Kevin Hetherington, Foucault, the museum and the diagram, The Sociological Review Volume 59, Issue 3, Article first published online: 1 SEP 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02016.x Abstract Foucault’s work on the museum is partial and fragmentary but provides an interesting opportunity through which to explore issues of power, subjectivity and imagination. Following a discussion of Deleuze’s reading of …
Key thinkers – Michel Foucault. Interview with Professor Stephen Shapiro, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Update August 2025: This podcast is no longer available. Stephen Shapiro’s webpage can be found here English Literature student Alexander Freer and PPE student Danny Smith interview Professor Stephen Shapiro on Foucault’s major theories as part of a …
Jörg Spieker, Foucault and Hobbes on Politics, Security, and War, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political August 2011 vol. 36 no. 3 187-199 https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375411418596 Abstract This article engages and seeks to develop Michel Foucault’s account of the nexus between modern politics, security, and war. Focusing on his 1976 lecture series Society Must Be Defended, the article considers …
Michael Welch, Counterveillance: How Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons reversed the optics, Theoretical Criminology August 2011 vol. 15 no. 3 301-313 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610396651 Abstract The analysis herein considers the dynamics of panopticism by developing further the concept of counter-surveillance—or counterveillance—whereby prison officials rather than the prisoners become the target of unwanted attention. While …
Magritte and Foucault at Moderna Museet until 6 November Stockholm 1 September 2011 – 6 November 2011 “Moderna Museet Essä” is a new series of essays published by the Modern Museeum of Stockholm and Axl Books. The first essay was written by Lars O Ericsson : Magritte – Foucault. Om orden och tingen (Magritte-Foucault. Worlds …
Ben Golder, Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights, Social Legal Studies September 2011 vol. 20 no. 3, 2011 pp. 283-312 https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911404857 Abstract Michel Foucault is not often read as a theorist of human rights. On the one hand, there is a tendency to read his works of the mid-1970s — his celebrated …
Steven James Scott, Foucault’s Room A short film posted on Vimeo. Video is password protected Based on Michel Foucault’s stay in Warsaw in the late 50s, Foucault’s Room is a visual exploration of the post-war architecture of Warsaw over a text riddled with innuendos about erotic encounters under close scrutiny by the Communist authorities.
MICHEL FOUCAULT: A JUDICIALIZAÇÃO DA VIDA PRIMEIRO COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL MICHEL FOUCAULT : A JUDICIALIZAÇÃO DA VIDA Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, 5, 6 e 7 de outubro de 2011 Programação 5/10/2011 13:30 – MESA DE ABERTURA 14:00 – 16:30 JEAN FRANÇOIS BERT (Centre Michel Foucault, Institut Interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du Contemporain/FRANÇA). Sécurité, dangerosité, biopolitique : trois versants …
Sam Binkley, “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Social Practice and the Government of Neoliberal Interiority” Journal of the History of Human Sciences 24: 3 July 2011. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111412877 Abstract This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neoliberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it is argued that the constellations of power identified …
Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment The ideas of these two towering thinkers of the 20th century, Gramsci and Foucault, have all too often fallen into opposing camps. Radhakrishnan (1987) argues that Foucault’s understanding of the subject remains philosophical, while Gramsci’s continual interrogation of the relation between the individual and the group allows for concrete political …
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