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Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. Mark Poster was one of the early commentators on Foucault’s work with his 1984 book Foucault, Marxism and History
Images et fonctions du théâtre dans la philosophie française contemporaine
Colloque organisé par Dimitra Panopoulos et Flore Garcin-Marrou
CIEPFC (Centre International d’Étude de Philosophie Française Contemporaine) /LAPS (Laboratoire des Arts et Philosophies de la Scène)
19-20 octobre / 23-24 novembre 2012, 9h-18h30, 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Pour en savoir plus, Conference website
SUR MICHEL FOUCAULT
Samedi 20 octobre 2012
Modérateur : Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (ENS Lyon, directeur du CIPH)
14h : Collectif F 71 : L’acteur, metteur en scène comme « usager » des textes de Foucault.
14h30 : Bertrand Ogilvie (CIEPFC, Univ. Paris VIII) : Sur Michel Foucault.
15h : discussion
15h15 : pause
Dates à venir Collectif Foucault 71
Du 25 au 27 mars 2013, au TAP, Scène Nationale de Poitiers, Foucault 71
info et réservation
Notre Corps Utopique
En cours de production, un nouveau projet, Notre Corps Utopique à partir du texte de Michel Foucault, Le Corps Utopique
Contact Thérèse Coriou, 06 82 18 39 14, coriou.therese@wanadoo.fr
www.collectiff71.com
McKinlay, A.A , Carter, C.B, Pezet, E.C. Governmentality, power and organization (Editorial), Management and Organizational History, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 3-15
https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935911429414
Abstract
Michel Foucault has moved from being marginal to organization studies to perhaps the most important authority in critical management studies. Yet his methods, historiography and the theoretical value of his work remain obscure, contested or, even worse, simply taken for granted. Governmentality, Foucault’s term for how institutions are imagined, offers a way of understanding how specific forms of knowledge and power emerge, develop and decline. Governmentality brings Foucault very close to Max Weber’s concern with rationalization and the ways that individuals come to govern themselves. Governmentality looks at administrative powers and knowledges that shape our everyday lives. For Foucault, as for Weber, administrative power is not of secondary importance but essential to the ‘successes’ and ‘failures’ of disciplinary institutions and societies.
Author keywords
governmentality; Max Weber’s bureaucracy; Michel Foucault
The Foucault Society Reading Group, 2012-2013
Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976
Introductory Meeting:
Thursday, October 11
7:00-9:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409
New York, NY, USA
In this year-long discussion group, we will study Foucault’s 1975-76 lecture course alongside Johanna Oksala’s newly published, Foucault, Politics, and Violence (2012)
At our our introductory meeting this week we will discuss central themes and our plan for the semester. Our second meeting will be Thursday, October 25.
We will meet every two weeks at the Graduate Center throughout the 2012-2013 academic year.
Please join us!
Open to the public.
We recommend that participants have some familiarity with Foucault’s work.
Suggested donation: $10/meeting.
Registration: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com
For complete description, see our website.
Questions? Please contact
Kevin Jobe, Reading Group Director, at foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com.
About the Foucault Society:
The Foucault Society is an independent, nonprofit educational organization offering a variety of programs dedicated to the critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984). All of our events are open to the public. We welcome new participants who have an interest in Foucault’s work and its impact on diverse areas of inquiry, including critical social theory, philosophy, politics, history, culture, gender/sexuality studies, and the arts.
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Twitter: @foucaultsociety
E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com
Call for papers: Alternative Enlightenments
Submission deadline: Saturday, December 1
Conference dates:
Friday, April 26 2013 – Sunday, April 28 2013
Conference Venue:
Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas, Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
Details
From Kant’s seminal essay “What is Enlightenment?” through the manifold critical responses of the twentieth century, the ambiguity of a term designating both a paradigmatic approach to human thought or autonomy, and a specific historical period, remains. How distinct is the concept of Enlightenment from the era of European history long taken to have discovered or invented it? This symposium proposes an examination of Enlightenments in the plural, welcoming both revisionary accounts of the Age of Enlightenment and explorations of Enlightenment in other times and places.
