Foucault News

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

A brief genealogy of governmentality studies: the Foucault effect and its developments. An interview with Colin Gordon by Fabiana Jardim, Educação e Pesquisa, vol.39 no.4 São Paulo Oct./Dec. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022013000400016 Full text available from this link ABSTRACT This interview approaches the intellectual context within the areas of philosophy and social sciences, in the 1970s United …

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Alexa Lawrence, See 11 Heady Books Transformed into Ikebana Flower Displays Posted on Art News, 06/18/14 Camille Henrot channels Japanese zen gardens with an installation of floral odes to her favorite books The gracefully balanced flower arrangements of Camille Henrot’s installation “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers” (2012-2014) occupy the second …

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Thinking Historically About Neoliberalism: Nick Gane’s response to Will Davies, Theory, Culture and Society, May 28, 2014 In 1971, Michel Foucault wrote a short polemic, entitled ‘Monstrosities in Criticism’, that took issue with reviews of Madness and Civilization and The Order of Things that had been published by Jean-Marc Pelorson and George Steiner. Foucault opened …

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Patrick Gamez, Ricoeur and Foucault: Between Ontology and Critique, Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ Ricoeur Studies (ERSS), Vol 4, No 2 (2013) doi: 10.5195/errs.2013.160 Link to full PDF Abstract In this paper, I trace some of Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault in his major works on historiography, and evaluate them. I find that Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault’s archaeological project in …

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Semester 2 tutoring vacancy for Habermas/Foucault-based subject at Swinburne A tutor is needed at Swinburne for a two-hour Friday afternoon Social and Political Philosophy tutorial centred around Habermasian deliberative democracy and Foucauldian power relations, for twelve weeks  starting  8 August next.  Please email a CV and expression of interest, preferably by Monday next, 14 July, …

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Foucault, Governmentality, Context: Contextualised analysis power (27 – 29 October 2014) PhD School PhD School in Organisation and Management Studies Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Location Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Enroll no later than Monday, 15 september, 2014 – 23:45 Faculty  …

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L’Usage des plaisirs et Le Souci de soi de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1984-1987 coédition PUC – IMEC, Juillet 2014 Dossier coordonné par Luca Paltrinieri. Textes choisis et présentés par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Sandra Boehringer, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Luca Paltrinieri, Judith Revel. Collection Regards critiques. Avec L’Usage des plaisirs et Le Souci de …

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