Foucault News

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

The recent interview with Daniel Zamora on neoliberalism is causing quite a stir in the English language world at least. Brian Doherty, Concerned Leftists Rediscover Michel Foucault Might Not Have Been As Anti-Market as They’d Like on the reason.com site Daniel W. Drezner, Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend, on the Washington Post …

Continue reading

Élisabeth Roudinesco: The Living Thought of Michel Foucault , Verso Books site, 13 November 2014 Élisabeth Roudinesco, author of Lacan: In Spite of Everything, Jacques Lacan & Co. and Madness and Revolution, among many others, on the writing of Michel Foucault, written for Le Monde in May: Thirty years after his death, Michel Foucault (1926–1984) is famed the world …

Continue reading

Thomas J. Catlaw, Recovering Ethical-Political Action in Government: An Introduction to the Symposium — Foucault’s Last Lectures and Their Implications for Public Administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 36(2), 2014, 157-174 Further info Abstract: An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including democratic political theory of political theorist …

Continue reading

Disposable Life – Jean Franco Histories of Violence is a multi-media forum dedicated to exploring the theoretical, empirical and aesthetic dimensions to violence. Founded and Directed by Dr. Brad Evans, this trans-disciplinary project provides an open access platform for the specific purposes of academic and public engagement; knowledge transfer; political discussion; philosophical reflection; along with …

Continue reading

A Weekend of Schizo-Culture Further info  Press Release Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book The closing Schizo-Culture Weekend will activate many of the subjects touched on by SPACE’s current exhibition: Schizo-Culture: Cracks In The Street. 12–14 Dec 2014 SPACE, 129–131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH Free entry Discussions ranging across themes such as anti-psychiatry, philosophy and …

Continue reading

Rosie Meade, Foucault’s Concept of Counter-Conduct and the Politics of Anti-Austerity Protest in Ireland, Concept: The journal of contemporary community education practice theory, vol 5, no. 3, 2014 Further info and link to full PDF Abstract Since the announcement of the Irish recession in 2008, there has been much media and popular speculation regarding the …

Continue reading

Peut-on critiquer Foucault ? Entretien avec Daniel Zamora, Par Ballast – 3 décembre 2014 See earlier post on Critiquer Foucault See also a translation of this interview into English by Seth Ackerman on the Jacobin magazine site. (With thanks to Leonardo Goi for this link) Le titre est provocateur, soit. Mais à voir sa canonisation …

Continue reading

Jonathan Rée, Foucault, put to the question, Times Literary Supplement, 3 December 2014 Review of Michel Foucault, Wrong-doing, Truth-telling. The function of avowal in justice Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 344pp. University of Chicago Press. Throughout his frantic career as teacher, writer and activist, Michel Foucault kept …

Continue reading

Frieder Vogelmann, Im Bann der Verantwortung. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2014 Further info Über das Buch Dass wir verantwortlich handeln sollen, scheint eine selbstverständliche Norm zu sein, die kaum jemand infrage stellt. Doch das war nicht immer so – noch vor 200 Jahren war »Verantwortung« ein marginaler Rechtsbegriff. Was bedeutet die steile Karriere von Verantwortung für …

Continue reading