Foucault News

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

What are you rebelling against, Johnny ? initié par le collectif F71 et le Centre Pénitentiaire de Fresnes – SPIP 94. Cette présentation est l’aboutissement d’ateliers menés par le collectif F71 avec un groupe de détenus du Centre Pénitentiaire de Fresnes et des élèves de théâtre du Conservatoire Municipal – Gabriel Fauré. Sur scène, ils …

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Kaveh Dastooreh, Le dilemme de la continuite et de la discontinuite. La diversite methodologique foucaldienne, Connaissances et savoirs, 2016 Sociologie – 62 pages – 140×200 ISBN : 9782753903319 La pensée de Michel Foucault est souvent présentée comme une pensée discontinuitiviste, comme si la discontinuité était le seul thème administrant son travail. En étudiant ce que …

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Thanasis Lagios, “Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism.” Le foucaldien 2, no. 1 (2016): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.12 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Abstract If we look at the historical and social presuppositions of Foucault’s methodology, we find out that Nietzsche’s work cannot be the only root of the shift from archaeology to genealogy. In fact, …

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Dotan Leshem, The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault, Columbia University Press, 2016 Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christianity’s …

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Pubblicato online l’e.book: Moneta, rivoluzione e filosofia dell’avvenire. Nietzsche e la politica accelerazionista in Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski, Guattari (Obsolete Capitalism Free Press – Rizosfera, 2016). Link at Variazioni foucaultiane L’antologia a cura di Obsolete Capitalism è scaricabile online gratuitamente. Autori e autrici: Algorithmic Committee, Sara Baranzoni, Edmund Berger, Lapo Berti, Paolo Davoli, Network Ensemble, Letizia …

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Kelvin T. Knight, Placeless places: resolving the paradox of Foucault’s heterotopia (2016) Textual Practice, 31(1), 141–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2016.1156151 ABSTRACT This article looks to restore Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to its literary origins, and to thereby resolve the paradox that exists between Foucault’s various definitions of the term. Described by Foucault as both an unimaginable …

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Special Issue: Foucault Meets EU Studies Global Society (2016), Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 387-506. Table of contents: Introduction: Foucault Meets EU Studies Lucie Chamlian & Dirk Nabers The Colonisation of the Future: Power, Knowledge and Preparedness in CSDP Lucie Chamlian Exploring the Security/Facilitation Nexus: Foucault at the `Smart´ Border Matthias Leese Knots, Port Authorities …

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Thanasis Lagios, Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism 20th March 2015 | 12:00 – 12:45 Conference paper, audio podcast on The Voice Republic site Thanasis Lagios studied Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology (specialization: Philosophy), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1998 – 2003). Having completed his postgraduate studies (MA) in Political Philosophy at the University …

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