Foucault News

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

Gobby, B. Principal self-government and subjectification: the exercise of principal autonomy in the Western Australian Independent Public Schools programme (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (3), pp. 273-285. Abstract The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management sweeping …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works of theory, see my post here). Foucault scholarship has advanced…

Landahl, J. The eye of power(-lessness): On the emergence of the panoptical and synoptical classroom (2013) History of Education, 42 (6), pp. 803-821. Abstract This article considers the emergence and meaning of a particular kind of surveillance in classrooms: the one represented by the gaze of the teacher. Drawing on teaching manuals and other normative …

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Cycle Foucault: psychiatrie et psychanalyse (I). Conférence exceptionnelle d’Elisabeth Roudinesco (14 mars 2014) « Foucault à l’épreuve de l’historiographie de la psychanalyse » Further info Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo EA3562) Date et horaires: 14 mars 2014, 16h-18h Lieu: salle Lalande, UFR de philosophie – 17, rue de la Sorbonne, …

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Cycle Foucault: psychiatrie et psychanalyse (II). Journée d’étude internationale (15 mars 2014) 31 janvier 2014 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo EA3562) Further info Organisation: Judith Revel et Pascale Gillot Date et horaires: 15 mars 2014, 9h15-18h Lieu: salle Lalande, UFR de philosophie – 17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, …

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Stuart Elden (2014), Discipline, Punish, Examine and Produce: Foucault’s La société punitive, Review of La société punitive: Cours au Collège de France 1972-1973, by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt, Seuil/Gallimard: Paris. Update September 2025. This review originally appeared on the now defunct Berfrois site and is now held on Stuart Elden’s Progressive Geographies …

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Angèle Kremer Marietti, Repenser Foucault, Propos recueillis par Bencherki Benmeziane et publiés dans la revue de l’Université d’Oran At-Tadwin de décembre 2012, Dogma : Revue de Philosophie et de Sciences Humaines, octobre 2013 Full PDF Editor’s note: Angèle Kremer Marietti’s 1974 book Michel Foucault et l’archéologie du savoir, was amongst the very first books to …

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Ali Meghji (2014), Moving away from Bourdieu and reproduction: Foucault, resistance and gender in secondary school, Paper for ‘Foucault and education: Retrospect and Prospect‘ conference (University of Sheffield). Paper available on Academia.edu site Abstract The way in which I will be defending the utility of Foucault’s works for educational research is through the idea that …

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Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know February 21-22, 2014 Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University In celebration of the publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at …

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