mercoledì 17 ottobre 2012
French Theory Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. all’assalto dell’America - François Cusset - Il Saggiatore, Ita, 11 ottobre 2012
Sapevate che Michel Foucault è stato negli Usa un’icona delle battaglie per i diritti civili, mentre Jacques Derrida diventava una celebrità accademica senza eguali? Che Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari hanno ispirato i precursori di Internet e i primi deejay di musica elettronica? E che la fantascienza americana, dal romanzo cyberpunk alla saga di Matrix, ha attinto a piene mani dal pensiero di Jean Baudrillard? Dopo aver incrociato a New York la controcultura dei mitici Seventies, le opere dei filosofi francesi del poststrutturalismo sono entrate nei dipartimenti di letteratura delle università americane e hanno sovvertito tutti i canoni del sapere, abbattendo il muro che separava cultura accademica e cultura pop. Riscoperte e reinterpretate come base teorica per le lotte identitarie di fine secolo, hanno poi fecondato il terreno da cui sono sbocciati i cultural studies, i gender studies e la critica multiculturalista. Decostruzionismo, biopotere, micropolitiche, si mulazione: French Theory ricostruisce la singolare evoluzione di questo pensiero iconoclasta, accolto con più successo oltreoceano che nella madrepatria. Un passaggio misconosciuto, eppure cruciale, dell’epoca contemporanea che ha mutato il paesaggio intellettuale, culturale e politico degli ultimi decenni. François Cusset, storico delle idee, è professore di Cultura americana all’Università di Nanterre. È autore di numerose pubblicazioni, fra cui Queer critics e À l’abri du déclin du monde.
Read more on Saggiatore website
lunedì 15 ottobre 2012
domenica 14 ottobre 2012
La giovinezza è un cane con l'insonnia - Recensione di Mathieu Lindon "Cosa vuol dire amare" @ El Bradipo website
Mathieu Lindon è figlio di Jerôme Lindon, fondatore delle Éditions de Minuit ed editore di nomi ingombranti quali Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jacques Derrida, Nathalie Sarraute e Gilles Deleuze. Mathieu cresce, solitario e annoiato come qualsiasi adolescente che varrà qualcosa da adulto, con il peso di questo privilegio. Ma appena mette fuori il naso da casa – e a Parigi vuol dire metterlo nel mondo – una catena di amicizie e amori lo porta in rue de Vaugirard, nell'appartamento di Michel Foucault. “Michel ha cambiato la vita di migliaia di persone, ma la mia – e so di cosa parlo – in modo particolare”, scrive Lindon in Cosa vuol dire amare (Barbès Editore, 2012, trad. Isabella Mattazzi). In Italia Lindon non è un autore molto conosciuto e non mi sento in colpa se l'ho ignorato fino a oggi; ma nel momento in cui ho saputo di questo libro, tanto emozionante quanto inclassificabile, sono stata divorata dall'impazienza di leggerlo. Posso infatti contarmi tra quelle migliaia di persone cambiate dall'incontro diretto o mediato con Foucault, sebbene la radicalità della trasformazione di Mathieu Lindon continui a essere al di sopra di tutte le altre: “Michel, l'ho amato, ma non certo come un figlio ama il proprio padre. Mi ha aiutato a disegnare la cornice di una relazione completamente originale in grado di sviluppare in seguito tutte le altre di cui il mio affetto avrebbe avuto bisogno. Mi ha liberato di ciò che non avevo scelto, di quanto era parte integrante e non integrata in me. […] Ero felice che mio padre fosse mio padre. Ero felice che Michel non lo fosse affatto”
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Society Must Be Defended - The Foucault Society Reading Group: Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Announcements
The Foucault Society Reading Group: Fall 2012-Spring 2013
”Society Must Be Defended”
First meetings:
Thursdays, October 11 & 257:00-9:30pmCUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, Room 5409
For our fall 2012 reading group, the Foucault Society will convene a re-reading of Foucault’s 1975-76 lecture course Society Must Be Defended, along with selections from Johanna Oksala’s newest book, Foucault, Politics, and Violence (Northwestern University Press, 2012).Thursdays, October 11 & 257:00-9:30pmCUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, Room 5409
The group will meet approximately every two weeks, throughout the academic year. For details, click here.
If you would like to participate, please contact Kevin Jobe, Reading Group Director: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com.
domenica 7 ottobre 2012
The Starry Dynamo The Machinery of Night Remixed - Sven Davisson - Satori Rebel Press, Usa, August 2012
The Starry Dynamo
The Machinery of Night Remixed
Sven Davisson
Spanning over fifteen years of work, The Starry Dynamo presents an eclectic evolution of material running the gamut from the erotic to the divine and the erotically divine to the divinely erotic. The work moves from charged and, at times, provocative fiction and prose-poetry to scholarly and thought-provoking essays on spirituality and philosophy.
The diverse topics include the history of the commune at Rajneeshpuram, Oregon and the Reagan administration’s action to suppress it; William S. Burroughs’ gnostic mythology of the Space Age; Michel Foucault and the epistemology of the Self; the androgynous occulture of the fin de siecle and more.
