Foucault News

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

Editor: “la critique, ce sera l’art de l’inservitude volontaire, celui de l’indocilité réfléchie. La critique aurait essentiellement pour fonction le désassujetiissement dans le jeu de ce qu’on pourrait appeler, d’un mot. la politique de la vérité” Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi, Vrin, 2015, p.39 inservitude dans le cadre …

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Paul Horton, School bullying and bare life: Challenging the state of exception EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, Volume: 51 Issue: 14, 2019, Pages: 1444-1453 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1557043 Despite a vast amount of research into school bullying and the widespread implementation of anti-bullying policies and programs, large numbers of students continue to report that they are routinely subjected to …

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Francisco Klauser, (2017) Surveillance and space, London: SAGE Publications Ltd The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, …

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de Bilbao Fabienne, « Le diagnostic comme symptôme », Cliniques méditerranéennes, 2019/2 (n° 100), p. 103-115. DOI : 10.3917/cm.100.0103 La maladie d’Alzheimer est une maladie organique : tel est le dogme positiviste actuellement dominant. Cependant, le manque de fiabilité du diagnostic et les échecs répétés à trouver des traitements efficaces incitent à remettre en question …

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Lucy Fischer, Cinemagritte. René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice, Wayne State University Press, 2019. Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898–1967) and the cinema—a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and …

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Zhao, W. ‘Observation’ as China’s civic education pedagogy and governance: an historical perspective and a dialogue with Michel Foucault, Discourse Volume 40, Issue 6, 2 November 2019, Pages 789-802 DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1404444 Abstract This paper examines China’s civic education discourses from a historical and cross-cultural perspective. It unpacks observation as a political–cultural–spatial pedagogy, underpinning Confucius’ educational …

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Lorenza Mezzapelle Making a case for research-based art, The Concordion, November 5, 2019 [Editor: Update 26 February 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine] The Empty S(h)elf is on display at Artexte, at 2 Ste-Catherine St. E, Suite 301, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, until Jan. 25, 2020. The gallery is open …

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Dominique Roux, Yohan Gicquel, (dir.) Michel Foucault et la consommation. Gouverner et séduire, Versus 2018 Si Michel Foucault est l’un des plus grands philosophes du XXe siècle, et aussi le plus cité au monde, en quoi sa pensée peut-elle éclairer notre compréhension de la consommation à laquelle il n’a apporté aucun éclairage direct ? Alors …

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Barker, C. How to tell the political truth: Foucault on new combinations of the basic modes of veridiction, Contemporary Political Theory Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2019, Pages 357-378 DOI: 10.1057/s41296-018-0253-0 Abstract This article pays close attention to Michel Foucault’s theory that political regimes are enlightened through courageous free speech. A Foucaultian enlightenment occurs …

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