Foucault News

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

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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Stephen Sawyer, 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. Michel Foucault’s reflections on neoliberalism have ultimately left us with more questions …

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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 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 the American University …

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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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A.B. Evans and J. Allen-Collinson, From ‘just a swimmer’ to a ‘swimming mother’: women’s embodied experiences of recreational aquatic activity with pre-school children (2016) Leisure Studies, 35 (2), pp. 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.962593 Abstract Increased academic attention on the gendering of leisure pastimes in recent years has highlighted the centrality of the gendered body in influencing how …

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and the Political Party 20th March 2015 | 11:00 – 11:45 The talk was given at the conference “Historicizing Foucault: What does this mean?” in Zurich on March 20, 2015. Update October 2025. Unfortunately the audio recording is no longer available. The text below is from the Genealogy + Critique site The …

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