Foucault News

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

Matthew Ball, Queer Criminology, Critique, and the “Art of Not Being Governed” (2013) Critical Criminology, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-013-9223-2 Abstract This article builds on previous work that argues that a useful path for a “queer/ed criminology” to follow is one that takes “queer” to denote a position. It suggests that one way of developing such an …

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Antoine Doré, L’exercice des biopolitiques Conditions matérielles et ontologiques de la gestion gouvernementale d’une population animale, Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances, 2013/4 (Vol. 7, n° 4), pp. 837-855 Full article À partir de ses recherches consacrées à l’histoire des formes de gouvernement dans les sociétés occidentales, Michel Foucault décrit une forme de pouvoir spécifique de la …

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Marianne Dortants and Annelies Knoppers, Regulation of diversity through discipline: Practices of inclusion and exclusion in boxing (2013) International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 48 (5), pp. 535-549. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690212445279 Abstract Boxing gyms in the Netherlands, which were traditionally bastions of ‘white’ men, have become more and more diverse. Since boxers with different ethnic backgrounds …

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Timothy Campbell, Adam Sitze (eds.), Biopolitics: A Reader, Duke University Press, 2013 Description This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical—the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body—is not surprising …

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Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield Conference website Update September 2025. Conference site as it is archived on the Wayback Machine Conference Program 10:00am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 10:30am INTRODUCTION: Ansgar Allen, University of Sheffield, Carrie Paechter, Goldsmiths, University of London 10:45am KEYNOTE: ‘The Use and Abuse of Michel …

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Programme du séminaire Foucault 2014 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne EA3562 PhiCo – Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne Animé par Jean-François Braunstein Les séances ont lieu de 10 h 30 à 12 h 30 à l’UFR de philosophie de la Sorbonne, escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande. Website Samedi 25 janvier Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Frédéric …

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Source: le Site personel de Didier Eribon FOUCAULT : MAGRITTE, KLEE, MANET…. J’ai retrouvé dans mes fichiers l’ébauche d’un chapitre sur Foucault et Magritte et Manet qui devait s’intégrer dans mon livre paru en octobre 1994 chez Fayard, Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. Il est resté à l’état d’esquisse (j’ai abandonné plusieurs chapitres de cet …

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Paolo B. Vernaglione, Foucault in rete, Alfabeta2, 2 gennaio 2014 Per una urgente archeologia dei saperi dell’ultima modernità, Michel Foucault “sul web” potrebbe funzionare come dispositivo di sottrazione al potere narcisistico e commerciale della rete e come luogo di acquisizione di sapere in rapporto immediato con la realizzazione quotidiana della soggettività. Se si pensa alla …

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