With an eye to translating the idea of Enlightenment, scholars have traced its many national and regional varieties. Discussions of an Ionian or an Athenian Enlightenment, of movements of Enlightenment in the medieval caliphate or the Ottoman Empire, share the contemporary intellectual landscape with debates on the continuing relevance of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the current global order. We are interested in the way the term has been borrowed and translated, creating a constellation of “Enlightenments” bound together by family resemblances. Is there still a singular project of Enlightenment (i.e. the critique of received ideas and inherited values, in particular religious ones; the promotion of rational or empirical methods; the creation of cosmopolitan and secular spaces), or has the term broken out of its historical mold to designate a more fluid set of cultural projects and practices? Where do we stand today with regard to the Enlightenment? After all, the continuation of a politics and practice of Enlightenment may depend on the spatial and temporal translations we propose to explore. Such displacements give new life to the idea of Enlightenment, even as the term is contested, criticized and transformed.
Topics of interest include:
Ionian / Athenian Enlightenment
Secularism, materialism, the immanent frame
Literatures of Worldliness in East and West: Renaissance, Tanzimat, Arab and
Near Eastern Enlightenments
Orientalism and Occidentalism
Diplomacy, correspondence, the figure of the court philosopher
What is Enlightenment: Kant, Foucault and beyond
(The) Enlightenment in the Americas
The public and the private: cross-cultural studies of an Enlightenment distinction
Travel literature, satire, and utopian fiction
Nineteenth century national Enlightenments, nationalism vs. internationalism
Enlightenment and Empire
The rhetoric of Enlightenment in geopolitics, the claims of the West
Material culture, exchange, circulation, accumulation, dispersal
Enlightenment and its others: mysticism, hermeticism and the arcane
The metaphorics of Enlightenment: illumination, dawn, twilight and dusk
Where do we stand today with regard to (the) Enlightenment?
Critical theory / social and political practice
Submission of Abstracts
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to wcoker@bilkent.edu.tr by
December 1, 2012.
The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University is an
interdisciplinary humanities program focusing on Comparative Literature, Classics and Philosophy. We teach the university’s core courses in the humanities as well as the bi-yearly Bilkent undergraduate “honors seminars” and other elective courses in our respective fields of specialization. Our program began in 1999 as part of an initiative on the part of the university administration to craft a more global curriculum and to foster greater dialogue between cultures and disciplines. We are proud to host the Alternative Enlightenments Conference, 26-28 April 2013 in Ankara.
For more information or to ask questions, please contact us at wcoker@bilkent.edu.tr.
Peter Triantafillou, New Forms of Governing: A Foucauldian inspired analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, August 2012.
Description
By elaborating the conceptual framework and methodological guidelines suggested by Michel Foucault, Peter Triantafillou analyzes the ways in which public organizations over the last few decades have become the target of numerous interventions which, for better or for worse, have sought to improve their efficiency and quality. The author exposes how various political and social science theories were adopted in often unpredictable ways in the process of reforming the public sector. By focusing on Britain, France and Denmark, Triantafillou examines changes and developments in the governing of life, labour and learning, showing that across different political regimes, the development of particular forms of freedom played a crucial role in enabling these political interventions. This volume will be of interest to those scholars and students interested in using Foucault’s concepts and methodological principles to critically analyze political interventions.
Contents
Introduction
Purpose and Concepts
Methodological Challenges
Governing the Performance of Governments
Activating Government
Life: New Forms of Public Health
Labour: Employment and Activation
Learning: The Making of Competent and Entrepreneurial Populations
Conclusion
Author
PETER TRIANTIFILLOU is Associate Professor of Politics and Administration, Roskilde University, Denmark. His research deals with the exercise of power and freedom in public organizations and welfare policies. He has co-edited (with Eva Sørensen) The Politics of Self-Governance and (with Jacob Torfing) Interactive Policymaking, Metagovernance and Democracy.
“L’homme après sa mort, Kant après Foucault”
Special Issue of Rue Descartes
Rue Descartes 2012/3 (n° 75). 128 pages.
ISSN : 1144-0821
ISSN en ligne : 2102-5819.
Lien : http://www.cairn.info/revue-rue-descartes-2012-3.htm.