Praise for The Starry Dynamo
"The Starry Dynamo is a compelling and seductive collection. Sven Davisson’s work is erotic, haunting, spiritual and unafraid to take chances. A bold and riveting book."
-Emanuel Xavier editor of Bullets & Butterflies and author of Christlike
-Emanuel Xavier editor of Bullets & Butterflies and author of Christlike
"The bastard lovechild of William Burroughs and Aliester Crowley—or was he spawned of an orgy involving Rajneesh, Pan, Ginsberg, Foucault and a dozen or so of Burroughs North African wildboys? Davisson’s vision is a rich distillation of subversive thought. Tribal, mythic, punk and anarchic, Davisson is a serious thinker with the spirit of a mischievous sprite."
—Trebor Healey
author of Sweet Son of Pan
"The most interesting and experimental piece, titled “Mutilations,” involves incest and child sexuality and abuse. It’s written in a way that violates all traditional “unities,”: place, time, person. And, in doing so, poignantly and beautifully captures the feeling of being “mutilated” the author means to communicate in the story, whether fiction or non-fiction.
"Following is a series of essays about a variety of topics: the Indian guru Rajneesh and the rise and fall of his compound in Oregon, the French Symbolist poets, Oscar Wilde, the Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and several about the ideas of the French philosopher of sexuality Michael Foucault. I want to especially recommend this book for these specific chapters. I found I understood Foucault better while reading Sven Davisson than I have ever before (i.e. that at any given time and place in human history ideas about sex—and sexual orientation—are influenced by a vast array of factors of history, politics, culture, economics, etc. and so always have to be understood in context).
"This is an interesting and—to use Davisson’s own term, experimental—book that deserves to be read, written by an important character in the long term history of Gay consciousness."
—Toby Johnson in White Crane Journal
—Toby Johnson in White Crane Journal
Sven Davisson is the founding editor of Ashé! Journal of Experimental Spirituality. A rebel-publishing pioneer, Davisson edited the small, yet groundbreaking, zine mektoub from 1989-1995. During that time, he also received a degree in Queer Theory from Hampshire College and studied photography with Jerome Leibling (of the New York Photo League). In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Abrasax: Journal of Magick & Decadence, sneerzine, The New Aeon, mektoub, Lambda Book Report and Velvet Mafia as well as the collections I Do/I Don’t: Queers On Marriage and Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism.
venerdì 5 ottobre 2012
VALÉRIE NICOLET-ANDERSON - Constructing the Self: Thinking with Paul and Michel Foucault (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament) - Mohr Siebeck, Ger, October 2012
NICOLET-ANDERSON, VALÉRIE Constructing the Self. Thinking with Paul and Michel Foucault
2012. X, 288 pages. WUNT II 324
2012. X, 288 pages. WUNT II 324
Using some of the works of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) as a conversation partner, Valérie Nicolet-Anderson focuses on the manner in which Paul constructs the identity of his audience in his letter to the Romans. In particular, she analyzes how the notions of autonomy and self-agency function for both authors. In this dialogue, Valérie Nicolet-Anderson examines whether Paul can still play a relevant part in contemporary discussions around the notion of identity. The approach to Paul presents a narrative reading of Romans and displays an interdisciplinary hermeneutics which brings together New Testament exegesis and post-modern philosophy. The author constructs a dynamic picture of Paul as engaged in the shaping of the ethos of his communities through various strategies. She highlights Paul’s actuality, reflecting the current use of Paul by continental philosophers and invites more interdisciplinary reflection between exegesis and philosophy.
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martedì 2 ottobre 2012
Chimères N.77 - October 2012 - Chaosmose, penser avec Félix Guattari
Pascale Criton, Chaosmose, une lecture collective
Ce numéro de Chimères fait suite à une lecture collective du livre de Félix Guattari Chaosmose, écrit en 1992 (Galilée) qui s’est déroulée d’octobre 2011 à mai 2012, à Mains-d’Oeuvres (Saint-Ouen), puis à la Maison Populaire (Montreuil).
Chaosmose est une proposition pour voir et faire les choses autrement, une invitation à la « mise en acte » processuelle d’une pensée transversale. Comment réaliser un numéro de revue comme une expérience qui s’inscrive elle-même dans une processualité créative ? Penser avec Félix Guattari n’est pas « penser sur », ni « penser comme », mais produire des pensée-faire, pensée-dire, pensée-signes: plutôt qu’une analyse textuelle, il s’agissait de solliciter chacun dans ce que cette lecture lui donne à penser ou favorise dans ses pratiques, qu’elles soient politiques ou cliniques, philosophiques ou artistiques. Ainsi au cours de six séances de cette « lecture en acte », le mélange des signes s’est joint au chevauchement des temps et des espaces. Présents ou à distance, cliniciens, philosophes, artistes, psychanalystes, écrivains, sociologue intervenants se sont imbriqués dans une transversalité esthétique associant l’idée, le corps, l’écoute et le mouvement. Se sont côtoyés quelques uns de ceux, amis, analystes, artistes, philosophes, qui ont rencontré l’homme, partagé ses idées et en poursuivent les pistes. Mais aussi ceux plus jeunes, qui expérimentent aujourd’hui, à partir de ses traces, l’hétérogénèse sémiotique de la « chaosmose » et nous font découvrir l’œuvre littéraire, théâtrale et cinématogaphique de Guattari lui-même — œuvre largement méconnue et dont nous présentons ici quelques extraits.
