Foucault News

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

Stephane J Baele, Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe’s refugee crisis?, The Conversation, February 25, 2016 Translation into French Translation into Turkish In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health …

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Vol 7 (2016): Special issue: Special education and the deviant child in the Nordic countries – the impact of Foucault, Nordic Journal of Social Research Table of Contents Letters Guest editorial: special education and the deviant child in the Nordic countries – the impact of Foucault PDF Julie Allan, Bjørn Hamre Articles The subject of …

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La fracture politique. Archéologie de l’inégalité démocratique, par Hamdi NABLI, diplômé de Science Politique, Consultant indépendant, Enseignant à la Sorbonne Nouvelle et Fondateur du Centre d’Etudes et de Prospective Internationale (C.E.P.I.). Connaissances et Savoirs, 2016 Cet essai constitue une explication du malaise que ressentent les citoyens et les dirigeants face à la distance qui les sépare …

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Editor: With thanks to the researcher who sent me this dossier. Foucault’s work is invoked in this media controversy. François Ewald, Apologie de Claude Allègre Les Echos.fr 2/3/10 Voir aussi ce lien […] Le travail de Claude Allègre montre que la thèse du réchauffement climatique produit par l’activité humaine suppose tout un dispositif à la …

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FOUCAULT 8/13 EPILOGUE: MICHEL FOUCAULT, NEOLIBERALISM AND BEYOND The following is a guest post by Stephen Sawyer, organizer of the March 25-26 Foucault and Neoliberalism Conference at the American University of Paris. Professor Sawyer has kindly provided us with concluding remarks on the conference. By Stephen Sawyer Michel Foucault’s reflections on neoliberalism have ultimately left …

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Alan McKinlay and Ken Starkey (eds) Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self, Sage, 1998 This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault’s contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization. The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault’s contribution to organization theory, which also …

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Luca Provenzano, Foucault 8/13 epilogue: Foucault and neoliberalism conference report Foucault and Neoliberalism: A Report from American University of Paris On Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, participants in Foucault 13/13 went to Paris to present at (and report from) the conference “Foucault and Neoliberalism” organized by the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at …

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Student reads Foucault to donkey (2012) Published on May 11, 2012 8 May 2012 was International Donkey Day. Editor: The student doesn’t appear to be reading from Foucault himself but from J.G. Merquior’s 1985 book Foucault (Fontana Press). The donkey appears to be less than attentive! Donkey Conference at SOAS (School of Oriental and African …

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Bourke, T., Carter, J. “There’s nothing standard about standards”: exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education (2016) Journal of Geography in Higher Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1144730 Abstract Quality in education at the tertiary level is constantly questioned, and increasingly “professional standards” are offered as the solution to the perceived …

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Stuart Elden, Foucault’s Last Decade, Polity Press, Official release date 1 April 2016 Publisher’s page Description On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly …

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