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Foucault for Architects new book and lecture (2013)

Posted in Books, Public lectures on 19 May 2013 | Leave a Comment »

architects Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Foucault for Architects, Routledge, May 2013

Publisher’s page

The author is also conducting an inaugural public lecture at 6 pm on the 24th of May 2013 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Faculty of Humanities to coincide with the publication of the book.
Pdf flyer for event

Description
From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts and aesthetics led to a renewed focus on the avant-garde.

Prepared by an architect, this book offers an excellent entry point into the remarkable work of Michel Foucault, and provides a focused introduction suitable for architects, urban designers, and students of architecture.

Foucault’s crucial juxtaposition of space, knowledge and power has unlocked novel spatial possibilities for thinking about design in architecture and urbanism. While the philosopher’s ultimate attention on the issues of body and sexuality has defined our understanding of the possibilities and limits of human condition and its relation to architecture.

The book concentrates on a number of historical and theoretical issues often addressed by Foucault that have been grouped under the themes of archaeology, enclosure, bodies, spatiality and aesthetics in order to examine and demonstrate their relevancy for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice.

Contents

Introduction Part 1: Positioning 1.1 Context 1.2 Resisting Boundaries 1.3 Architecture Unspoken

Part 2: Archaeology 2.1 Human Sciences, Knowledge and Architecture 2.2 Archaeology as Difference

Part 3: Enclosure 3.1 Madness 3.2 The Asylum 3.3 The Clinic 3.4 The Prison

Part 4: Bodies 4.1 The History of Sexuality 4.2 Sexuality, Knowledge and the Structure of Aesthetic Experience 4.3 Biopower 4.4 Bodies, Architecture and Cities

Part 5: Spatiality/Aesthetics 5.1 Spatiality and its Themes 5.2 Avant-Garde and the Language of Space 5.3 Deleuzian Century 5.4 Ad Finem

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Leo Bersani, Sex: A keywords lecture (2013)

Posted in Public lectures on 2 May 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Join Tate Liverpool and world-renowned literary theorist Leo Bersani for the second in a year-long series of FREE Keywords lectures in Liverpool. 

Thursday 9 May 2013, 19.00 – 20.00.
LEAF on Water Street, 25 Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 0RG.

Website

Keywords is a dynamic exhibition and lecture programme that looks at how changes in the meaning of words reflect cultural shifts in our society.  The programme is inspired by Raymond Williams’ Keywords, a seminal work in the study of the English language as well as the fields of Cultural Studies and Visual Culture.

In his lecture, Bersani will discuss the keyword sex, and the ‘place’ sex holds in our culture.  Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and the late French theorist Michel Foucault, Bersani will confront psychoanalysis with the imperatives of the body to arrive at a definition of a ‘soma-analysis’. On the evening there will be an opportunity for attendees to actively engage and share their thoughts with the guest speaker and exhibitions curators.

Leo Bersani is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley specialising in 19th and 20th century art and literature. His writings on sexuality – particularly gay sexualities – psychoanalysis and the visual arts have inspired generations of cultural theorists and activists.

Please note that this event takes place at LEAF on Water Street, 25 Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 0RG.

Lectures are free.  Please forward onto your students or colleagues who may also be interested in attending.

This event is related to the exhibition Keywords

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How not to be governed? Lecture at King's College

Posted in Public lectures, Seminars on 4 March 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Reblogged from Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:

Je donnerai, le samedi 9 mars 2013, une communication au King's College à Cambridge.

Elle s'intitulera : "How not to be governed? Michel Foucault, neoliberalism and politics"

March 9th, Keynes Hall, King's College. Cambridge. 2:oo pm.

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Talk by Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, author of La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique, Editions Fayard,

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A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot (2013)

Posted in Public lectures on 13 February 2013 | Leave a Comment »

A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot

Date: 21 February 2013, 6:00pm to
21 February 2013, 9:00pm
Location: Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London
N1C 4AA
Fee: Free

Further info
Audio from Backdoor Broadcasting Company

Lecture by Étienne Balibar (CRMEP).

A well-known essay published by Foucault in 1966 on the work of Maurice Blanchot, La pensée du dehors, was translated into English in two different ways: ‘The thought of the outside’, and ‘The thought from outside’. This indicates a deep ambiguity concerning its possible interpretations. Together with the earlier essay on Bataille (‘Preface to Transgression’), the essay forms the metaphysical counterpart to the early ‘archeological’ work, beginning with History of Madness and ending with The Order of Things, centered on the ‘anti-humanist’ doctrine of the elimination of the subject. It is widely supposed that, in his later work, when studying apparatuses of power-knowledge, and when outlining a history of regimes of subjectivation and truth, Foucault had entirely reversed this orientation. The lecture will discuss the enigmatic notion of the ‘outside’ and its relationship to transcendental philosophy, assess the importance of a dialogue with Blanchot in the formation of Foucault’s philosophy, and argue that, contrary to established wisdom, it never ceased to frame the critique of subjectivity in Foucault’s work.