lunedì 1 ottobre 2012
Audio Podcast by Bernard Harcourt – The Punitive Order: Free Markets, Neoliberalism, and Mass Incarceration in the United States @ The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 @ Birkbeck College, Uk, 3-4 June 2011
Bernard Harcourt – The Punitive Order: Free Markets, Neoliberalism, and Mass Incarceration in the United States
Event Date: 3 and 4 June 2011
Clore Lecture Theatre
Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck College
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck College
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
THE FOUCAULT EFFECT 1991-2011
A Conference at Birkbeck College, University of London Reflecting on 20 years of
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality
Bernard Harcourt - The Punitive Order: Free Markets, Neoliberalism, and Mass Incarceration in the United States
Much has been written about Michel Foucault’s critique of neoliberalism, both of neoliberalism in general and of the three different varieties of neoliberalism that he specifically discussed in his 1979 lectures (German Ordoliberalism, French Giscardian neoliberalism, and the Chicago School). In this essay, I explore Foucault’s critique of American neoliberalism specifically, and its relation to contem‐porary punitive practices in the United States.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/harcourt
Fabienne Brion, Bernard Harcourt: Le pouvoir de la vérité. Trois lectures de ‘Mal faire, dire vrai’, de Michel Foucault http://www.academieroyale.be/cgi?pag=1026&tab=146&rec=10279
Bernard is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, the Chair of the Political Science Department, and Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago. Professor Harcourt’s scholarship intersects social and political theory, the sociology of punishment, and penal law and procedure. His latest book is The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2011) and the co-editor with Fabienne Brion of Michel Foucault’s Mal faire, dire vrai (forthcoming in French at Presses Universitaires de Louvain and in English at the University of Chicago Press). He is also the author ofAgainst Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007),Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press 2005), andIllusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001). Harcourt is the coauthor of Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice (Thompson West 2007), the editor of Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America (New York University Press 2003), and the founder and editor of the journal Carceral Notebooks.
After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Charles S. Haight Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then worked as an attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, representing death row inmates. He continues to represent death row inmates pro bono, and has also served on human rights missions in South Africa and Guatemala.
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sabato 29 settembre 2012
Photographer Martine Franck Dies by David Walker @ PDN, 17 August 2012
Martine Franck: 1938 – 2012
Magnum photographer Martine Franck, who was best known for her portraits of artists and writers, died in Paris yesterday at the age of 74. The cause of death was cancer, according to a family friend. Franck became a full member of Magnum in 1983, and was married to renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who died in 2004.
Magnum would not directly confirm Franck's death. "The family has asked us not to give any information in order to preserve intimacy and organize the funeral in a discreet way," a spokesperson for Magnum's Paris office told PDN. He added that the agency would be able to issue a statement after the weekend.
Franck was born in Belgium in 1938, and grew up in the US and Britain. In college, she studied art history, but struggled with her thesis, according to an interview she gave to The New York Times in 2010, "I realized I had no particular talent for writing, though doing the research taught me to be methodical," she said. After college she took up photography, and began her career as an assistant to photographers Eliot Elisofon and Gjon Mili. She told the Times in 2010 that the photographer's life "suits my curiosity about people and human situations.”
Franck became a member of the Vu Photo Agency, and in 1972 she co-founded the Viva agency. In addition to her portrait work, she has undertaken a variety of documentary projects over the years.
She began a decades-long project photographing the Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. In 1985 she started a long collaboration with International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor, an NGO providing assistance to the poor and elderly. She also undertook documentary projects about Tibetan Buddhist children, and life on the island of Tory, off the coast of Ireland.
Since 2004 she has participated in Magnum group projects. She has published several books, including Martine Franck: One Day to the Next (Aperture, 2005); Martine Franck (Actes Sud, 2007), and Women/Femmes (Steidl, 2010).
Franck was co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.She told The New York Times in her 2010 interview that an important lesson she learned from Cartier-Bresson was to say 'no.' "He taught me to be selective, never to show photographs one did not want to see published," she said.
Photographer Elliott Erwitt, a member of Magnum who first met Franck when she was assisting Gjon Milli, tells PDN she was “remarkable, elegant and modest in her life and photography, a treasured friend.” He added, “Her wonderful work is our only consolation.”
Chris Boot, Executive Director Aperture Foundation, who worked for Magnum Photos from 1990-98, also remembers Franck as "a wonderful, elegant, generous woman, of great taste and culture, who always seemed to put other people’s interests before her own." He added, "She will be sorely missed by very many of us in the photo community, especially of course in Magnum."
Franck was born in Belgium in 1938, and grew up in the US and Britain. In college, she studied art history, but struggled with her thesis, according to an interview she gave to The New York Times in 2010, "I realized I had no particular talent for writing, though doing the research taught me to be methodical," she said. After college she took up photography, and began her career as an assistant to photographers Eliot Elisofon and Gjon Mili. She told the Times in 2010 that the photographer's life "suits my curiosity about people and human situations.”
