CFP: Foucault and Marx. Ambivalences, Legacies and Future Struggles

The symposium aims to explore the tense relationship between Foucault and Marx and, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death in 2024, to put it into perspective with regard to Foucault’s intellectual legacy. Foucault is generally perceived as a harsh critic of Marxism, both in terms of its analytical possibilities and political dangers. This contrasts strongly not only with Foucault’s repeated emphasis on the centrality of Marx, but also with clear theoretical parallels. The subject of the symposium is therefore the question of how this ambivalence is to be understood, what it means for possible continuations of the Foucauldian project and to what extent the Foucault-Marx connection can be made fruitful for current and future questions.

Call for Papers

We are cordially inviting contributions to the symposium’s subject in the form of short talks (max. 20 mins). If you are interested, please send 1 PDF document including:

• an abstract (300–500 words)
• a short bio (max. 150 words)

To: [email protected]
Deadline: 30.06.2024
You can expect our response until the end of July

Topics include but are not limited to:

• History and Philosophy in/after Marx and Foucault
• Marxism, the New Left and Foucault
• Marxist theories of the state and Foucauldian analytics of power
• „Critique“ and/or „Power” in Marx and Foucault
• Foucault and his contemporaries (e.g. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze…)
• Foucault, Althusser and Althusserians
• Neoliberal and post-disciplinary subjectivations with Marx and Foucault
• Technofeudalism/Neofeudalism, Capitalism, and Neoliberalism
• Class, „race“, and gender in Marx and Foucault
• Feminist as well as post/de/anti-colonial readings of Marx and Foucault
• Foucault’s relation to the nouveaux philosophes and their critique of Marxism
• The particularity of French Marxism
• The PCF, its relation to Stalinism and Foucault
  
  

Organizers: Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Eva Jägle, Jonas Oßwald