News and stories about Michel Foucault

somewhere in the east: Who is Michel Foucault ?

When I was in college, I studied French culture and philosophy.I was eager to learn Michel Foucault's thought.Because he was a kind of philosofic hero in Japan. Today, I am not so facsinated with his thought.Because his way of thinking ...

Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:25PM EST

Inverted Panoptic Surveillance « ICT4Accountability

In his book 'Discipline and Punish' (1977), one of the most influential theorizers of modern society, Michel Foucault, describes the panoptic prison as a metaphor for the power relations within modern society. The prison was originally ...

Posted 03/10/2010 at 12:49PM EST

Hipster Runoff Exegesis: 9 March 2010: "THE ALT REPORT opens 'TIP ...

Michel Foucault famously adopted the concept as metaphor for the carceral society, in which ideological discipline operates regardless of the presence of overseers or punishers. The presence of the observer is instead always assumed. ...

Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:21AM EST

Muntz Library Features Book Display for Women's History Month 2010 ...

“Hailed as “one of the most significant contributions yet made to feminist literature” by The New York Review of Books and praised by Michel Foucault as being “remarkable for its rediscovering of texts and also for its study of feelings ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:40PM EST

» A Lesson in (Public) Sex Ed from Aaron Sleazy: Rob's Review of ...

If a line exists between Tucker Max and Charles Bukowski, Penthouse Letters and Michel Foucault, exhibitionism and self-improvement, then Aaron Sleazy straddles it. And, as his book recounts, it's not the only thing Sleazy's straddling. ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:00PM EST

Michel Foucault Quotes

The soul is the prison of the body. Let us sin then, and sin to infinity. The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of.

Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:52AM EST

Madness and civilization - felix's posterous

Madness and civilization. In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World ... By Michel Foucault. Loading mentions Retweet ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:41AM EST

ICOPA History – Excerpt from “The Moving Target of Penal ...

In France, the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP) was founded in 1971 by Jean-Marie Domenach, Michel Foucault and Pierre Vidal-Naquet to provide prisoners with a vehicle 'to speak for themselves' inside and outside prisons to ...

Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:41PM EST

ICOPA History – Excerpt from “The Moving Target of Penal ...

In the last chapter of Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault (1977) discusses 'the carceral'. He describes a network of power relations and technologies that “formed first the immediate surroundings of the prison, then spread farther ...

Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:41PM EST

Is Penguin Trying to Rewrite History?

... Hell's Angels (Hunter S. Thompson), Random House, 1966; High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Gollancz, 1995; The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 (Michel Foucault), Gallimard, 1976; Holding the Man (Timothy Conigrave), McPhee Gribble, 1995 ...

Posted 03/08/2010 at 08:10AM EST

Kevin Immanuel Art Theory: Artist Description, Christoph- both ...

Paul Rabinow editor, Translated by Robert Hurley and Others, Michel Foucault: Ethics/ Subjectivity and Truth: Essential works of Foucault 1954- 1984 Volume I,: The New York Press, © 1984 USA, from the essay, Polemics, Politics, ...

Posted 03/08/2010 at 03:07AM EST

Jason Freudenrich: The Democrats Panopticon

The constant surveillance or the idea of an individual thinking he or she is under constant surveillance directly coincides with Michel Foucault's “Discipline and Punishment” when he speaks about Bentham's Panopticon. ...

Posted 03/08/2010 at 01:25AM EST

Philosophy, the talk on a cereal box - Sherman's Cowlick

The article at one point refers to a Michel Foucault. I got curious as if he was any relation to the French physicist. Not recalling the man's first name, I looked up Foucault's Pendulum on Wiki, what do I get but a 1988 novel by ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 11:48PM EST

Cultural Studies and Literature Blog: “Bare Life”, “Bio-politics ...

Michel Foucault states that “the ancient right to take life or let live was replaced by a power to foster life or disallow it to the point of death.”[10] Following Foucault's definition about modern and ancient forms of power, ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 10:49PM EST

Theory Discussion Group NUIM: From Foucault to Papadopoulos

The three theoretical shifts and their social situatedness will be illustrated through a rereading of some ideas from Lev S. Vygotsky's late theory, Michel Foucault's account of government and Jacques Ranciere's political philosophy. ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 10:27PM EST

Michel Foucault and Purity Balls

On March 4, we discussed the intersection of Michel Foucault and sexuality in society, specifically concerning purity balls. For further information on purity balls, I highly recommend Jessica Valenti's book, The Purity Myth, ...

