Carolyn Hardin (2012). Finding the ‘Neo’ in Neoliberalism. Cultural Studies, 28(2), 199–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.748815 Abstract ‘Liberalism’ and ‘neoliberalism’ have become important shorthand terms in critical work that seeks to incorporate issues of economics into ideological and epochal analyses. Yet, these terms incorporate theoretical histories and refer to historical contexts so vast that they can seem ambiguous …
La folie et la fête. Michel Foucault (1963) Text from youtube Premier temps d’une série de cinq émissions intitulée « L’usage de la parole : les langages de la folie ». Pour l’interprétation des textes Michel Foucault est accompagné de Marguerite Cassan, Pierre Delpont, Abel Jacquin, Catherine Le Couey et de Claude Martin. Émission radio, …
Text from youtube (edited) From the European Graduate School. François Noudelmann, contemporary philosopher, discussing the relation between, philosophy, truth and lying. During the seminar he refers to Nietzsche, Foucault, Freud and Marx. Noudelmann talks also about optimism, resilience, hope and compares the statements of Hegel, Socrates and Platon by reading passages from Nietzsche’s Human, All …
Lester K. Spence, The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, 2013, pages 139-159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2012.763682 Abstract The neoliberal turn arguably has a powerful effect on black political ideas, black political practices, and black life in general; the nature of this effect has gone …
Seminar 10: Foucault and the critique of our present: reworking the Foucauldian tool-box, Goldsmiths College, University of London Michael Dillon – “Foucault: Political Spirituality and the Courage of Truth” Description: “What is this present which I belong to?”. This was the question asked by Foucault recalling Kant’s writing on the Enlightenment. This is also the …
Mark B. N. Hansen, Foucault and Media: A Missed Encounter?, South Atlantic Quarterly 2012 Volume 111, Number 3: 497-528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1596254 Abstract This essay stages an encounter between Michel Foucault’s work—especially his final thought concerning biopolitics, security, and population—and contemporary theorization of media’s experiential impact. The essay argues that the opportunity for such an encounter has …
Mathieu Potte‐Bonneville, Michel Foucault’s Bodies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 43, 1 (2012) 1-32 Extract The case seems settled: both in the field of the social sciences and in the discourses that accompany various contemporary political protests, Michel Foucault’s legacy is that of an eruption of bodies in at least two respects. Firstly, …
Robert Castel, cinquante ans de pugnacité sociologique Jean-François Laé 13 mars 2013 Site Mediapart Directeur d’études à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Robert Castel, né à Brest en 1933, est mort à Paris, mardi 12 mars, des suites d’un cancer. A juste distance entre Michel Foucault et Pierre Bourdieu, dont il était …
Update August 2025. For a retrospective in depth look at Google reader see: David Pierce, Who killed Google Reader?, The Verge, 30 June 2023 I have since moved on to Feedly Google reader, which is an rss reader or news aggregator, is one of the principal ways I gather news for Foucault News. A few …
Iliopoulos, J. Foucault’s notion of power and current psychiatric practice, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 48-58 https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2012.0006 Abstract Underlying Foucault’s accounts of asylums, hospitals, prisons, and schools was a continuing concern with power and knowledge. In the field of mental health, his preoccupation with power relations and the construction …
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