Foucault News

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

Internet et libertés publiques : qu’est ce qui a changé depuis Snowden ? France Culture, 20/09/2019 Podcast Les révélations d’Edward Snowden ont-elles provoqué plus qu’une prise de conscience? Que nous disent-elles de l’utopie déchue d’internet? Félix Tréguer, co-fondateur de la Quadrature du net, nous en parle dans L’utopie déchue (Fayard, 2019). Alors qu’internet devait permettre …

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L’utopie déchue. Une contre-histoire d’Internet XVe-XXIe siècle, Félix Tréguer | Fayard, 2019 À travers une histoire croisée de l’État et des luttes politiques associées aux moyens de communication, Félix Tréguer montre pourquoi le projet émancipateur associé à l’Internet a été tenu en échec et comment les nouvelles technologies servent à un contrôle social toujours plus …

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Foucault Studies, Vol 1 No 27 (2019): Number 27, December 2019 The editors of Foucault Studies are pleased to publish this issue of Foucault Studies containing seven original articles and three book reviews. Among the themes highlighted in the seven original articles are: norms, normalization, normativity, law and rule; genealogy and the diagnosis of the …

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Machiel Karskens, Het regime van de bekentenissen. Foucaults Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 81, 3, 2019, 559-581 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.81.3.3287040 Article in Dutch. Title and abstract below in English The Regimen of the Confessions: Critical Review of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality 4: The Confessions of the Flesh” Abstract …

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Peter Halley’s Heterotopia II explored the relationship between painting, architecture, and image LEILAH STONE • December 24, 2019, The Architect’s Newspaper Peter Halley’s Heterotopia II, a candy-colored shrine to geometric abstraction closed on December 20 at Greene Naftali gallery in Chelsea (Manhattan). The exhibition, which embodied the relationship between painting and architectural space, brought visitors into a disorienting, hyperreal world collaged out of …

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Godrej, Farah. “The neoliberal yogi and the politics of yoga.” Political Theory 45, no. 6 (2017): 772-800. DOI: 10.1177/0090591716643604 Abstract Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of …

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Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos Foucault y el derecho. Núm. 7 (2019) Artículos Poder, libertad y derecho a partir del último Foucault: consideraciones sobre la noción de “gobierno de sí” Marco Díaz Marsá «Derechos del hombre/derechos humanos» versus «derechos de los gobernados»: un análisis de la producción de derechos en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault …

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Michel Foucault Audio Archive The most comprehensive collection to date of online audio recordings of lectures and courses by the renowned French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault. Held by Berkeley Library, University of California The most comprehensive collection to date of audio recorded lectures and courses by the renowned French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault. …

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Patrick G. Stefan, The Power of Resurrection. Foucault, Discipline, and Early Christian Resistance, Lexington Books / Fortress Academic, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 How did the early Christian movement grow so quickly, and did the idea of resurrection have anything to do with its growth? Patrick G. Stefan offers an answer to both of these questions …

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