Foucault News

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

Lectures de Michel Foucault 3 volumes originally published by ENS editions, now available in their entirety as open access at Open Edition books Les interventions et discussions réunies dans les trois volumes des Lectures de Michel Foucault sont issues de trois rencontres. La première, organisée à l’initiative de l’association Autrement dit, de l’association pour le …

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Michael Bibby, Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Psychiatric Power’ at the Collège de France (1973-74) Notes on selections Here is a selection I have made from Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France between 1973-4, translated by Graham Burchell, and published by Macmillan in 2006 with the title Psychiatric Power. The first thing I think that should …

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Thomas Zummer. Foucault, the apparatus and the sublime. 2014 Published on 12 Feb 2015 http://www.egs.edu/ Thomas Zummer, artist and independent scholar, giving a talk on the apparatus in Foucault and Agamben, the phantasma and the sublime. In the final section of the clip, Leslie Thornton’s film “A philosopher’s walk on the sublime” is shown. Theorists …

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CFP: Conference: Discipline and Punish – Today November, 5th to 7th Bremen, Germany Update October 2025. Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. This conference is about how we can use and develop Foucault’s analysis from Discipline and Punish now, 40 years after its publication. We invite you to …

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Journée d’étude « Foucault, la sexualité, l’Antiquité : 30 ans après » organisée par Sandra Boehringer et Daniele Lorenzini Amphi Buffon, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Paris 11 avril 2015, 9h-18h PDF of program   The history of sexuality is one of the last major projects launched by Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality is a momentous undertaking that …

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Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, The firm and corporative governmentality. From the perspective of Foucault, International Journal of Economics and Accounting, 2014 Vol.5, No.4, pp.281 – 305 Abstract: The fundamental base of this paper is the work of Michel Foucault and specifically during the period 1978-1979 at the Collège de France (The Birth of Biopolitics). The paper …

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Jörg Bernardy, Warum Macht produktiv ist. Genealogische Blickschule mit Foucault, Nietzsche und Wittgenstein, Wilhelm Fink, 2015 Further info Informationen zum Buch Im alltäglichen Denken und in den Medien ist Macht meist negativ besetzt. Dass Macht auch produktiv wirkt, wird dabei oftmals vergessen. Der historische Wandel von der traditionellen Souveränitätsmacht zu den subtilen Mechanismen moderner Disziplinargesellschaften …

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Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Conference 2: ‘Modern Appraisals of the Hellenistic Legacy’ 29 June–1 July 2015 Monash University Prato Centre, Italy See facebook page Call for Abstracts Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in recent years as philosophers have sought alternatives to deontological and utilitarian theories. This interest has …

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