali,
Strada Maggiore 45, aula Jemolo

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Programma

Mattina

ore 09.30 Sandre Mezzadra: Introduzione

ore 10.00 Judith Revel: Crisi, soggettivazione eapertura del tempo

ore 10.30 Gigi Roggero: titoLo da definire

ore 11.00 Discussione I pausa

ore 11.30 Adeline Zanini: L’ordine del discorso economico

ore 12.00 Ottavio Marzocca: Movimenti dell’ethos e cura del mondo

ore 12.30 Discussione

Pomeriggio

ore 14.30 Sandre Chignola: Il coraggio della verita

ore 15.00 Anna Simone: L’isterica e L’ermafrodita. I due volti della parresia neL femminismo contemporaneo

ore 15.30 Discussione I pausa

ore 16.00 Martina Tazzioli: Interruzioni di confinegration (in)crisis e condotte di non verita

ore 16.30 Giso Amendola: titolo da definire

ore
17.00
Discussione e conclusioni

www.materialifoucaultiani.org

Les intermittences du sujet. Écritures de soi et discontinu. Colloque (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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3 March 2013

Les intermittences du sujet. Écritures de soi et discontinu (1913-2013)
Evénement
Du 21 mars 2013 au 6 avril 2013, Créteil, Paris, Mulhouse

Colloque international

organisé par l’EA 4395 LIS – Université Paris-Est Créteil
EA 4400 Etudes de la modernité – Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
EA 4363 ILLE – Université de Haute-Alsace

Dates

21 – 22 mars 2013 Université Paris-Est Créteil
23 mars 2013 Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
4-6 avril 2013 Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse)

Jeudi 21 mars

UPEC – Salle des thèses – 13h30-18h00

16h25 – Lorenzini Daniele (UPEC/La Sapienza, Roma)
Expériences de l’écriture chez Michel Foucault, entre maîtrise de soi et de-subjectivation

The Foucault Society Reading Group (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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2 March 2013

The Foucault Society Reading Group:
Spring meetings begin Friday, March 8.

We invite you to join us as the Foucault Society’s reading group continues our discussion of Michel Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976. The group is multidisciplinary and open to academics and independent scholars across the NYC area. Our purpose is to develop a critical conversation which enriches our engagement with Foucault and provides a forum for participants to develop our individual research projects. New participants are welcome.

Reading Group: Spring 2013 Schedule

Friday, March 8: Lectures 5-6

Friday, March 29: Lectures 7-8

Friday, April 19: Lectures 9-10

Friday, May 10: Lecture 11

Time: 7:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Room 5489, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, NYC

For more information or to register, please email Kevin Jobe and Eric Daffron, Reading Group Coordinators, at foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com.

New Program Committee Forming:
We are accepting proposals for new programs. We are open to proposals for panel discussions, seminars, writing groups, reading groups, or workshops. Please contact us if you have a project or program idea or if you would like to take a leadership role on our program planning committee. Proposals will be reviewed by our executive committee. Email foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

Call for Volunteers:
Foucault Society programs are coordinated entirely by volunteers. We cannot do this without you. If you want to get involved, we have many opportunities. Click here to learn more and to download a Volunteer Application. Or email us to set up a time to talk.

Foucault Studies – February 2013

Clare O'Farrell

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1 March 2013

Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 15

A Special Issue on Foucault and Religion
guest edited by John McSweeney

Issue 15 also includes:

An interview with James Bernauer,

three original articles on the topics of parrhêsia, the US/Mexico border and the usefulness of Kant’s writings for Foucault’s genealogical efforts to free Western cultures from a scientia sexualis
eight book reviews
and a report from a workshop on Security as Dispositif

Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that provides a forum for scholarship engaging the intellectual legacy of Michel Foucault, interpreted in the broadest possible terms. We welcome submissions ranging from theoretical explications of Foucault’s work and texts to interdisciplinary engagements across various fields, to empirical studies of contemporary phenomena using Foucaultian approaches.

All articles are freely available as open access on our website.

Please visit our website to sign up for E-alerts to receive news of CFP’s and new issues.

