Foucault News

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

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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Johan Hyrén, Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault: En rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle The English title: An Ethics of Self-creation Beyond Foucault: A Theory of Justice for a Multicultural, Liberal and Democratic Society. This recently submitted thesis is written in Swedish but includes an extensive English summary at the end and can be downloaded …

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Alessandra Renzi and Greg Elmer, The Biopolitics of Sacrifice: Securing Infrastructure at the G20 Summit (2013) Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (5), pp. 45-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412474327 Abstract This article investigates infrastructure spending from a biopolitical perspective and rethinks its connections to emerging regimes of (in)securitization. Starting with a study of the organization and contestation of the …

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