Franck became a member of the Vu Photo Agency, and in 1972 she co-founded the Viva agency. In addition to her portrait work, she has undertaken a variety of documentary projects over the years.
She began a decades-long project photographing the Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. In 1985 she started a long collaboration with International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor, an NGO providing assistance to the poor and elderly. She also undertook documentary projects about Tibetan Buddhist children, and life on the island of Tory, off the coast of Ireland.
Since 2004 she has participated in Magnum group projects. She has published several books, including Martine Franck: One Day to the Next (Aperture, 2005); Martine Franck (Actes Sud, 2007), and Women/Femmes (Steidl, 2010).
Franck was co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.She told The New York Times in her 2010 interview that an important lesson she learned from Cartier-Bresson was to say 'no.' "He taught me to be selective, never to show photographs one did not want to see published," she said.
Photographer Elliott Erwitt, a member of Magnum who first met Franck when she was assisting Gjon Milli, tells PDN she was “remarkable, elegant and modest in her life and photography, a treasured friend.” He added, “Her wonderful work is our only consolation.”
Chris Boot, Executive Director Aperture Foundation, who worked for Magnum Photos from 1990-98, also remembers Franck as "a wonderful, elegant, generous woman, of great taste and culture, who always seemed to put other people’s interests before her own." He added, "She will be sorely missed by very many of us in the photo community, especially of course in Magnum."
Pic: Martine Franck, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson in Venice, Italy, 1972.
Martine Franck shot a famous photo feature of Foucault in 1978. Here are the pics:
See more on Magnum Photo website
Martine Franck shot a famous photo feature of Foucault in 1978. Here are the pics:
See more on Magnum Photo website
Foucault Studies - Issue 14 - September 2012
Foucault and Queer Theory
Foucault Studies 14
Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory
guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki
Table of Contents
Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg, Ditte Vilstrup Holm
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
Interviews
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomonology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault ; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978 Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon, Paul Patton, Alain Beaulieu
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
Exchange
Discipline and Punish : Some Corrections to Boyle James I. Porter
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
Read more on Foucault Studies website
guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki
Table of Contents
Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg, Ditte Vilstrup Holm
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
Interviews
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomonology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault ; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978 Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon, Paul Patton, Alain Beaulieu
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
Exchange
Discipline and Punish : Some Corrections to Boyle James I. Porter
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
Read more on Foucault Studies website
EDITORIAL
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven
Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg & Ditte Vilstrup Holm
In the volume, After Sex?, a meditation on the histories and possibilities of queer theory, editors Janet Halley and Andrew Parker rightly draw attention to Volumes I and II of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as crucial for all queer theory. But if these two volumes seeded this field, then it is Foucault’s contemplations on biopower and biopolitics, neoliberalism, governmen- tality that have continued to vitalize queer theory since then. Indeed, some of the most critical and generative interventions in queer theory insist not only on the centrality of sexuality as the “proper object” (after Judith Butler) but also trouble its parameters. This, we believe, is what is useful about Foucault Studies 14, a special issue on queer theory. The editors, Jana Sawicki (Williams College, USA) and Shannon Winnubst (Ohio State University, USA), offer our readers a rich selection of articles that think afresh the potentials of the History of Sexuality while engaging Foucault’s seminal influences more broadly through his work on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and other salient themes. It has been a pleasure to work with Jana Sawicki and Shannon Winnubst and we hope that readers will find the articles of interest and use.
Foucault Studies 14 also includes additional contributions, starting with the article, “Neosocial Market Economy” by Frieder Vogelmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), which addresses a methodological and a diagnostic question. Methodologically, it points out how Foucault’s lectures on governmentality—although often read as genealogical in character—rely on an “archeological dimension.” More precisely, Vogelmann demonstrates in a close reading how the genealogical focus on power struggles always already presupposes the archeological analysis of the formative systems of knowledge (savoir). In a second step this methodological frame is put to the test through the excavation of a uniquely contemporary form of govern- mental rationality: after classical liberalism, ordo-liberalism and neo-liberalism, neosocial market economy emerges. Drawing on recent developments in Germany, Vogelmann explores how a new form of the social has come to serve as a vehicle for denouncing the excessive self-conduct of individuals as championed by neo-liberalism. Neosocial market economy calls for a new ethically guided conduct that fuses the responsibility of the entrepreneurial subject for itself with responsibility for a network of communities. Read more on pdf
In the volume, After Sex?, a meditation on the histories and possibilities of queer theory, editors Janet Halley and Andrew Parker rightly draw attention to Volumes I and II of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as crucial for all queer theory. But if these two volumes seeded this field, then it is Foucault’s contemplations on biopower and biopolitics, neoliberalism, governmen- tality that have continued to vitalize queer theory since then. Indeed, some of the most critical and generative interventions in queer theory insist not only on the centrality of sexuality as the “proper object” (after Judith Butler) but also trouble its parameters. This, we believe, is what is useful about Foucault Studies 14, a special issue on queer theory. The editors, Jana Sawicki (Williams College, USA) and Shannon Winnubst (Ohio State University, USA), offer our readers a rich selection of articles that think afresh the potentials of the History of Sexuality while engaging Foucault’s seminal influences more broadly through his work on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and other salient themes. It has been a pleasure to work with Jana Sawicki and Shannon Winnubst and we hope that readers will find the articles of interest and use.
