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Via Foucauldian Reflections comes news of some new work by Thomas Lemke, who is at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main. Lemke works on some of the issues surrounding genetics and reproduction from a biopolitical perspective.
His new paper is a discussion of the 78-79 lectures: “An indigestible meal? Foucault, governmentality and state theory” (Distinktion: [...]
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The Foucault Archives have now gone online:
http://www.michel-foucault-archives.org/
(via foucault-l)
The site is edited by:
Philippe Artières,
Jean-François Bert,
Daniel Defert,
Frédéric Gros,
Pierre Lascoumes,
Pascal Michon,
Mathieu Potte-Bonneville,
Judith Revel,
José Ruiz-Funes.
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It’s quite interesting how Ignatieff dismisses Foucault’s support for the Iranian revolution with just labelling him as radical and praises Jahanbegloo’s attempts to bring the liberal, pragmatic thinkers such as Rorty and Heller.
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A recurring theme these days is that the lines between the right and the left, when it comes to Iran, has become so [...]
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Interesting reflections on the latest YouTube phenomenon video of the Philippine prisoners practicing their “Thriller” performance (now viewed over 2.7 million times!).
Two minutes into the video, I got over my amazement and realized that in fact it all made sense, as far as Foucault goes. Thinking back over his theories of disciplinary society, it fit [...]
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Not Bored! (which hosts the famous Surveillance Camera Players, previously mentioned in this blog) has written an interesting history of the Situationist International and Guy Debord.
Exactly 50 years ago today — on 28 July 1957 — the Situationist International (SI) was founded in Cosio d’Arroscia, a small village in Italy. Is it not senseless to [...]
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“Did Foucault invent fisting?”
This was a question I was once asked by an anthropology student in our department. I quote it today because it’s symptomatic of the often legendary or rumor-laden mythology that sometimes surrounds Foucault’s private life, particularly when it comes to sex and homosexuality.
By way of commenting on the story that the University [...]
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I believe a new book is coming out from SUNY Press based on the Biopolitics and Racism issue of Radical Philosophy Review (Vol 7:1) which was reviewed in Foucault Studies #3 (pdf) and edited by E. Mendieta and J. Paris.
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Richard Lynch has updated his bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works.
This is the single most useful and accurate listing of all the shorter works (it is even more complete than Dits et Ecrits) and is absolutely essential for Foucault scholarship.
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The University of Göteborg has a resistance studies network.
We currently have a working group in Gothenburg which meets regularly and a steering group of five people based at School of Global Studies. An international advisory board is on the way being formed. We are looking for more active participants in the network and hope that [...]
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I’ve just heard that the British geographer Michael Watts was attacked and shot in Nigeria. He appears to be OK and even sent an email:-
“I am OK. But only just. I was visiting Ibiba [Don Pedro] when a bunch of thugs arrived – about 10-12 on bikes very heavily armed. I think it [...]
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