Number 15: February 2013: Foucault and Religion

Table of Contents
Editorial
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg, Marius Gudmand-Høyer & Ditte Vilstrup Holm
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Special Issue on Foucault and Religion

Foucault and Religion – Guest Editors’ Introduction
John McSweeney

Suspicion and Love
Matthew Chrulew

Ambivalent Modernities: Foucault’s Iranian Writings Reconsidered
Corey McCall

Rupture and Transformation: Foucault’s Concept of Spirituality Reconsidered
Jeremy Carrette

Religion in the Web of Immanence: Foucault and Thinking Otherwise after the Death of God
John McSweeney
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Interviews

A Conversation with James Bernauer
Edward McGushin
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Articles

The Crossroads of Power: Michel Foucault and the US/Mexico Border Wall
Thomas Nail

Philosophical Parrêsia and Transpolitical Freedom
Ottavio Marzocca

Between Bodies and Pleasures: A Territory Without a Domain
Laura Hengehold

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Toolbox
Security as Dispositif: Michel Foucault in the Field of Security
Ricky Wichum

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Reviews

Anne Schwan & Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (London: Pluto Press, 2011)
Max Rosenkrantz

Yunus Tuncel, Toward a Genealogy of Spectacle: Understanding Contemporary Spectacular Experiences (Ålborg: EyeCorner Press, 2011)
Apple Zefelius Igrek

Timothy C. Campbell, Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Daniel Skinner

James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)
Craig Minogue

Herculine Barbin, Mes Souvenirs. Histoire d’Alexina/Abel B. (Paris: La cause des Livres, 2008)
Andrea Rossi

Antonio Negri, The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009)
Salvatore Cucchiara

Mari Ruti, The Summons of Love (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)
David Sigler

Laura Hengehold, The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault (University Park, Penn.; The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)
Alexander I. Stingl

The Chomsky Foucault Debate. Context and history (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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28 February 2013

Editor: Philippe Theophanidis on his blog Aphelis links to a complete recording on YouTube of the Foucault-Chomsky debate and provides detailed background on the history of the recording and the various versions and publications of the transcript.

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate On Human Nature, New York: The New Press, 2006, pp. 57-58. Content of the transcript differs from the actual recording.

The video displayed […] is a complete 1 hour 11 minutes video recording of the original television program titled “Menselijke Natuur En Ideale Maatschappij” (“Human Nature and Ideal Society”). It took place in November 1971 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in Nederland, as part of the “International Philosophers Project”. It was recorded and broadcast by the Dutch National Television. The video includes opening credits, an introduction by Prof. L. W. Nauta, the entrance of Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, the debate itself moderated by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, a period of discussion with the audience and end credits. It was uploaded by user withDefiance on Feb. 25, 2013. [UPDATE–May 3, 2013] A “Proper Subtitles” version with English subtitles for the Dutch and French parts was completed on May 3, 2013. The video was also edited to adjust its actual running time (i.e. to get rid of the 14 minutes of black at the end of it). The video embedded above was updated accordingly.

It’s important to stress out that this is a complete recording of the television program and not of the debate itself. On the television program, the debate was interrupted by Prof. L. W. Nauta for commentary and parts were edited out. Therefor, there are large sections of the available transcript (which was published by Fons Elders in 1974) that are not included in the complete video recording of the television program.

Michel Foucault, Lectures on the Will to Know (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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27 February 2013

Michel Foucault, Lectures on the Will to Know. Edited by Daniel Defert. Translated by Graham Burchell. Series: Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France. Palgrave Macmillan.

Description
This volume gives us the transcription of the first of Michel Foucault’s annual courses at the Collège de France. Its publication marks a milestone in Foucault’s reception and it will no longer be possible to read him in the same way as before.

In these lectures the reader will find the deep unity of Foucault’s project from Discipline and Punish (1975), dominated by the themes of power and the norm, to The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self (1984), devoted to the ethics of subjectivity.

Lectures on the Will to Know remind us that Michel Foucault’s work only ever had one object: truth. Discipline and Punish completed an investigation of the role of juridical forms in the formation of truth-telling, the preparatory groundwork for which is found here in these lectures. Truth arises in conflicts, in rival claims for which the rituals of judicial judgment provide the possibility of deciding between who is right and who is wrong.

At the heart of ancient Greece there is a succession of different and opposing juridical forms and ways of dividing true and false into which the disputes between sophists and philosophers are soon inserted. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles stages the peculiar force of forms of telling the truth: they establish power just as they depose it. Against Freud, who will make Oedipus the drama of a shameful sexual desire, Michel Foucault shows that the tragedy articulates the relations between truth, power, and law. The history of truth is that of the tragedy.

Beyond the irenicism of Aristotle, who situated the will to truth in the desire for knowledge, Michel Foucault deepens the tragic vision of truth inaugurated by Nietzsche, who Foucault, in a secret dialogue with Deleuze, rescues from Heidegger’s reading.

After this course, who will dare speak of a skeptical Foucault?

With thanks to Matt Ball for sending on this info

Michel Foucault. Philosophe et militant. Tables rondes (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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26 February 2013

Michel Foucault. Philosophe et militant.

