Foucault News

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

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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Margaret Walshaw, Post-structuralism and ethical practical action: Issues of identity and power (2013) Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 44 (1), pp. 100-118. https://doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.44.1.0100 Abstract In an era when familiar categories of identity are breaking down, an argument is made for using post-structuralist vocabulary to talk about ethical practical action in mathematics education. Using aspects …

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Présentation “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault Includes some footage of Foucault 06 déc. 1994 Après un extrait de “Lecture pour tous” du 15 juin 1966, François EWALD présente les “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault , textes écrits par le philosophe de 1954 à sa mort en 1984, en France et dans le monde …

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Hans-Martin Jaeger, Governmentality’s (missing) international dimension and the promiscuity of German neoliberalism (2013) Journal of International Relations and Development, 16 (1), pp. 25-54. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2012.6 Abstract An important insight from the recent publication of Foucault’s governmentality lectures for International Relations (IR) is that international manifestations of governmentalities such as police and liberalism, rather than constituting mere …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the following: ‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21…