Sommaire
Horizons
De livres considérés à tort comme mineurs
Diogo Sardinha
Corpus
Michel Foucault, philosophe de la liberté ? Sur sa lecture de Kant dans l’Introduction à l’Anthropologie
Jörg Volbers
La thèse complémentaire dans la trajectoire de Foucault
Márcio Alves da Fonseca et Salma Tannus Muchail
L’idée de sensibilité transcendantale dans l’Introduction à l’Anthropologie de Kant
Marco Díaz Marsá
Différence entre l’anthropologie pragmatique et l’anthropologie métaphysique
Diogo Sardinha
Le grondement de la critique du sujet fondateur dans le réveil du sommeil anthropologique
Roberto Nigro
La présence de Descartes et de Kant dans l’œuvre de Foucault
Guilherme Castelo Branco
Parole
L’anthropologie philosophique et l’anthropologie historique en débat
Étienne Balibar, Gunter Gebauer, Roberto Nigro et Diogo Sardinha
Périphéries
Au sujet du terrain – subjectivation et ethnologie
Mathieu Potte-Bonneville
Comment penser le temps présent ? De l’ontologie de l’actualité à l’ontologie sans l’être
Gabriel Rockhill
Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 14
A Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory
guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki
Issue 14 also includes:
A previously unpublished interview with Michel Foucault from 1978
three original articles, eight book reviews and a response to an article previously published in Foucault Studies
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.
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 14: September 2012: Foucault and Queer Theory
Table of Contents
Editorial
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg, Ditte Vilstrup Holm
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Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Shannon Winnubst, Jana Sawicki
’Foucault’s Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’
Mark D. Jordan
Foucault and Sedgwick: The Repressive Hypothesis Revisited
Lynne Huffer
Empire and the Dispositif of Queerness
Robert Nichols
Queer Economies
Ladelle McWhorter
The Queer Thing about Neoliberal Pleasure: A Foucauldian Warning
Shannon Winnubst
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Interviews
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomonology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978
Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon, Paul Patton, Alain Beaulieu
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Articles
Neosocial Market Economy
Frieder Vogelmann
Confession, Voice and the Sensualization of Power: The Significance of Michel Foucault’s 1962 Encounter with Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lauri Siisiäinen
On Historicity and Transcendentality Again. Foucault’s Trajectory from Existential Psychiatry to Historical Epistemology
Elisabetta Basso
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Exchange
Discipline and Punish: Some Corrections to Boyle
James I. Porter
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Reviews
Jeffrey P. Bishop, The Anticipatory Corpse (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)
Harold Braswell
Thomas Lemke, Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction (New York: New York University Press, 2011)
Michael Lait
Jose Luis Moreno Pestaña, En Devenant Foucault: Sociogenèse d’un grand philosophe (Bellecombe-en-Bauges: Éditions du Croquant, 2006) & Convirtiéndose en Foucault: Sociogénesis de un Filósofo (Mataró: Montesinos, 2006)
Michael Maidan
Jonathan Tran, Foucault and Theology (London & New York: T & T Clark, 2011)
John McSweeney
François Dosse, Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari: Biographie croisée (Paris: Éditions la Découverte, 2007), translated as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
Thomas Nail
Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
Volha Piotukh
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (New York: Other Press, 2010)
Joel Alden Schlosser
Arnold I. Davidson, Frédéric Gros (eds.), Foucault, Wittgenstein: de possibles rencontres (Éditions Kimé, 2011)
Andrea Zaccardi
An audio version of the Roundtable “Foucault and the Courage of Truth” that took place at Goldsmiths College, January 13, 2012 is now available on the m/f website
Speakers were:
Professor Arnold I. Davidson (University of Chicago)
Judith Revel (Université Paris 1 Pathéon-Sorbonne)
Miguel De Beistegui (University of Warwick)
Orazio Irrera (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
Richard Jackson, Unknown knowns: The subjugated knowledge of terrorism studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 11-29
https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2012.659907
Abstract
This article employs Foucault’s concept of ‘subjugated knowledges’ to explore forms of knowledge which provide explanations of the nature, causes and solutions to terrorism and political violence, but which have been suppressed and silenced within the terrorism studies field. Subjugated knowledges include historical knowledges that are present within the functional and systemic ensemble of terrorism studies itself, but which have been masked by more dominant forms of knowledge, as well as knowledges outside of the field that have been disqualified and excluded as naïve, inferior or below the required level of scientificity. This article analyses some of the primary mechanisms and processes by which knowledge subjugation takes place in terrorism studies and the consequences of such suppressions and exclusions. It argues that the presence of subjugated knowledge means that the field exists in a highly unstable condition where certain forms of knowledge are simultaneously known and unknown and where eruptions of subjugated knowledge periodically destabilise the dominant discourse. Among others, the rise of critical terrorism studies represents such an eruption in the field. The article concludes by suggesting that one of the key future tasks of critical terrorism studies must be to liberate a range of potentially important subjugated knowledges and that Bourdieu’s concept of the ‘collective intellectual’ provides a potentially important model for undertaking this difficult task.
Author keywords
Foucault; peace studies; subjugated knowledge; terrorism studies
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