The October 2011 issue of History of the Human Sciences is a special issue entitled “Foucault Across the Disciplines.” The eight articles which compose the issue, along with guest editor Colin Koopman’s introduction,
…“demonstrate the enormous gain in critical potential that can be realized by taking up Foucault’s own posture as a cross-disciplinary or counter-disciplinary thinker. One of the signal
We’re very pleased to reintroduce the “Foreign Correspondents” section of Somatosphere. The aim of the section is to provide contributors and readers of Somatosphere with a forum for recent, important works that appear in languages other than English – as well as announcements about conferences, journal issues, and other related projects. We proudly present the section’s first installment, a review …
As noted in the excellent H-Madness blog, the most recent issue of History of the Human Sciences is guest edited by Scott Vrecko and devoted to “Neuroscience, Power and Culture,”—a set of issues that we often cover on Somatosphere. The contributors include a number of current and former members of LSE’s BIOS research center.
Here are the …
Foucault et al. from Paris to California and Back Again: The Creolisation of “French Theory”
In this call for papers for the 2010 AAA meetings in New Orleans (17-21 November) we seek contributions from individuals who not only draw on French theorists, but who examine the ways in which “French Theory” travels, circulates and is re-imagined. Further, we particularly welcome …
At Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory, Paul Rabinow has announced the posting of a number of lectures and other audio files on the Michel Foucault Audio Archive–hosted by the UC Berkeley Library.
The audio files include four year-long courses which Foucault gave during his tenure at the Collège de France (all of these are in French): “…