Category Archives: Michel Foucault

It’s out! The Textbook & the Lecture is published

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Norm Friesen

Here’s a blog post about the book just posted by the publisher, Johns Hopkins U.P. I went to school at the dawn of the microcomputer. These were expensive, immobile boxes that only responded to coded commands. Today I hold a … Continue reading →

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Lecture & Textbook: Education in the Age of New Media

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Norm Friesen

Forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining … Continue reading →

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New Book: Media Transatlantic!

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Norm Friesen

I have a new book out as of the end of May. It’s published by Springer and titled Media Transatlantic: Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe. Here’s the blurb: This book reflects recent scholarly and theoretical … Continue reading →

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The story of the Textbook as a Foucauldian Genealogy

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Norm Friesen

This is a recording of a presentation I recently gave at the Katholieke University of Leuven in Belgium, thanks to an invitation by Jan Masschelein.

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Foucault on Self-Care as Self-Bildung

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Norm Friesen

Been reading Foucault’s Hermeneutics of the Subject, Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1981-1982. In this text, Foucault articulates further his notions of “care of the self” and “pastoral power” (about which I posted this item a couple … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Pastoral Power, Schooling and Subject Formation

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Norm Friesen

David Hamilton, a remarkable educational theorist and historian, has concluded the following about schooling; i.e., about education as secular, public project: “It is perhaps no exaggeration to say that, on an international scale, schooling was conceived by Christianity and raised … Continue reading →

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Foucault on the Lecture

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Norm Friesen

Just came across this excellent interview with Michel Foucault from Partisan Review way back in ’71. Foucault articulates a rather original position on the lecture as a pedagogical form. He defends it for being as at least “crudely” honest about the … Continue reading →

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