Foucault Studies 14 also includes additional contributions, starting with the article, “Neosocial Market Economy” by Frieder Vogelmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), which addresses a methodological and a diagnostic question. Methodologically, it points out how Foucault’s lectures on governmentality—although often read as genealogical in character—rely on an “archeological dimension.” More precisely, Vogelmann demonstrates in a close reading how the genealogical focus on power struggles always already presupposes the archeological analysis of the formative systems of knowledge (savoir). In a second step this methodological frame is put to the test through the excavation of a uniquely contemporary form of govern- mental rationality: after classical liberalism, ordo-liberalism and neo-liberalism, neosocial market economy emerges. Drawing on recent developments in Germany, Vogelmann explores how a new form of the social has come to serve as a vehicle for denouncing the excessive self-conduct of individuals as championed by neo-liberalism. Neosocial market economy calls for a new ethically guided conduct that fuses the responsibility of the entrepreneurial subject for itself with responsibility for a network of communities. Read more on pdf
venerdì 28 settembre 2012
Foucault & the Politics of Hearing - Lauri Siisiäinen - Routledge, Uk, July 2012
The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault’s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet another thinker representative of Western ocularcentricism. This innovative new work seeks to challenge this portrait by presenting an alternative view of Foucault as a thinker for whom the sound, voice, hearing, and listening, the auditory-sonorous, actually did matter. Illustrating how the auditory-sonorous relates most integrally to the most pertinent issues of Foucault - the intertwinement and confrontations of power, knowledge, and resistance - the book both presents novel readings of some of Foucault’s most widely read and commented-on works (such as Discipline and Punish, the first volume of History of Sexuality), and discusses the variety of his lectures, essays, and interviews, some of which have not been noted before. Moving beyond a commentary on Foucault, Siisiainen goes on to examine other philosophers and political thinkers (including Roland Barthes, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière) in this context in order to bring to the fore the potentials in Foucault’s work for the generation of a new perspective for the political genealogy of the sound, hearing, and listening, approaching the former as a key locus of contemporary political struggles. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in a range of areas including political theory, philosophy, and cultural studies.
1.From the Empire of the Gaze to Noisy Bodies: Empirical Regimes and the Archaeology of Sound 2. From Panoptic to Panacoustic/Panauditory 3. Pastoral Power, Confession and Sexuality: Dispositives of Hearing and the "Sensualization of Power" 4. The Problem of Noise and the Governmentality of Sound 5. Music and the Politics of Friendship (Foucault and Boulez) 6. Voices of Multitude, Voices of Crowd: Foucault’s Final Voice?
Lauri Siisiainen is a researcher in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
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martedì 18 settembre 2012
Du Gouvernement des vivants Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980) - Michel Foucault (Seuil, Fr, 25.10.2012)
Du Gouvernement des vivants
Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980)
Michel Foucault
Date de parution 25/10/2012
Hautes Etudes
320 pages
Du Gouvernement des vivants est un cours charnière. Prononcé au Collège de France au premier trimestre 1980, Michel Foucault y poursuit cette histoire des « régimes de vérité » qui traverse l’ensemble des cours du Collège de France, en y apportant une inflexion majeure : commencée dans le champ du juridique et du judiciaire, l’exploration s’était poursuivie dans le champ politique ? thématique des rapports pouvoir-savoir, puis de la gouvernementalité. Elle s’investit ici dans le champ des pratiques et des techniques de soi, domaine de l’éthique que Michel Foucault ne quittera plus.
« Comment se fait-il que dans la culture occidentale chrétienne, le gouvernement des hommes demande de la part de ceux qui sont dirigés en plus des actes d’obéissance et de soumission, des “actes de vérité” qui ont ceci de particulier que non seulement le sujet est requis de dire vrai, mais de dire vrai à propos de lui-même, de ses fautes, de ses désirs, de l’état de son âme ? » se demande Michel Foucault. Ce projet le conduit d’une relecture de l’Œdipe-roi de Sophocle à l’analyse des « actes de vérité » propres au christianisme primitif, à travers les pratiques du baptême, de la pénitence et de la direction de conscience. Michel Foucault choisit de s’intéresser aux actes par lesquels le croyant est conduit à manifester la vérité de ce qu’il est lui-même, en tant qu’être indéfiniment faillible. De l’expression publique de sa condition de pécheur, dans le rituel de la pénitence à la verbalisation minutieuse de ses pensées les plus intimes, dans l’examen de conscience, c’est l’organisation d’une économie pastorale centrée sur l’aveu que l’on voit se dessiner.
Du Gouvernement des vivants est la première des enquêtes, inédite, que Michel Foucault va mener dans le champ de l’éthique, autant dans les cours du Collège de France que dans les derniers volumes de l’Histoire de la sexualité.
« Hautes Études » est une collection des Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, des Éditions Gallimard et des Éditions du Seuil.