Spectacles, projections, conférences et tables rondes autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault à Poitiers du 25 au 28 mars 2013.

Présentation du programme :

Le TAP –Théâtre et auditorium de Poitiers – a conjugué ses forces avec celles de l’Université de Poitiers pour concevoir un riche et grand moment sur l’actualité de la pensée de Michel Foucault, notamment sur les notions d’enfermement et de prison. Comment rendre compte de l’actualité de la pensée du philosophe pictavien, alors que la société française vit un moment de crise aigüe à ce sujet ? La pensée de Michel Foucault est-elle toujours d’actualité ?

Ainsi trouvera-t-on dans ce programme des conférences, des tables rondes, des moments d’échanges avec le public, mais aussi – et c’est plus rare – un spectacle théâtral, une expérience musicale inédite, des films, des images télévisées, des publications et des « chantiers » de théâtre avec des étudiants. Une matinée sera aussi consacrée au rapport de Michel Foucault avec les arts.

Preuve de la vitalité de la pensée de Michel Foucault ? Certainement, mais aussi souhait d’ouvrir ses travaux au plus grand nombre, de les mettre à l’épreuve du réel, et de partager cette « fête de la pensée » avec bon nombre de personnalités et d’intellectuels ainsi qu’avec des partenaires du monde culturel et éducatif.

Le programme :

Le site du TAP

Coordination scientifique :

Organisé par le TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers et l’Université de Poitiers. Coordination des contenus scientifiques : Frédéric Chauvaud, Professeur d’histoire contemporaine, doyen de l’UFR Sciences Humaines et Arts, Michel Briand, Professeur de langue et littérature grecques, et Anne-Cécile Guilbard, Maître de conférences en littérature française, UFR lettres et langues. En partenariat avec le Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique, le Lieu Multiple et Jazz à Poitiers. Avec le concours de l’École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image, la Ville de Poitiers, l’Actualité Poitou-Charentes, la Belle Aventure et le Collectif F71.

Theresa Bourke, Mary Ryan, John Lidstone, Reclaiming professionalism for geography education: Defending our own territory (2012)

Clare O'Farrell

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25 February 2013

Theresa Bourke, Mary Ryan, John Lidstone, Reclaiming professionalism for geography education: Defending our own territory, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 28, Issue 7, October 2012, Pages 990–998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2012.05.005

Abstract
In a world where governments increasingly attempt to impose regulation on all professional activities, this paper advocates that professional standards for teachers be developed ‘by the profession for the profession’. Foucauldian archaeology is applied to two teacher standards documents recently published in Australia, one developed at national governmental level and the other by geography teachers through their professional associations. The excavation reveals that both students and geography teachers themselves are better served when teachers assert their own definition of professionalism and thus reclaim their professional territory, rather than being compliant with generic governmental agendas. Whilst we use Australia as an illustrative example, our findings are applicable to all other countries where governments attempt to impose external professional standards on the teaching profession.

Highlights

► We identify two types of professional standards for teachers.
► ‘Standards for teaching’ are developed by teachers for teachers.
► ‘Standards for teachers’ are imposed by the government.
► Standards documents from each of these groups are analysed.
► We found that teachers are best placed to assert their own form of professionalism.

Keywords
Foucauldian archaeology; Government; Professional standards; Teacher professionalism

Althusser, Foucault e la crisi del marxismo. Seminar (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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24 February 2013

Althusser, Foucault e la crisi del marxismo

Seminario a partire dai libri di Cristian Lo Iacono, Althusser in Italia. Saggio bibliografico (1959-2009), Milano, Mimesis, 2012 e di Fabio Raimondi, Il custode del vuoto. Contingenza e ideologia nel materialismo radicale di Louis Althusser, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2011

Introduce Manlio Iofrida

Parteciperanno Rudy Leonelli, Cristian Lo Iacono,
Diego Melegari, Fabio Raimondi, Valerio Romitelli.

28 FEBBRAIO 2013- ORE 15

Aula Mondolfo del Dipartimento di Fiosofia e Comunicazione
Sede di Via Zamboni 38 – Università di Bologna

Iniziativa valida per il conseguimento di crediti

come seminario sia del corso triennale di Filosofia

che della laurea magistrale in Scienze filosofiche

With thanks to Rudy Leonelli for this info

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Entretien sur le néolibéralisme, Foucault, la théorie politique, etc. (2013)

Clare O'Farrell

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23 February 2013

sur le néolibéralisme

Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie

Entretien sur le néolibéralisme, Michel Foucault, la théorie politique et la critique à propos de mon ouvrage La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault dans le cadre de l’émission l’Esprit de Réforme diffusée le 7 février sur Fréquence Protestante.

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