Foucault News

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

Séminaire de philosophie « Foucault, sexualité et vérité : relire La volonté de savoir (2) » Responsable(s) scientifique(s) : Michel Senellart Pratique de 14h-17h30, en salle F 120 à l’ENS de Lyon (Site Descartes) Programme Introduction générale au séminaire 18 septembre 2013 Séance « Des Anormaux à La volonté de savoir (I) : Le discours chrétien de …

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Andreas Kotsakis, ‘Change and Subjectivity in International Environmental Law: The Micro-Politics of the Transformation of Biodiversity into Genetic Gold’, Transnational Environmental Law 2013. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S204710251300054X Abstract There is no hope for international environmental law to be an engine for global social change when it can no longer provide a compelling account of itself. This article presents …

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Photographic Exhibitions by Vincent J. Stoker Heterotopia, une brève introduction by Vincent J. Stoker [Editor: Links updated 13 April 2026] “Heterotopia, les grandes formes” Exposition solo 29 mai – 13 septembre 2014 Orthez – Centre d’art Image/Imatge Paris Photo Stand Galerie Alain Gutharc 14 – 17 Novembre 2013 Paris 8e – Grand Palais “Heterotopia, la …

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Conflict, Revolt and Democracy in the Neoliberal World Thursday, November 7 2013 BST – Friday, November 8 2013 Conference website [Update 5 April 2026. Link above to the page archived on the Wayback Machine] Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics, University of Brighton Grand Parade Brighton United Kingdom Keynote speakers: Wendy Brown University of …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In a previous post, I discussed the summary of a 1972 lecture Foucault gave in Minneapolis, entitled “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”. As far as I am aware the text of the lecture remains in Foucault’s own papers and was never published. It was published in a brief English summary,…

Crisis & Critique of the State Interdisciplinary Goldsmiths Graduate Conference 2013 Friday, October 25 2013 – Saturday, October 26 2013 Goldsmiths, University of London London United Kingdom Keynote speakers: Sara Farris Goldsmiths College, University of London Massimiliano Tomba University of Padua Bob Jessop Lancaster University The conference is free and open to all. If you …

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Natalie Depraz, De Husserl à Foucault : la restitution pratique de la phénoménologie, Les Études philosophiques, 2013/3 (n° 106), 333-344. https://doi.org/10.3917/leph.133.0333 Resumé Mon objectif dans cette contribution est d’explorer la pratique phénoménologique en jeu au sein même des descriptions de Michel Foucault. Un tel travail dépasse la portée d’un examen unique et ponctuel et supposerait …

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Sonja K. Pieck, “To be led differently”: Neoliberalism, road construction, and NGO counter-conducts in Peru (2013) Geoforum. Volume 64, 2015, Pages 304-313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.011 Abstract This essay explores how neoliberal governance is being contested, adapted, and engaged by Peruvian NGOs responding to the Interoceanic Highway, a large infrastructure project in southern Peru. The road is an …

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Peter-Paul Verbeek, Resistance is futile: Toward a non-modern democratization of technology, (2013) Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 17 (1), pp. 72-92. https://doi.org/10.5840/techne20131715 Abstract Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau …

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Michalinos Zembylas, Derrida, Foucault and critical pedagogies of friendship in conflict-troubled societies (2013) Discourse. 36(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.812341 Abstract The aim of this paper is to place Derrida’s and Foucault’s ideas on friendship in conversation and then discuss how those ideas provide a pedagogical space in which critical educators in conflict-troubled societies can promote new modes …

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