Présentation de l'éditeur (from Amazon.fr website)
Prenant ses distances avec la problématique du pouvoir-savoir, développée dans les années 1970, Michel Foucault se propose d’étudier ici la question du gouvernement par la vérité. Nouveau déplacement à l’intérieur du champ de la « gouvernementalité » ouvert en 1978, la question n’est plus seulement de retracer l’essor, dans la culture occidentale, d’un art de « conduire la conduite » des hommes, mais d’examiner la façon dont se constitue le sujet dans le jeu du pouvoir et de la vérité. Comment se noue le rapport du sujet à l’obligation de dire vrai sur lui-même ? Ce projet conduit Michel Foucault d’une relecture de l’Œdipe-roi de Sophocle à l’analyse des « actes de vérité » propres au christianisme primitif, à travers les pratiques du baptême, de la pénitence et de la direction de conscience. Foucault choisit de s’intéresser aux actes par lesquels le croyant est conduit à manifester la vérité de ce qu’il est lui-même, en tant qu’être indéfiniment faillible. De l’expression publique de sa condition de pécheur, dans le rituel de la pénitence à la verbalisation minutieuse de ses pensées les plus intimes, dans l’examen de conscience, c’est l’organisation d’une économie pastorale centrée sur l’aveu que l’on voit se dessiner. Ce cours, lié au projet de l’Histoire de la sexualité, ne constitue pas seulement une étape essentielle, jusqu’à présent méconnue, de l’ « histoire du sujet » poursuivie par Foucault jusqu’à ses derniers travaux ; il révèle un visage insolite du philosophe, dans l’attention rigoureuse qu’il porte aux écrits des premiers Pères de l’Église.
Afin de mieux évaluer le nouveau livre de Foucault, on insère le texte de la présentation de la conférence de Paris ( 21-22 Juin 2012) click here on http://colloquefoucault.wordpress.com
Parler du « dernier Foucault » est devenu depuis quelques temps à la mode. Mais à quoi correspond ce « dernier » Foucault ? La publication des cours au Collège de France des années 80 arrive à son terme. Le cours de 1981-82, L’herméneutique du sujet, avait été publié en 2001 ; mais c’est à partir de 2008 que l’on a assisté à une véritable « accumulation » de textes auparavant inédits, écrits et prononcés par Foucault pendant les cinq dernières années de sa vie. Le cours de 1982-83, Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, et celui de 1984, Le courage de la vérité, ont manifesté l’intérêt de Foucault pour la parrêsia, Socrate et les Cyniques anciens, intérêt que l’on connaissait déjà grâce aux séminaires de Berkeley de l’automne 1983 (parus en anglais en 2001, sous le titre deFearless Speech). Dans quelques mois, le cours de 1979-80, Du gouvernement des vivants, paraîtra à son tour – cours fondamental pour comprendre la trajectoire qui a mené Foucault de l’étude de la gouvernementalité néolibérale à l’étude des « régimes de vérité » caractéristiques du Christianisme des premiers siècles, puis de l’Antiquité classique et romaine. Le cours de 1980-81, Subjectivité et Vérité, sera également bientôt publié. D’ici 2013, par conséquent, l’ensemble de l’enseignement foucaldien des années 80 au Collège de France sera disponible, prêt à être exploré, interprété et utilisé par les chercheurs du monde entier.
Ce colloque se propose de relever le défi posé par cette accumulation de connaissances encore en cours. Mais loin de prétendre donner des « réponses » définitives, qui encadreraient le parcours foucaldien des années 80 dans des schémas préconstitués, il voudrait contribuer à l’ouverture d’un vaste champ de problématisations et de questionnements portant sur les particularités, les enjeux, les continuités et les discontinuités que l’on peut repérer dans la pensée du « dernier » Foucault. Il s’agira donc, en premier lieu, de réfléchir sur le « statut » de cette recherche foucaldienne qui s’est faite de manière orale, en se concrétisant assez peu dans les publications « officielles » du philosophe. Dans le sillage de cette réflexion, l’une des questions qu’il importe de prendre en compte est celle du rapport entre l’enseignement des cours et les textes publiés par Foucault lui-même pendant les années 80 – avant tout, bien sûr, les deux derniers volumes de l’Histoire de la sexualité, mais aussi certains articles particulièrement significatifs comme, par exemple, le célèbre essai sur les Lumières, où il est notamment question de l’ « ontologie critique de nous-mêmes »[1]. L’image du « dernier » Foucault comme d’un historien de la « sexualité » ancienne a déjà été mise en discussion ; mais quelle est exactement la relation qui lie ces deux séries de discours (enseignement oral/textes écrits) ? Dans quelle mesure les recherches que Foucault était en train de développer et d’exposer au Collège de France se retrouvent-elles dans les textes qu’il a publiés, et inversement ?
