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: foucaultmarx40.philosophie@univie.ac.at
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