Foucault News

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

Pierre Lauret, « Foucault est un personnage extraordinaire » entretien avec le collectif théâtral F71, Cahiers philosophiques, 2012/3 (n° 130), 112-126 Further info and text Fondé en 2004, le collectif F71 est composé de cinq comédiennes (Sabrina Baldassarra, Stéphanie Farison, Emmanuelle Lafon, Sara Louis, Lucie Nicolas), qui co-assument la responsabilité de la mise en scène …

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Call for Papers Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique Convenors: Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli Bergamo, June 5-7, 2014 Deadline: February 17, 2014 Conference Website and contact details [Editor: Link Updated 16 April 2026 to page archived on Wayback Machine] Since the Sixties, Michel Foucault had described his work in ethnographic terms, stressing that for him …

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Julien Cavagnis, Michel Foucault et le soulèvement iranien de 1978 : retour sur la notion de « spiritualité politique », Cahiers philosophiques 2012/3 (n° 130), 51-71 Further info Résumé La série d’articles écrits par Michel Foucault sur le soulèvement iranien de 1978 a été l’objet de vives polémiques. L’analyse sérieuse et attentive d’un tel corpus …

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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 …

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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 …

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[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, …

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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 …

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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? …

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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 …

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