Foucault behaving badly

Foucault and Heidegger are two philosophers in a new book called Philosophers behaving badly. (Good title, named after a TV show I think.)
Here’s a review in Philosophy Now.
Heidegger you’d think would get some coverage here and indeed he has long been a source of debate in terms of how much do you take into account [...]

How homeland security has infiltrated academia

Big article in The Nation on how homeland security has affected and dominated academia, not just in research, but also materially:
Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus. From Harvard to UCLA, the [...]

Conference: Foucault across the disciplines

Conference announcement:

Announcing ‘Foucault Across the Disciplines’
 
An interdisciplinary Foucault conference, to be held
on March 1-2, 2008 at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. Conference presenters include: Ian
Hacking, Paul Rabinow, Arnold Davidson (tentatively),
Hayden White, Martin Jay, Jana Sawicki, Amy Allen,
Mark Poster, David Hoy, and many others.
 
A complete list of speakers is available on our
conference webpage:
http://foucaultacrossthedisciplines.googlepages.com/foucault.html
 
This event will be [...]

Back to Moi, Pierre Rivière…

I’ve been hearing about this film for a little while. The director of the original Moi, Pierre Rivière film based on Foucault’s publication of the legal case, has revisited the original actors and made a documentary.
Five years ago, French documentarist Nicolas Philibert received global acclaim for Etre et Avoir, his gentle study of an infant [...]

Foucault Event: Gouverner les vivants: à partir de Michel Foucault

Michel-Foucault.com has added an interesting looking event if you’re near Lyon next month, organised by AFIC (Association Franco-Italienne pour la recherche sur la Philosophie Française Contemporaine) and Michel Sennelart.
Sennelart edits the College de France lectures, see here.
See this and other events here.

Gouvernement de soi et des autres published

Le gouvernement de soi et des autres (Volume 1) is supposedly published today in French.
These are the lectures from 1983.
Update: Now looks like January  24 (see listing at Seuil).
Le cours que Michel Foucault prononce en 1983 au Collège de France inaugure une recherche sur la notion de parrêsia. Ce faisant, Michel Foucault poursuit son travail [...]

Enabling the panopticon, Microsoft edition

Yikes:
Microsoft filed a patent for a system that incorporates sensors into a computer to monitor the health and mental state of its user. The system checks heart rate, breathing, body temperature, facial expressions and blood pressure via wireless sensors, with an aim to increase productivity and worker happiness. The system also includes supervisory controls to [...]

New issue of Foucault Studies

A new issue of Foucault Studies has been published (#5).
As well as articles, the issue contains interviews, review articles and plenty of book reviews (including a nice one of own our book, thanks!).

“What in the hell” series on Foucault

A short series on Foucault’s biopolitics has been posted at a blog called “What in the hell…”
What in the hell is the relationship between labor and biopower?
What in the hell is killing? (thanatopolitics, biopolitics)

University funding up–for now

As an employee of a state-assisted university system which receives appropriations from the state, it is heartening to see that a new study shows the next financial year will post funding increases of around 7.5% nationally. This is the largest such increase in a decade (good news for parents and students as it will take [...]