Foucault News

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

Aldo Avellaneda, “Las escalas del poder político. Artes, redes y técnicas en los estudios de gubernamentalidad”, Astrolabio. Nueva Época, Núm. 14 (2015) Full PDF available Resumen: Este trabajo avanza la tesis de que los estudios de gubernamentalidad se han definido por la ausencia de un perímetro o dominio concerniente al poder político para realizar sus …

Continue reading

Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault, Foucault Studies, No. 20, pp. 291-306, December 2015 Foucault Studies is an open access journal. Extract You have been read as an idealist, as a nihilist, as a “new philosopher,” an …

Continue reading

BOURDIEU / FOUCAULT : UN RENDEZ-VOUS MANCATO?  Convegno Internazionale – Napoli, 1-2 marzo 2016 Università Suor Orsola Benincasa & Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Convegno organizzato da Gianvito BRINDISI & Orazio IRRERA con il sostegno del Centre Michel Foucault e in partenariato con le riviste Kaiak Philosophical Journey & MF / materiali foucaultiani Blog: https://bourdieufoucault.wordpress.com Programma:  1 …

Continue reading

INVITATION Michel Foucault : le dire-vrai entre éthique et politique Rencontre autour de deux nouveautés foucaldiennes publiées aux Éditions Vrin : Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité / La parrêsia Daniele Lorenzini, Éthique et politique de soi en compagnie de Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini Judith Revel 20 février – 14h30 Librairie philosophique J. Vrin …

Continue reading

Lawrence D. Berg, Edward H. Huijbens, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University Forthcoming in The Canadian Geographer/le Géographe Canadien Special issue on Critical Reflections on Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography Guest edited by Linda Peake, Kate Parizeau, and Beverley Mullings Draft on Academia.edu Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical analysis …

Continue reading

Foucault 8/13 | Richard R.W. Brooks on Foucault’s “The Birth of Biopolitics” (1979) By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in concrete interactions …

Continue reading

Lars Thorup Larsen & Deborah Stone (2015): “Governing Health Care through Free Choice: Neoliberal Reforms in Denmark and the United States”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 40(5): 941-70. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3161162 Abstract We compare free choice reforms in Denmark and the United States to understand what ideas and political forces could generate such similar …

Continue reading

Un moment de l’histoire de la psychiatrie Mercredi 10 février 2016 , 9h-13h, Salle Beckett, 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris Un moment de l’histoire de la psychiatrie. Autour de l’ouvrage Foucault à Münsterlingen. À l’origine de l’« Histoire de la folie », Paris, EHESS, 2015, éd. par Jean-François Bert et Elisabetta Basso Matinée d’étude organisée par le …

Continue reading