Foucault News

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

Discussions on Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (U of Minnesota Press, 2021), eds. Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn and trs. Perry Zurn and Erik Beranek. **Conversations in Atlantic theory: Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on Intolerable: . Podcast (January 2022) **Recorded Zoom Conversation with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on …

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Palti, E.J. Deleuze’s Foucault: on the possibility of an outside of knowledge/power (2021) History and Theory, 60 (4), pp. 20-35. DOI: 10.1111/hith.12234 Abstract During 1985 and 1986, Gilles Deleuze directed a seminar on Michel Foucault’s work at the University of Paris 8 at Vincennes/St. Denis. The course was divided into three parts, one dedicated to …

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Boyle, C. The (in)credible fiscal prize: A critical examination of the discourse of evidence in early childhood intervention (2021) Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood DOI: 10.1177/14639491211059164 Open access Abstract In playing with the concept of ‘credibility’, this article presents a critical examination of the discourse of evidence and the programming of upbringing in early intervention …

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Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy + Critique (2022) From 2022, the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Le foucaldien, published by the London-based Open Library of Humanities (OLH), and the affiliated foucaultblog appear under the new title GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE at genealogy-critique.net. The relaunch broadens the scope of the journal and its blog by including various approaches of historical-genealogical research and critical theory formation. GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE focuses …

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Kurtulus, G., İnci, M. “Merkantilizminin Disiplinci İktidar Projesi: Büyük Kapatilma [The Disciplinary Power Project Of French Mercantilism:The Great Confinement]”. Marmara University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences 43 (2021): 253-265 https://dx.doi.org/10.14780/muiibd.1052065 Open access An extended abstract in English can be found at the end of the paper. Öz Fransa, merkantilist doktrinin en önemli temsilcilerinden biriydi. …

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Nancy Luxon (Ed.) Archives of Infamy. Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton, University of Minnesota Press, 2019 What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand …

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PDF dépliant Michèle COHEN-HALIMI et Orazio IRRERA  Nietzsche, Foucault et la généalogie Université Paris 8 | Semestre 2 | mardi 12h15-15h (Les séances auront lieu sur Zoom et un lien sera transmis aux inscrits) Inscriptions / contacts : orazio.irrera02@univ-paris8.fr | m.cohenhalimi@gmail.com Séminaire organisé dans le cadre des activités pédagogiques et de recherche du Département de Philosophie …

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Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2021/2022 Continental Philosophy and Global Challenges Historical perspectives through practical engagements 09-11 June 2022 University of Warwick (UK) Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom Keynote Speakers: Prof. Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School) Dr Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich) TBA Call for Abstracts The aim of …

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Tobias, S. Critique as virtue: Buddhism, Foucault, and the ethics of critique (2021) Comparative and Continental Philosophy DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2021.2008846 Abstract This article examines Michel Foucault’s views concerning the ethical salience of critique and compares those views to the Buddhist Madhyamaka tradition. As a critic of the Enlightenment, Foucault’s approach to ethics vacillated between deconstructing moral …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Between 1967 and 1968. Louis Althusser and some of his students delivered a course at the ENS pitched as philosophy for scientists or non-philosophers. Some parts of the course have been published, including Alain Badiou’s Le concept du modèle in 1969 and Michel Fichant and Michel Pécheux, Sur L’histoire des…