Foucault’s 1968 (2012)

The Foucault Society, NYC Bernard Gendron, “Foucault’s 1968″ Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:30-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY, USA Abstract: Foucault’s relation to May 1968 is crucial for understanding the transformation in his theory and practice in the years 1969-1974, leading to the publication of Discipline and Punish. This [...]

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L’Ecole mutuelle au-delà de Foucault (2012)

Julien Pallotta, L’Ecole mutuelle au-delà de Foucault, Editions EuroPhilosophie 2012, Bibliothèque de Philosophie sociale et Politique. ISSN 2110-5251 You can read it online here Résumé Ce travail, tout en partant des analyses de l’appareil scolaire dans Surveiller et punir, interroge la description que Foucault livre de l’école mutuelle comme ultime rationalisation disciplinaire de la « [...]

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Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates (2012)

Terry Flew, ‘Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates’, Thesis Eleven, February 2012 vol. 108 no. 1 44-65 Further information Abstract Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich [...]

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Beyond Foucault New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon (2012)

Anne Brunon-Ernst, Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon, London: Ashgate, March 2012 Publisher’s web page Pdf flyer Description In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In [...]

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La contagion des péchés (xie-xiiie siècle). Aux origines canoniques du biopouvoir (2011)

Arnaud Fossier, « La contagion des péchés (xie-xiiie siècle). Aux origines canoniques du biopouvoir », Tracés. Revue de Sciences humaines [En ligne], 21 | 2011, URL : http://traces.revues.org/5128 Aperçu du texte Le modèle contagionniste d’explication de certaines maladies physiologiques, mais aussi des mouvements collectifs et de la criminalité, a vu ses fondements théoriques consolidés au xixe siècle avec l’identification médicale [...]

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Foucault and Theology (2011)

Jonathan Tran, Foucault and Theology, Continuum, 2011 Publisher’s page Description Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault never seriously [...]

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A ‘new Foucault’ with lively implications – or ‘the crawfish advances sideways’ (2012)

Philo, C. (2012), A ‘new Foucault’ with lively implications – or ‘the crawfish advances sideways’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Abstract This paper argues that we may now speak of a ‘new Foucault’ with more to say to contemporary human geography than might at first be suspected. A number of recent publications – [...]

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Entretien inédit entre Michel Foucault et quatre militants de la LCR

Entretien inédit entre Michel Foucault et quatre militants de la LCR, membres de la rubrique culturelle du journal quotidien Rouge (juillet 1977) Pdf of interview Présentation Présentation Cet entretien a eu lieu dans les premiers jours du mois de juillet 1977. Animateurs de la rubrique culturelle du journal quotidien Rouge, nous avions le désir de [...]

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Foucault is doing the laundry – page 7

This is the seventh page from a forthcoming short graphic novel written by Lauren Kinney and drawn by by Matt MacFarland. I will be posting additional panels on Foucault News as they are produced. The authors will be looking for a publisher when the work is complete, so if you have any ideas on this [...]

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The teeth of time: Pierre Hadot on meaning and misunderstanding in the history of ideas (2011)

Force, Pierre (2011). “The teeth of time: Pierre Hadot on meaning and misunderstanding in the history of ideas”. History and theory, 50 (1), pp. 20-40. Abstract The French philosopher and intellectual historian Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is known primarily for his conception of philosophy as spiritual exercise, which was an essential reference for the later Foucault. [...]

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