Michel Foucault

On Foucault's Discourse

by Karl Rogers

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Values & the Environment (Lancaster University, 1996)

The technologies of normalization and self

by Marco Gemignani

" Mission Civilisatrice": Fixing scientific evidence and other practices of neo-colonialism in social sciences

by Marco Gemignani

何乏筆（Fabian Heubel）。2008年。〈養生的生命政治：由于連之莊子研究談起〉。《中國文哲研究通訊》。18卷4期（72）。2008年12月。頁115-138。

by Fabian Heubel 何乏筆

Cómo hacer cosas con Foucault

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Perspectivas de Foucault

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Foucault y los historiadores: Análisis de una coexistencia intelectual

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

La tension infinie entre l'histoire et la raison: Foucault et Bourdieu

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Foucault y la historia social

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Foucault: la historia como crítica de la razón

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Biopolítica borbónica en Chile: el discurso antropológico sobre la ociosidad y el vagabundaje

by Patricio Lepe-Carrión

En editorial para ser publicado en el libro colectivo "Revisando el presente. Ensayos críticos desde el sur". CEAPEDI. Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentina.

Ranciere and the Disciplines v1

by Paul Bowman

First draft of a paper to be given in July 2012

L'image et l'archive. Archéologie du présent dans l'œuvre de Walter Benjamin et Michel Foucault

by Arianna Lodeserto

In this dissertation I will plot out two heterogeneous paths used in conducting the search for an “archeological... more In this dissertation I will plot out two heterogeneous paths used in conducting the search for an “archeological method” which would be able to place the present “in a critical position” and therefore question the modality in which history is written and its object constructed. My aim is to compare the conception of history exposed by Walter Benjamin in the Arcades Projects, in the theses On the Concept of History, and in other preparatory materials, with Michel Foucault’s archeo-genealogy, which I will explore making reference to Foucault’s shorter texts, interviews, and the Lectures at the Collège de France from the first phase of his carrier. While aware of the inevitable differences separating Benjamin’s and Foucault’s works, I suggest a possible convergence by limiting my comparison to some essential vectors of their conceptual frameworks, such as: the critique of the concept of origin, the role of discontinuity, the perspective of the “anonymous,” the fragmentation of history into singular images, and, eventually, the defense of the use of history as both fertile soil for philosophy as well as political strategy. History becomes the urgency of thought.

Post-existentialism: The Return of Existentialism?

by Christian Gilliam

Delivered to the 2012 ESRC South East Doctoral Training Centre

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This paper seeks to outline the premise of post-existentialism as a political philosophy. Existentialism is no longer... more This paper seeks to outline the premise of post-existentialism as a political philosophy. Existentialism is no longer the appreciated or respected philosophy it was in the mid-twentieth century. Changes and advances in the continental tradition, namely through the poststructuralist turn, have seemingly challenged and undermined the very foundations of existentialism. Similarly, the explosion of neuroscientific research in the last few decades has expropriated existentialism’s (phenomenological) account of consciousness. To talk of consciousness on these terms alone, in an age where our understanding of the nervous system has expanded to such an incredible degree, would seem to boarder on mysticism. Despite these challenges, existentialism still offers significant insights for our understanding of existence and political philosophy. As such, it must not be consigned to the scrapheap: enter post-existentialism.
Post-existentialism is viewed as a natural and logical progression for existentialism to take in view of these challenges, rejuvenating the philosophy and making it more relevant to today’s world. It is, in short, an attempt to force existentialism to take on its major critics- namely poststructuralism and cognitive science- through amalgamating them. Through examining such an amalgamation, post-existentialism will be shown to establish a political philosophy that avoids the pitfalls of the bourgeois humanist subject, while retaining some coherent sense of agency and ethics. It accepts consciousness and the Being of freedom, or Being as freedom and all that that entails (i.e. nothingness, dread, nausea, anguish, absurdity) while placing a greater role on the part of our facticity and discursive forms of power in occluding, or shaping, an understanding of our Being. Further, post-existentialism, in confronting advances in cognitive science on embodied consciousness and the unconscious/ implicit memory, provides a naturalist twist to its deliberations. What we are witnessing here, then, is not a radical departure from the core tenets of existentialism, but rather a radical restructuring of them. With this, post-existentialism will leads us to a new sort of political ethic.

