Foucault News

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

Brisbane Foucault Reading Group If you are interested in attending, please contact Clare O’Farrell. Brisbane Reading group blog Please note: This group will be running as a face to face group in Brisbane, Australia. Online attendance is not possible at this point. Venue: Top floor of the library. Seminar room R 614 Queensland University of …

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Michel Foucault and Neoliberalism PDF with further information Center for Critical Democracy Studies American University of Paris 6 rue du Colonel Combes Paris 75007 Room C-104 March 25-26 2016 Registration at criticaldemocracy@aup.edu Friday, March 25 9h-9h15: Introductory Remarks Stephen Sawyer 9h15-10h30: Contextualizing Foucault -Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foucault and the Neo-liberalism Debate: On the Limitations of a …

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Paul Rabinow, Foucault’s Untimely Struggle. Toward a Form of Spirituality, Theory, Culture & Society November 2009 vol. 26 no. 6 25-44 doi: 10.1177/0263276409347699 Abstract In his series of essays on Kant written during the 1980s, Michel Foucault attempted to discern the difference today made with respect to yesterday. As his essays as well as his …

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Michael R. Griffiths, Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture, Routledge, 2015 About the Book From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international …

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Michael Peters, Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A Foucauldian Perspective, Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001 58 https://ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/EDEQ/article/view/558 Abstract The notion of ‘enterprise culture’ emerged in the United Kingdom as a central motif in political thought under Margaret Thatcher’s administration. The notion represented a profound shift away from the Keynesian …

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Ester Bloom, How ‘Treat Yourself’ Became a Capitalist Command. The Atlantic 19 Nov 2015 Corporations love telling Americans they “deserve” fancy electronics and indulgent food. In a 1982 lecture that went on to be published as an essay called “Technologies of the Self,” the French philosopher Michel Foucault argues that looking after oneself, rather than …

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S. M. Amadae, From Panopticon to Prisoner’s Dilemma: Neoliberal Subjects as Prisoners of Reason 25th April, 4pm RHB 150, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW In this talk, S. M. Amadae (MIT and University of Helsinki) will explore how the pedagogy of game theory and practice of institutional design generates neoliberal subjects …

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Călin COTOI, Neoliberalism: a Foucauldian Perspective, International Review of Social Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2011, 109-124 Full PDF Abstract: The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been …

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Stephen Legg, Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s, Environment and Planning D, February 25, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816633474 Abstract In this article, I situate Foucault’s governmentality analytics between his first lecture course (On the Will to Know, 1970–1971) and his first course after his two ‘governmentality’ lectures (On the Government of the Living, …

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