Foucault News

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

Christopher Chitty, Foucault’s Addendum, The New Inquiry, 3 September 2013 Finally published, Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71, his first year teaching at the Collège de France, demolish the caricatures of his thought. On the first page of the lecture notes of January 27, 1971, Michel Foucault scrawled “incomplete” in his notoriously undisciplined hand. This bit …

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Mark Muhannad Ayyash, The paradox of political violence (2013) European Journal of Social Theory, 16 (3), pp. 342-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431013476567 Abstract This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the …

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Verena Erlenbusch, The place of sovereignty: Mapping power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault (2013) Critical Horizons, 14 (1), pp. 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1179/15685160X13A.0000000003 Abstract This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism …

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Lorenzini, Daniele. “What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?” Le foucaldien 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.2 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Originally published online 28 October 2013 Open access Abstract In this paper, I offer an overview of the ways in which Foucault defines and uses the concept of ‘regime of …

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From the Critical Theory blog Eugene Wolters, Listen to Foucault Lecture in English: The Culture of the Self, 27 September 2013 In the following audio recording, Michel Foucault lectures at UC Berkeley in 1983, a year before his death, on the subject “The Culture of the Self.” Foucault starts with a story written by Greek …

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Source Variazioni foucaultiani [Editor: 13 April 2026. Details and links updated.] The translated article can be found here Michel Foucault, “Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur.” Critical Inquiry 47, no. 1 (2020): 121–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48799742. See also Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, “Introduction to Michel Foucault’s ‘Political Spirituality as the Will …

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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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