With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this info

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How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault (2012)

Posted in Journal articles, Public lectures on 10 January 2013 | 1 Comment »

Paul Rabinow, How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault,The Pluralist, Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2012, pp. 25-37

further info

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

The problem reduced to its lowest terms is whether inquiry can develop in its own ongoing course the logical standards and forms to which further inquiry shall submit.
—John Dewey, Logic 13

Gilles Deleuze, in his book What Is Philosophy? asks: “What is the best way to follow the great philosophers? Is it to repeat what they said or to do what they did, that is, create concepts for problems that necessarily change?” (Deleuze and Guattari 28). I imagine few in this audience would disagree with that claim. The changing, historically situated, interplay of concepts and problems is a register that those inspired by the work of John Dewey can readily acknowledge as pertinent even if what Dewey meant by each of the terms and what Deleuze meant by them is clearly not the same thing.

Over the years, I have given my own mode of inquiry a number of different names including “the anthropology of reason” or “fieldwork in philosophy” or more recently “designing human practices.” In each case I was drawn to inquiring into situations of ethical, religious, and/or scientific problems as the object of my inquiry as well as attempting to formulate my own practice as itself having the objective of being ethically or scientifically remediative. Said another way, in each of my inquiries, what was at stake was understanding the “human thing”—anthropos—to quote Thucydides, the logos that was at issue for those under study—the objects of inquiry—as well as my own practice as inquirer. In a word, for me, anthropology has always been, literally but problematically, anthropos + logos as both object and objective of the practice of inquiry.

The work of John Dewey was significant from the outset, albeit mediated by the presentation of my teacher at the University of Chicago, Richard McKeon. Dewey was equally a touchstone for my doctoral advisor Clifford Geertz, who paid homage to Dewey even if he did not use his concepts explicitly. After a long encounter, both personal and conceptual, with Michel Foucault, the work of Dewey unexpectedly came to the fore for me. It was only recently as I tried to clarify my thoughts and orient to major new inquiries concerning the life sciences that I began to read extensively in Dewey’s works. I have found them to be concise, conceptually rich, and providing an unexpected resonance with many aspects of the inquiries I had been conducting and continue to conduct today. Let me explain.

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Catherine Malabou. Jacques Derrida’s Critique of Foucault and Agamben (2012)

Posted in Public lectures, Video and audio on 8 January 2013 | 1 Comment »

Text on youtube

Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about Jacques Derrida’s critique of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben in The Beast and The Sovereign. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses Heidegger’s critique of metaphysics, Foucault’s critique of sovereignty, the distinction between zoe and bios, the relationship between bestiality and human life, political life, the logic of sacrifice and poetry as a new discourse on life in relationship to Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger focusing on the ontology of time, biopolitics, Homo sacer, the materiality of life, vegetal life, death, deconstruction and the distinction between the biological and symbolic.

Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe.

With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

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Catherine Malabou. The Deconstruction of Biopolitics. 2012

Posted in Public lectures, Video and audio on 23 December 2012 | 2 Comments »

See earlier post for details as well as this additional lecture on biopolitics and sovereignty.

With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

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Catherine Malibou: Biopolitics as a form of sovereignty (2012)

Posted in Public lectures, Video and audio on 17 December 2012 | 1 Comment »

See also earlier post of a video of a lecture by Catherine Malabou which includes biographical and other relevant details.

With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

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Rencontre autour des livres récents de Didier Eribon (2012)

Posted in Public lectures, Roundtable, Seminars on 7 December 2012 | Leave a Comment »

foucault-eribon From Didier Eribon’s personal blog

La librairie Les Mots à la bouche
Le 14 décembre, à 19h,
6 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie,
Paris 4e

La librairie Les Mots à la bouche, organise une rencontre autour des mes livres récents, le vendredi 14 décembre à 19h.
Ce sera l’occasion à la fois de revenir sur l’édition de poche de “Retour à Reims”, parue en octobre 2010, sur la nouvelle édition de ma biographie de Michel Foucault, parue en février 2011, également dans la collection Champs-Flammarion et, bien sûr, de présenter la nouvelle édition de “Réflexions sur la question gay” qui paraît dans quelques jours (le 5 décembre, toujours en Champs-Flammarion).

Disappointingly this is taking place the day after I leave Paris. I would really liked to have attended!

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Catherine Malabou. A Critique of Foucault (2012)

Posted in Public lectures, Video and audio on 6 December 2012 | 6 Comments »

Text below posted on youtube . See also the European Graduate school site

Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about inconsistencies in Foucault’s critique of the symbolic. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses the unity of the symbolic and biological, a new theory of power outside the model of language, the genealogy of relations of force, the somatic in place of the symbolic, functionality as the materiality of bodies and a new notion of life in relationship to Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche and Immanuel Levinas focusing on sexuality, the vocabulary of war, sensation, corporeality, the living body, bare life, Homo sacer, animality, poetry, sovereignty and the absolute value of life. This is a public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe.

Catherine Malabou is a specialist of contemporary French and German philosophy, with a focus on Hegel and Heidegger. She is most famous for her concept of ontological “plasticity.” Her work also incorporates neuroscience and neuro-psychoanalysis. Malabou has published many works including Voyager avec Jacques Derrida – La Contre-allée (1999, English publication in 2004 entitled Counterpath Que faire de notre cerveau? (2004), (English publication in 2008 entitled What Should We Do with Our Brain?, La Plasticité au soir de l’écriture : Dialectique, destruction, deconstruction (2005), (English publication in 2009 entitled Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction), Changer de différence (2009), (English publication in 2011 entitled Changing differences). More recently, Catherine Malabou published a book in French with Judith Butler entitled Sois mon corps (2010). She also manages a philosophy book series for the French publisher Éditions Léo Scheer.

With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

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