En second lieu, il s’agira d’interroger en tant que tel le développement de la pensée foucaldienne qui s’exprime dans les cours des années 80, et cela tant par rapport aux deux cours qui précèdent celui de 1979-80, que par rapport à un certain mouvement « circulaire » que l’on peut observer entre ce dernier et celui de 1984 – où Foucault parle à nouveau d’alèthurgie (un mot qu’il avait introduit au cours de la leçon du 9 janvier 1980), et où, à la fin de la dernière leçon, il déclare son intention de poursuivre, l’année à venir, « cette histoire des arts de vivre, de la philosophie comme forme de vie, de l’ascétisme dans son rapport à la vérité, justement, après la philosophie antique, dans le christianisme »[2]. Quelle image faut-il se faire, donc, de ces cours de Foucault des années 80 ? Quels sont les enjeux qui meuvent le philosophe tout au long de ces recherches ? Quelle genre de continuité est-il possible d’y mettre en lumière, et quels déplacements, quelles ruptures, quelles discontinuités ? Et, enfin, y avait-il un lien, et lequel, entre ces recherches apparemment « érudites » et l’actualité qui était celle de Foucault ? Et y en a-t-il un avec la nôtre ? Ce lien a-t-il à voir avec la volonté foucaldienne, témoignée clairement au Collège de France, d’explorer plusieurs modalités (anciennes) de l’insertion de l’éthique dans le politique ?
En troisième lieu, la question de l’actualité oblige à prendre en compte aussi les usages qui ont été et sont faits de la pensée du « dernier » Foucault, et en particulier de la pensée exprimée dans ses cours des années 80, au-delà du champ strictement « philosophique » et dans plusieurs champs disciplinaires différents (sociologie, ethnographie, histoire, etc.). En considérant l’importance toujours croissante de l’usage d’une série d’ « outils » foucaldiens dans les Cultural Studies, les Gender Studies et les Postcolonial Studies, ce colloque vise donc à s’interroger sur les usages (actuels et possibles), dans des champs divers, de la pensée foucaldienne des cours des années 80.
Afin de mieux évaluer le nouveau livre de Foucault, on insère le texte de la présentation de la conférence de Paris ( 21-22 Juin 2012) click here on http://colloquefoucault.wordpress.com
Colloque international
MICHEL FOUCAULT
DU GOUVERNEMENT DES VIVANTS AU COURAGE DE LA VÉRITÉ
Parler du « dernier Foucault » est devenu depuis quelques temps à la mode. Mais à quoi correspond ce « dernier » Foucault ? La publication des cours au Collège de France des années 80 arrive à son terme. Le cours de 1981-82, L’herméneutique du sujet, avait été publié en 2001 ; mais c’est à partir de 2008 que l’on a assisté à une véritable « accumulation » de textes auparavant inédits, écrits et prononcés par Foucault pendant les cinq dernières années de sa vie. Le cours de 1982-83, Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, et celui de 1984, Le courage de la vérité, ont manifesté l’intérêt de Foucault pour la parrêsia, Socrate et les Cyniques anciens, intérêt que l’on connaissait déjà grâce aux séminaires de Berkeley de l’automne 1983 (parus en anglais en 2001, sous le titre deFearless Speech). Dans quelques mois, le cours de 1979-80, Du gouvernement des vivants, paraîtra à son tour – cours fondamental pour comprendre la trajectoire qui a mené Foucault de l’étude de la gouvernementalité néolibérale à l’étude des « régimes de vérité » caractéristiques du Christianisme des premiers siècles, puis de l’Antiquité classique et romaine. Le cours de 1980-81, Subjectivité et Vérité, sera également bientôt publié. D’ici 2013, par conséquent, l’ensemble de l’enseignement foucaldien des années 80 au Collège de France sera disponible, prêt à être exploré, interprété et utilisé par les chercheurs du monde entier.
Ce colloque se propose de relever le défi posé par cette accumulation de connaissances encore en cours. Mais loin de prétendre donner des « réponses » définitives, qui encadreraient le parcours foucaldien des années 80 dans des schémas préconstitués, il voudrait contribuer à l’ouverture d’un vaste champ de problématisations et de questionnements portant sur les particularités, les enjeux, les continuités et les discontinuités que l’on peut repérer dans la pensée du « dernier » Foucault. Il s’agira donc, en premier lieu, de réfléchir sur le « statut » de cette recherche foucaldienne qui s’est faite de manière orale, en se concrétisant assez peu dans les publications « officielles » du philosophe. Dans le sillage de cette réflexion, l’une des questions qu’il importe de prendre en compte est celle du rapport entre l’enseignement des cours et les textes publiés par Foucault lui-même pendant les années 80 – avant tout, bien sûr, les deux derniers volumes de l’Histoire de la sexualité, mais aussi certains articles particulièrement significatifs comme, par exemple, le célèbre essai sur les Lumières, où il est notamment question de l’ « ontologie critique de nous-mêmes »[1]. L’image du « dernier » Foucault comme d’un historien de la « sexualité » ancienne a déjà été mise en discussion ; mais quelle est exactement la relation qui lie ces deux séries de discours (enseignement oral/textes écrits) ? Dans quelle mesure les recherches que Foucault était en train de développer et d’exposer au Collège de France se retrouvent-elles dans les textes qu’il a publiés, et inversement ?
