Foucault News

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

Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault (TV 1982) 06 oct. 1982 Christine OCKRENT interviewe l’actrice Simone SIGNORET et le philosophe Michel FOUCAULT sur la situation en Pologne, où le syndicat Solidarité vient d’être interdit par le gouvernement.Simone SIGNORET, qui porte un badge du syndicat polonais “Solidarité”, explique pourquoi elle est allée en Pologne, notamment avec Médecins …

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Thinking Allowed: Michel Foucault (2013) Program on BBC Radio 4 Duration: 28 minutes First broadcast: Wednesday 21 August 2013 Michel Foucault – Laurie Taylor presents a special programme on the life and work of the iconoclastic French philosopher and theorist. He’s joined by Professor Stephen Shapiro, Professor Vikki Bell and Professor Lois McNay. Stephen Shapiro …

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Frédéric GROS, “Foucault et « la société punitive »”, Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°135, 135 – La Prison, p.5-14.  URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Foucault-et-la-societe-punitive.html The full text of this article is available on the “Nouveau millénaire, Défis libertaires” site Surveiller et Punir de Michel Foucault , publié en 1975, constitue sans aucun doute une des plus …

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Originally posted on The Funambulist:
I am in complete disagreement with American libertarian politicians like Ron Paul and his son, Senator of Kentucky Rand Paul as far as interior policies are concerned. However, one needs to acknowledge the consistency of their political system, a sort of anarchist free-market in which supposedly social justice comes from…

Michael McCahill and Rachel L Finn, The surveillance of ‘prolific’ offenders: Beyond ‘docile bodies’ (2013) Punishment and Society, 15 (1), pp. 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474512466198 Abstract This article uses ethnographic research to explore how a sample of state-defined ‘prolific’ offenders living in Northern City (a small city in the North of England) experience and respond to a …

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10 mars 1975 Jacques CHANCEL s’entretient avec le philosophe, professeur au Collège de France, Michel FOUCAULT. Emission diffusée le 10 mars 1975 sur France Inter. [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. No longer available online. You may be able to find a transcription in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024] – Générique début – A …

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Duschinsky, Robbie and Leon Antonio Rocha (Eds.) Foucault, the Family and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Foucault, the Family and Politics presents a rich account of the politics and power relations that organize family and intimate life, advancing with and beyond Foucault’s classic and more recently-published writings. The obligation to attend school, to go to work, …

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Katherine Nicoll, Andreas Fejes, Maria Olson, Magnus Dahlstedt, and Gert Biesta. (2013) Opening discourses of citizenship education: A theorization with Foucault. Journal of Education Policy, 28 (6): 828–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2013.823519 Abstract We argue two major difficulties in current discourses of citizenship education. The first is a relative masking of student discourses of citizenship by positioning students …

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