Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Posselt, G. (2021). Self-Care and Truth-Telling: Rethinking Care with Foucault. Le Foucaldien, 7(1), 10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.107 Abstract Although the care of the self looms large in Michel Foucault’s later works, his analyses are largely neglected in current debates on care. This may be due to the fact that Foucault’s work has so far been read …

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J M Moore, Review: Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the College de France 1971–1972, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 254–256, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab044 Extract Between 1970 and his death in 1984 (with the exception of a sabbatical in 1977), Michel Foucault delivered an annual series of lectures at the …

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Museum Thresholds The Design and Media of Arrival Edited By Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley. Routledge 2020. Copyright year 2018. Editor: I came across this volume doing a search on Richard Rogers, one of the two architect behind the Georges Pompidou centre in Paris, (the other was Renzo Piano). Richard Rogers has just died. …

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Shahzada Rahim, Debunking the Sovereignty: From Foucault to Agamben, Modern Diplomacy, October 25, 2021 “Citing the end of Volume I of The History of Sexuality, Agamben notes that for Foucault, the “threshold of modernity” is reached when politics becomes bio-politics—when power exercises control not simply over the bodies of living beings, but, in fact, regulates, …

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Alain Brossat, Son cœur mis à nu – l’impossible biographie de Michel Foucault, Ici et Ailleurs, 11 août 2017 (Première publication : avril 2009) Il m’a fallu un peu de temps avant de déceler le piège que comportait l’invitation qui m’a été adressée par Stéphane Nadaud à venir parler ici autour d’un énoncé en apparence …

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The Telos Press Podcast: Linus Recht on Foucault, Plato, and the Ethics of the Self in the Internet Age By Telos Press, Tuesday, December 14, 2021 In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Linus Recht about his article “After Desire: Foucault’s Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos …

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Foucault Studies. Issue 31, December 2021 Open access Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Symposium: Ars Erotica Sexuality and/as Art, Power, and Reconciliation Preface to symposium on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica. Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love: Stefano Marino Ars Erotica and Sôphrosunê: Examining Shusterman’s Nietzsche Catherine Botha On the Interest in the …

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Interview podcast with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, editors of Intolerable. Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980), UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS 2021, New Books Network, Dec 20, 2021 Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, …

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