Posted 03/06/2010 at 01:44AM EST

Michel Foucault and Purity Balls « of Heart and Mind

On March 4, we discussed the intersection of Michel Foucault and sexuality in society, specifically concerning purity balls. For further information on purity balls, I highly recommend Jessica Valenti's book, The Purity Myth, ...

Posted 03/06/2010 at 01:44AM EST

Critical Reflection 3: the notion of discourse

In Michel Foucault (pp.67-79). London: Routledge. Agence France Press (2010) Jesus was gay: Elton John. Agence-France Press. Retrieved February 21, 2010 from Google News website: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 07:17PM EST

Critical Reflection 3: the notion of discourse « Pennies & Panopticons

The Subject and Power. In H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (pp. 208-26). Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. Mills, S. (2003). Power/Knowledge. In Michel Foucault (pp.67-79). ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 07:17PM EST

Advances in the History of Psychology » Blog Archive » Special ...

Working on your self with a brain device can be seen as a contemporary form of Michel Foucault's 'technologies of the self'. Foucault described how since antiquity people had used techniques such as reading manuscripts, listening to ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 04:39PM EST

Blog About Politics Scandals » Research 4 The Internet Power ...

As is well known, Michel Foucault argued that power and knowledge are like two sides of the same coin. There are however many other approaches and research traditions that tackle the role of knowledge production in affecting and ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 10:16AM EST

Power/Knowledge and Blind Patriotism « Benevolence and Beyond

In S. Mill, Michel Foucault (pp.67-79). London: Routledge. Sperling, E. (2004). The Tibet-China conflict: History and polemics. Washington DC: East-west centre. Washington. Wang, Z. (2008). National humiliation, history education, ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 03:35AM EST

Alexandro Santana at at Besharat Gallery - artnet Magazine

His exhibition title lends a clue: "Haecceitia: Homage à Michel Foucault." Plumbing the catalogue essay, it becomes clear that Santana is seeking not decorative effect or personal expression, but rather is making a stab at painterly ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 01:29AM EST

Abstract Resistance @ The Walker Art Center

Anytime an event is organized around an idea by French philosopher/historian Michel Foucault, there's bound to be some confusion. Suppose, for instance, that you were... Anytime an event is organized around an idea by French ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 12:18AM EST

COURSE OUTLINE: San Francisco State University

Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality. Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (skim the book, read entries in your area of interest closely and pursue some of the ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 07:28PM EST

Christian Child Abuse: The Vatican's Nietzschean Moment

When Michel Foucault developed his influential theory of power he identified the Christian confessional as the template utilised by later forms of political rule. 'I must be good, or else' best describes the system of internalised ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 03:20PM EST

SpeEdChange: How Social Networking Liberates Teachers

From Michel Foucault I bring the idea that we best observe human action by watching what they actually do in a conceptual transaction space. That "space" - the "playing field" on which we operate, is shaped by the limitations we have ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 01:45PM EST

Call for papers - Power & Knowledge 2010 conference

As is well known, Michel Foucault argued that power and knowledge are like two sides of the same coin. There are however many other approaches and research traditions that tackle the role of knowledge production in affecting and ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 12:23PM EST

a withdrawn application (or why i want to be “an established ...

6.discipline and punish, michel foucault. admittedly, it is not his best work. my interest in the body and its role in theory is what drew me to this book. disciplinary practices and the discourse around them do more than just punish ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 08:07AM EST

It's Theory, of course it makes no sense

In “Discipline and Punish,” Michel Foucault describes the concept of “power,” and asserts that it is something that is “dispersed throughout society.” His conclusion maintains that “the citizens of Western democracies act as their own ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 04:56AM EST

Molly'sBlog

He was born in Romania and grew up in Israel, where he translated Michel Foucault and J.-F. Lyotard into Hebrew. He contributes regularly to the blog, "Jews Sans Frontieres" and is active in the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 04:08AM EST