CFP: Theoria: The Police and the Theory of the State Submission deadline: Friday, February 28 2014 The editors of Theoria: A journal of Social and Political Theory invite contributors to interrogate contemporary political and social theory through the lens of policing, with the view of connecting politics and policing. Well documented reflections based on a …
Foucault News editorial comment: I was interested by the opening sentence of this piece in The Guardian and my thought was that Foucault actually should be brought precisely into these kind of arenas. I have observed that practitioners can really benefit from engaging with Foucault’s ideas and have their ideas about their professional practice considerably …
[Editor: Update 14 April 2026. Links updated to archived pages on the Wayback Machine] Rachel Wilberforce takes her photographic inspiration from Foucault, notably his notion of heterotopia: “As we know, the great obsession of the nineteenth century was history: themes of development and arrest, themes of crises and cycle, themes of accumulation of the past, …
Source: Critical Theory blog […] Chomsky proceeds to answer a question concerning Foucault’s idea of regimes of truth, attacking Foucault as someone who “wildly exaggerates” the influence of power in scientific discourse. This is the idea that what is portrayed as incontrovertible scientific fact is rather a product of specific power relations which produce that …
Sophie Fuggle, Foucault/Paul: Subjects of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Description What is power? Where does it come from and who is in possession of it? How should we think about power and authority in a post-secular society in which traditional boundaries between individual and collective faith and secular governments and institutions are becoming increasingly blurred? …
A new Facebook page in Portuguese: Foucault em Frases (Foucault in Quotes)
Barry Smart, Foucault, Marxism and Critique, Routledge – 1983 Reissued 2013 In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault’s work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and analysis – issues such as ‘individualising’ forms of power, power-knowledge relations, the rise …
Mitchell Dean, The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics, SAGE, September 2013 Publisher’s page Description Mitchell Dean revitalized the study of ‘governmentality’ with his bestselling book of the same title. His new book on power is a landmark work. It combines an extraordinary breadth of perspective with pinpoint accuracy about what power means for …
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Narrated by Simon Prebble Tantor Audio Books Publication Date: 09/23/2013 Running Time: 13 hrs 8 min Editorial comment: This ebook seems to be subject to stringent copyright zone restrictions (available in the US, but not in some other countries). A customer comment on Amazon indicated …
Peter Johnson, The Geographies of Heterotopia, Geography Compass, Volume 7, Issue 11, November 2013. pp.790–803 https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12079 Abstract This article explores the ongoing fascination with Foucault’s brief and rather sketchy idea of heterotopia. Drawing out some key lessons from the most sustained interpretations of this curious spatio-temporal concept, it addresses weaknesses and potential contradictions and goes …
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