Foucault News

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

Dawes, S. Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: a response to Downey et al. (2016) Media, Culture and Society, 38 (2), pp. 284-293. DOI: 10.1177/0163443715610922 [Editor’s note: I have posted details of Downey et al’s article below for easy consultation] Abstract Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of …

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Foucault : “Mes livres sont des espèces de petits pétards…“ En juin 1975, Roger-Pol Droit enregistrait de longs entretiens avec le philosophe Michel Foucault en vue d’un livre qui fut abandonné. Inédit. PROPOS RECUEILLIS PAR ROGER-POL DROIT Publié le 06/12/2015 | Le Point This article is for purchase. Dans cet extrait inédit, il parle de …

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Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran: The ‘Spirit Of A Spiritless World’ – OpEd (2016), Eurasia Review: A Journal of Analysis and News 13 February 2016 On the occasion of the thirty seventh anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, we are compelled to revisit the unique insights of Michel Foucault, the late French philosopher, who observed …

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Robert Maggiori, Bouveresse, Opération Vérité, Libération, 12 février 2016 Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault. Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir Avant-propos de Benoît Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat, Agone, 2016 148 pp., 18 €. Une analyse serrée de la pensée de Foucault et de sa lecture de Nietzsche. Rien ne peut effacer la dette …

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Laura Rice, Of Irony and Empire. Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa, SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies, 2007 Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa. Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly …

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité. Précédé de La parrêsia. Édition et apparat critique établis par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini. Introduction par F. Gros. Vrin – Philosophie du présent 320 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2656-4 – février 2016 À l’automne 1983, Michel Foucault prononce, à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, un cycle …

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Vandaele, J. What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation (2016) Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 24 (1), pp. 76-92. DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2015.1047386 Abstract Though the issue of translation occasionally surfaces in Foucault Studies, it remains an area that deserves more attention. To that effect, I briefly introduce some basic concepts of Translation Studies and then …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nanuet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s involvement in the parallel health group and other activist work are…

Embodying Temporalities: Deep Time, Genealogy, Exile The Collegium Phaenomenologicum will convene for its 41st annual session in Città di Castello, Italy, from July 11–29, 2016. The Collegium is intended for faculty members and advanced graduate and postdoctoral students in philosophy and related disciplines. The core of the program consists in a series of lecture courses, …

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