"The 'Passion for the Outside': Foucault, Blanchot, and Exteriority"

by Kas Saghafi

IRWIN's Exhibition Was Ist Kunst and Foucault's Concept of Normalization

by Julie Niemi

This paper will examine Michel Foucault’s theory of power, specifically the notion of Normalization, in relation to... more This paper will examine Michel Foucault’s theory of power, specifically the notion of Normalization, in relation to the communist and post-communist era artist collective IRWIN. I will examine the work by Slovenian artist collective IRWIN and their concept of ‘retro-principle’ as an avenue to understand expressive freedom and transitioning notions of normality in the communist and the contemporary post-communist landscape. 

Like a Kid in a Candy Shop: Truth and Discourse in DeLillo’s White Noise

by Beau Wuthrich

During the Enlightenment Period of the 19th Century, Immanuel Kant rejected the belief in the ability of the human... more During the Enlightenment Period of the 19th Century, Immanuel Kant rejected the belief in the ability of the human mind to understand the universe in its entirety with his Critique of Pure Reason. Kant’s claim was that human perception was in fact a unity of manifolds which determinately synthesized experience, binding the human subject into time, space and causality and separating him or her from the ontological, or “real” world. For Kant, there were aspects of the universe entirely indecipherable to and unintelligible by human subjects. Kant termed this transcendental spirit numen. In his breakout novel, White Noise, Don DeLillo explores Kant’s numen and the role it plays in the postmodern age. The perceptions of DeLillo’s characters reflect a certain detachment from and estrangement to the world of the objective. In this era, it is the signs and symbols man has created for himself which transcend and override the ontological cosmos and in effect replace it, attaining a higher order of valence for the individual. For DeLillo’s protagonist, Jack Gladney, the antithesis of this world of Baudrillardian simulacra is the abyss, death, the intangible and unsignafiable state of human consciousness. Death is a state of non-existence, hostile and intangible to the psyche; in other words, the perfect historical expression of Kant’s undetected numen or, as allegorized by Jack’s son Heinrich via scientific narrative, the invisible “neutrinos [that] go right through the earth” (DeLillo, 34), imperceptible “waves and radiation” (38). DeLillo’s novel gestures toward the authoritative systems and structures erected to barricade humanity against death: the abstract and discursive institutions Mark Conroy describes as the “master narratives of cultural transmission in Jack Gladney's universe: the familial, the civic, the humanist and the religious” (“From Tombstone to Tabloid.” 97), or, to use a more concrete example, the psychically-invested dams against death, the Pyramids of Giza or the Great Wall of China invested in by their dead erectors (DeLillo, 159). The rising question relates to the actual nature of truth and whether there truly is a Real-Real to go back to.

Dominant Vertebrates or The Bound Book which Binds Into Bondage: McLuhan’s Constellations and Nebulae in Resonant Acoustic Space

by Beau Wuthrich

Michel Foucault has said that power is “constructed and functions on the basis of particular powers, myriad of issues... more Michel Foucault has said that power is “constructed and functions on the basis of particular powers, myriad of issues and myriad of effects of power" (1980, 188). In other words, power is divined from multifarious institutions, practices and categories. To speak briefly, “Forms”. Macluhan states that "The Gutenberg Galaxy is intended to trace the ways in which the forms of experience and of mental outlook and expression have been modified, first by the phonetic alphabet and then by typographic printing." (1) The mosaic approach becomes the only relevant one, for in order to attain an auditory field beyond the phonetic alphabet and print, McLuhan must fragment the looking glass of print media, which values and enforces a theoretical, linear, individual approach. To do otherwise would be to sabotage his own project. The form of McLuhan’s book is, in a sense, its essence. Following this device, this essay will take a critical applicative approach rather than a reflective one, entering the auditory field and resonating with McLuhan’s text, as opposed to observing it from a unitary point of view.

« La régulation comme technique de gouvernement des conduites. Principes et paradoxes. »

by Claude-Olivier Doron

From  the workshop  « La régulation entre sciences de la vie et sciences du gouvernement », REHSEIS, Paris, 25 janvier 2008, dir. Emmanuel D’Hombres/ Claude-Olivier Doron, mai 2008, in Araben, revue en ligne

Analítica de lo moderno: Una introducción

by Jonathan Xavier Inda

Spanish language translation of the introduction to Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).