Category Archives: Conferences

Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry

A lecture by Foucault in 1982 at Université de Grenoble, on “Parrēsia” was first published in French in 2012 in the journal Anabases. Another lecture from this same trip, “Rêver de ses plaisirs”, was published in 1983, and is a variant of … Continue reading

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Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive, with a response from Judith Butler

Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive and his relation to Marx, with a response from Judith Butler. Audio files available here, via Multipliciudades. For his lecture “Foucault and Marx: A Disjunctive Synthesis?”, Étienne Balibar discusses connections and disjunctions between Michel Foucault … Continue reading

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Foucault audio and video recordings – minor updates to chronological list

I’ve now updated the list of Foucault audio and video recordings, including a recording of the first few lectures of L’hermeneutique du sujet from 1982. This recording then jumps to lectures from 1984. This list is part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ part … Continue reading

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Rethinking possibilism for an Anthropocenic geopolitics – cfp for RGS-IBG 2015

Philip Conway has put together a call for papers for a session or sessions on ‘Rethinking possibilism for an Anthropocenic geopolitics’ for the 2015 RGS-IBG conference. RGS-IBG Conference on ‘Geographies of the Anthropocene’, 1st – 4th September 2015, University of Exeter – full details … Continue reading

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Luce Irigaray Circle Conference: Topologies of Sexual Difference – Melbourne – 10-12 Dec 2014

Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2014 The Communication, Politics and Culture Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, with the support of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, will host an … Continue reading

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Foucault audio and video recordings – a chronological list with links

Last year I listed all the Foucault audio recordings I could find online. I’ve now updated the list, and reordered them chronologically. These are now all listed on this page (as part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ part of this site). There … Continue reading

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Neil Brenner, ‘Urban Governance – But at What Scale?’ – video from Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference

Neil Brenner, ‘Urban Governance – But at What Scale?’, Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference, Delhi (via Multipliciudades).

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Call for Papers: Power and Space in the Drone Age – Neuchâtel, 27-28 August 2015

Call for papers for an interesting conference coming up next year Call for Papers: Power and Space in the Drone Age Two-day international workshop, Institute of Geography, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland 27-28 August 2015 Organizers: Francisco Klauser and Silvana Pedrozo, Institute of … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 15

In the past few weeks I have continued working on Subjectivité et vérité and took a very full set of notes, far more than can be contained in this chapter. I gave a talk on this lecture course at Nottingham … Continue reading

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Audio recording of ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’ – New Developments in Theory lecture at the University of Basel, 2014

You can listen to the audio recording of my New Developments in Theory lecture at the University of Basel, ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’, here. The introduction is by Ridvan Askin. I should say that this is very similar to lectures previously … Continue reading

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