Foucault News

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

Chloë Taylor, Birth of the Suicidal Subject: Nelly Arcan, Michel Foucault, and Voluntary Death, Culture, Theory and Critique, Published online: 23 Jul 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2014.937820 Abstract Michel Foucault argues that it is not sex but death that is the true taboo in the modern, biopolitical era. The result is that regular death has been privatised and …

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Foucault’s freedom, Johanna Oksala interviewed by Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine, Friday, August 1st, 2014. Update October 2025: Link above to archived page on the Internet archive Wayback Machine Johanna Oksala is a political philosopher who broods on Foucault, thinks that it’s time people stopped thinking in terms of continental vs analytic, thinks about Foucault and …

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Courtney Szto & Sarah Gray Forgive me Father for I have Thinned: surveilling the bio-citizen through Twitter (2014) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, . Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2014.938245 Abstract The Biggest Loser (TBL) is a reality weight-loss television show that aims to address the notion of an ‘obesity epidemic’ by instructing viewers about …

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Society of the Query #2 Session 4: Reflections on Search Antoinette Rouvroy (BE): Algorithmic Governmentality and the End(s) of Critique Conference Day 2 (8 November 2013) Algorithmic personalization is characterised primarily by the two following movements: a) dissipation of all forms of transcendent ‘scale’, ‘benchmark’, or hierarchy, in favour of an immanent normativity evolving in …

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Engin Isin, Citizens without frontiers, Open Democracy: Free thinking for the world, 15 October 2012 Movements without frontiers are neither commercial nor protected. In fact, state, corporate and religious authorities often do not endorse or support their movements and attempt to inhibit their activities. It is in this sense that the founding aspect of these …

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Charlotte Epstein, Experiences of bodily privacy are changing in the contemporary surveillance society Wednesday 6 August, 3.30pm – 5.00pm 2014 Bankstown Campus, Room 3.G.27 University of Western Sydney All welcome More info Abstract In this paper I consider how our experiences of bodily privacy are changing in the contemporary surveillance society. To this end I …

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