Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, is now published with University of Chicago Press.
When the book came out in French I provided a note of the original English-language sources. What this means is that the new volume is mainly of interest for the previously unpublished discussion, the notes and introduction.
I discuss the lectures in Foucault’s Last Decade.
This looks interesting – a day of discussions on Foucault at the EHESS in the light of the Pléiade collected edition.
Journée d’études à l’EHESS
« Relire le Foucault de la Pléiade »
6 janvier 2016
École des Hautes études en sciences sociales
amphithéâtre François-Furet
105 bd Raspail
75006 Paris
En novembre 2015, Michel Foucault fait son entrée à la Pléiade. La question que nous allons nous poser, dans cette journée d’étude, est la suivante : Est-il possible de discerner aujourd’hui une nouvelle lecture de Foucault grâce a cette édition Pléiade, les nouvelles notices, ou l’événement même de son entrée ? Est-ce que la publication des cours au Collège de France, l’accès aux nouvelles archives du Fonds Foucault à la BnF, ou d’autres développements récents, nous permettent de repenser les livres, la collection des œuvres publiées dans cette nouvelle édition Pléiade, ou, plus largement, « l’intervention Foucault » ? Pourrait-on discerner un nouveau Foucault ?
Avec Frédéric Gros, Arianna Sforzini, Daniele Lorenzini, François Delaporte, Daniel Defert, Jean-Francois Bert…
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Foucault Studies 20 is now published. It’s a very large issue of 371 pages, all available open access. There is a theme section on ‘Civil Society’, a number of other articles and reviews, and a review symposium on On Government of the Living.
There is also ‘The Uncollected Foucault‘, a bibliography I compiled of pieces that are not in Dits et écrits, but which are available in some form. As I say in the opening note:
While I have tried to be comprehensive, the nature of the task is such that there are doubtless other pieces that neither I, nor previous editors and bibliographers, have discovered. I have seen all of these pieces and verified the references.
Additions are welcome. Pieces in the bibliography which are available online are listed here, with links.
Online resources on the theme of Territory, Justice, and Rivers.
Papers delivered by participants at the ?Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers? Workshop (4-5 June 2015, UCC)
Collection of Cara Nine?s work
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The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey at the LSE, via the Reading Marx’s Capital blog.
Derek Gregory has shared further details of his Tanner lectures ‘Reach from the Sky‘, to be delivered in Cambridge on 13th January, with a discussion on 14th January.
Admission is free but you will need a ticket from: tannerbookings@clarehall.cam.ac.uk (Tel: 01223 761247)
Spatial Justice Collection – essays open access until end 2015. Thanks to dmf for the link.
Explore this year’s ACSP conference theme of ‘Justice in the City’ with the below article collection – over 60 free papers which explore the themes of spatial justice, urban equality and the ‘right to the city’.
Click on the below article titles and enjoy free access until the end of 2015.
In June 1982 Foucault gave a sequence of lectures in Toronto. At the end of June he gave a guest lecture at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, adapting one of the Toronto lectures for that audience. These lectures are being prepared for publication, and the editors would like to hear from people who attended, know someone who attended, or who have other information about the events.
There are transcripts of the lectures in archives in Berkeley and Caen, but these are incomplete and there is conflicting information about what, exactly, Foucault said there and what was said elsewhere when similar lectures were delivered. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you can help, please either comment here, or contact Clive Thompson directly.
CFP: Radicalism in Theory and Practice – Hong Kong, 6-8 December 2016:
Call for Papers. Posted on behalf of Wing-Shing Tang
For the 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG)
Radicalism in Theory and Practice
This is the eighth meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography. Its objective is to provide a forum for scholars from all parts of the world to discuss critically geographical issues of East Asia (and its related areas).
Like elsewhere, we have recently observed a proliferation of activism and social movements in East Asia. As the backdrop, one could not forget about the activism against the construction of the Narita airport, the student movement in Gwangju and the student demonstration outside Tiananmen Square in Beijing. More recent examples include the strike launched by dismissed temporary workers and labour unions of the supermarket chain owned by E-Land Group; hunger strikes of family members of the victims of Sewol Ferry disaster in Seoul; the Sunflower Protests in Taiwan; the protests against moral and national education in Hong Kong; the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong; and demonstrations outside the Japanese National Diet in response to the enactment of the 2015 legislation for Peace and Security in Japan.
The issue is that these activisms and social movements have seldom been meticulously documented and analysed. Even more serious is that in understanding these events, there is a tendency to draw on theories and concepts popular in the West. This is especially the case for more recent events such as the Sunflower Protests and the Umbrella Movement. These events are usually conceived as no different from the jasmine revolution in Tunisia or the lotus in Egypt: in this view, it is all about democratisation for late-coming countries to be modelled on their more advanced counterparts. According to Andy Merrifield, especially in his new books The Politics of Encounter and The New Urban Question, occupy movements across the world are the manifestation of the new urban question. People gather together to develop a new social contract by the politics of encounter. Deep in his formulation is the prevalence of capitalism and capital logics. Is this the case? Is East Asia another variegated capitalism?
We believe that the world consists of many inter-connected parts. Accordingly, activity and social movements in East Asia would have their emergence both rooted in the region and interrelated with the world. It is the objective of this conference to make sense of the theory and practice of these activism and social movements in East Asia. This would involve researchers from a broad range of disciplines and of practitioners and activists, joining hands in the conference. They could contribute by deciphering the contexts and processes of development leading to the emergence of activism and social movements in their specific region or country, interrogating them conceptually and addressing the possible policy implication of these events.
The objective of this conference is to understand the theme issue of activism and social movements, and other geographical issues. We are interested in the following papers:
- socio- and politico-economic developments leading to activism and social movements
- knowledge production breeding as well as deterring activism and social movements
- on activists, their mobilities and their networks
- on utopianisms
- articulations and spaces of capitalism in East Asia
- geo-politics of capitalism and socialism in East Asia
- political ecology of the region
- any other relevant alternative geographical topics
Language: English
Date: 6th – 8th December, 2016 (with a post-conference field trip to the Pearl River Delta region starting 9th December)
Venue: Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist UniversitySubmission of Abstracts
Abstracts of not more than 500 words should be sent to earcag@hkbu.edu.hk before 15th Februrary, 2016.
Organised Sessions
Those planning to organise a session please send the title and description of the session, and the papers in it, to earcag@hkbu.edu.hk by 15th February, 2016
Registration Fee
- Participants from the OECD member countries, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong (US$150 (faculty), US$70 (students))
- Participants elsewhere (US$70 (faculty), US$35 (students))
Accommodation
Participants can stay at the NTT Guest House, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Organising CommitteeAmirah Buang (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
Byung-doo Choi (Daegu University, South Korea)
Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Chu-joe Hsia (Nanjing University, China)
Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
Bae-gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Programme Committee
Wing-Shing Tang, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University (e-mail: earcag@hkbu.edu.hk)
