Foucault News

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

Foucault in the Panopticon How Michel Foucault’s encounters in Poland’s heavily policed gay community informed his ideas GEOFF SHULLENBERGER | Reason, FROM THE DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to assume the directorship of the Centre Français in Warsaw. Less than a year later, he abruptly left the …

Continue reading

Jean-Luc Caron, André Tubeuf, un récit brillant sur son Paris culturel des années 1950, Res Musica, 8 décembre 2021 Avoir vingt ans et commencer (récit). André Tubeuf. Actes Sud. Novembre 2021 Connu de tous les mélomanes pour l’élégance de son écriture, l’étendue de son érudition et son enthousiasme communicatif, André Tubeuf nous propose un récit …

Continue reading

Kathryn Hughes, Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – virtuosic portrait of a star surrealist, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021 Given the ubiquity of René Magritte’s images in our culture it is a shock to learn that no one was interested in the Belgian surrealist …

Continue reading

Lennard Davis, In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare, Critical Inquiry, Volume 47, Number S2, 26 June 2020 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/711458 Open access In regard to disability, the ableism that puts on a compassionate mask in milder times now reveals its brutal face. While laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act …

Continue reading

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Journal d’Amérique, La Règle du Jeu – Littérature, Philosophie, Politique, Art, novembre 2021 Présentant outre-Atlantique son film «Une autre idée du monde» («The Will to See»), Bernard-Henri Lévy confie ses impressions d’Amérique. Ici, aux États-Unis, mon livre et mon film s’intitulent The Will to See. J’aime cette tonalité nietzschéenne, ou foucaldienne, dans un …

Continue reading

Renata Cavalcanti Muniz,Fiorella Macchiavello Ferradas,Georgina M. Gomez,Lee J. Pegler, Covid-19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster, Disasters, 07 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528 Open access Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has been a massive disaster in Brazil, causing more than 350,000 deaths as of April 2021. Moreover, President Jair Bolsonaro suggested …

Continue reading

Kurtuluş, G. & İnci, M. (2021), “Kapitalizm Sahnesinde Yeni Bir Aktör: Sosyal Girişimler”, Fiscaoeconomia, 5(1), 21-37 https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.795353 Abstract With the termination of welfare state practices in many countries, the task of meeting the needs of the society was handed over to the initiative of neoliberal policies. On the other hand, those who argue that there …

Continue reading

Michele Spanò, Towards a juridical archaeology of primitive accumulation. A reading of Foucault’s Penal Theories and Institutions, Radical Philosophy, 2, 11, December 2021 Translated by Alberto Toscano Open access The virtual dimensions of a project The implicit diptych formed by the two successive courses delivered by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between 1971 …

Continue reading