From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 17:42:34 EST
> RETHINKING FOUCAULT, RETHINKING POLITICAL ECONOMY > Two-Day Workshop, Thursday 17 - Friday 18 March 2005 > Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester, UK > > Workshop Theme > Foucault was clearly concerned with rethinking political economy. This > concern ranged from his direct engagement in The Order of Things with the > formation of the economic subject in relation to political economy, and > also involved him in all manner of debates throughout his life about how > one might understand the political economy. After his death these debates > continued as his work has been extended in a variety of different attempts > to rethink political economy both in general terms and also in terms of > the analysis of specific politico-economic micro-practices and related > technologies of subjectification. > > Foucault's work however, has not gone uncontested. Disagreements have > surrounded his work from the beginning, and in recent years the > publication of, for example, his lectures at the Collège de France in the > 1970s and his late writings and lectures on parrhesia open up > possibilities for further rethinking Foucault's work. At the same time, a > generation which has grown up with Foucault has proposed new readings that > extend Foucault beyond Foucault, taking his work into new territories and > inventing new concepts in so doing. > > In addition to Foucault's rethinking of political economy and efforts to > rethink Foucault's work, there is a third task of rethinking, relating to > the ways that Foucault and political economy have been connected. Here > are questions about the scholarship and politics of the first attempts to > think political economy with Foucault, which have more than once produced > statements that would certainly have invited Foucault's famous laugh. So > we propose to rethink these first thinkings of Foucault and political > economy, and to show how we can move beyond them. > > We will therefore gather for two days of discussions which seek to rethink > Foucault and to rethink political economy. Foucault once said in relation > to Deleuze: 'new thought is possible; thought is again possible'. We > propose to say the same of both Foucault and of political economy. New > thinking is possible. Thinking again is possible. > > Speakers > Confirmed speakers include: > Ruud Kaulingfreks, University of Humanistics, the Netherlands > Alan McKinlay, University of St Andrews, UK > Rolland Munro, Keele University, UK > Damian O'Doherty, University of Manchester, UK > Bent Meier Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark > Akseli Virtanen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland > > Attendance > Attendance will be strictly limited, and will close on 28 February 2005. > To book a place complete the registration form attached. > Url : https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/aut-op-sy/attachments/20050112/466df6ab/cp pefoucaultconferenceannouncement.doc
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