En second lieu, il s’agira d’interroger en tant que tel le développement de la pensée foucaldienne qui s’exprime dans les cours des années 80, et cela tant par rapport aux deux cours qui précèdent celui de 1979-80, que par rapport à un certain mouvement « circulaire » que l’on peut observer entre ce dernier et celui de 1984 – où Foucault parle à nouveau d’alèthurgie (un mot qu’il avait introduit au cours de la leçon du 9 janvier 1980), et où, à la fin de la dernière leçon, il déclare son intention de poursuivre, l’année à venir, « cette histoire des arts de vivre, de la philosophie comme forme de vie, de l’ascétisme dans son rapport à la vérité, justement, après la philosophie antique, dans le christianisme »[2]. Quelle image faut-il se faire, donc, de ces cours de Foucault des années 80 ? Quels sont les enjeux qui meuvent le philosophe tout au long de ces recherches ? Quelle genre de continuité est-il possible d’y mettre en lumière, et quels déplacements, quelles ruptures, quelles discontinuités ? Et, enfin, y avait-il un lien, et lequel, entre ces recherches apparemment « érudites » et l’actualité qui était celle de Foucault ? Et y en a-t-il un avec la nôtre ? Ce lien a-t-il à voir avec la volonté foucaldienne, témoignée clairement au Collège de France, d’explorer plusieurs modalités (anciennes) de l’insertion de l’éthique dans le politique ?
En troisième lieu, la question de l’actualité oblige à prendre en compte aussi les usages qui ont été et sont faits de la pensée du « dernier » Foucault, et en particulier de la pensée exprimée dans ses cours des années 80, au-delà du champ strictement « philosophique » et dans plusieurs champs disciplinaires différents (sociologie, ethnographie, histoire, etc.). En considérant l’importance toujours croissante de l’usage d’une série d’ « outils » foucaldiens dans les Cultural Studies, les Gender Studies et les Postcolonial Studies, ce colloque vise donc à s’interroger sur les usages (actuels et possibles), dans des champs divers, de la pensée foucaldienne des cours des années 80.
mercoledì 5 settembre 2012
Power, Government and Strategy: Foucault’s Reconsideration of Power after 1976 (2012)
Power, Government and Strategy: Foucault’s Reconsideration of Power after 1976 (2012)
Tuesday, September 18, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Deakin University C2.05
221 Burwood Highway
Melbourne 3125
Australia
Deakin University C2.05
221 Burwood Highway
Melbourne 3125
Australia
Sponsor:
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute, the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Organiser
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
Details
Foucault’s lectures in 1976 open with the statement of an intellectual crisis. They proceed to a series of questions about the nature of power and the ways that he has conceived of it up to this point: what is power? How is it exercised? Is it ultimately a relation of force? Only some of these questions are answered in the course of these lectures. His answer to the overriding question, what is power?, is not forthcoming until after the discovery of governmentality in his 1978 lectures. It is not fully developed until after his lectures on liberal and neoliberal governmentality in 1979. This talk aims to retrace his answers to the questions in the light of the published lectures and to examine the consequences of these answers for his analysis of neoliberal governmentality.
Foucault’s lectures in 1976 open with the statement of an intellectual crisis. They proceed to a series of questions about the nature of power and the ways that he has conceived of it up to this point: what is power? How is it exercised? Is it ultimately a relation of force? Only some of these questions are answered in the course of these lectures. His answer to the overriding question, what is power?, is not forthcoming until after the discovery of governmentality in his 1978 lectures. It is not fully developed until after his lectures on liberal and neoliberal governmentality in 1979. This talk aims to retrace his answers to the questions in the light of the published lectures and to examine the consequences of these answers for his analysis of neoliberal governmentality.
Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published extensively on contemporary European philosophy and political philosophy. He is the author of, among other works, Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colinization, Politics (Stanford University Press, 2010) and Deleuze and the Political (Routledge, 2000).
Source: Philevents
From: http://foucaultnews.com
domenica 2 settembre 2012
Kant, Foucault - Che cos’è l’Illuminismo? (MImesis, 2012, nuova edizione)
Che cos’è l’Illuminismo? Secondo Foucault è questa la domanda ultima cui la filosofia tenta di rispondere da sempre. Ed è questa la domanda cui magistralmente ha risposto uno dei più grandi filosofi di tutti i tempi: Immanuel Kant. è attraverso le parole di Kant e l’analisi accurata di Foucault che il concetto di Illuminismo si scopre essere una stimolante interrogazione critica sul presente, sui limiti della conoscenza e sul loro possibile superamento.
Immanuel Kant (22 aprile 1724 Königsberg - 27 febbraio 1804 Königsberg) è stato il maggiore filosofo dell’illuminismo tedesco e di tutto il pensiero moderno. Di recente edizione Mimesis Prima introduzione alla Critica del Giudizio (Milano 2012) .
Michel Foucault (15 ottobre 1926 Poitiers - 26 giugno 1984 Parigi) è stato il grande protagonista del dibattito filosofico contemporaneo. Il confronto con il pensiero kantiano è una linea trasversale che percorre tutto il suo pensiero. Ricordiamo in proposito l’Antropologia di Kant che fu oggetto della sua tesi complementare, costituita dalla traduzione del testo kantiano, accompagnata da un lavoro di annotazione. Tra le sue opere pubblicate da Mimesis: Conversazioni (2008), Spazi Altri. I luoghi delle eterotopie (2010).
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