Foucault News

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

James Newbery, Space of Discipline and Governmentality: The Singer Sewing Machine Factory, Clydebank, in the Twentieth Century (2013) Scottish Geographical Journal, 129 (1), pp. 15-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2012.738824 Abstract This paper examines work at the Singer factory, Clydebank, in the first half of the twentieth century. It employs a geographical reading of the temporal and spatial strategies …

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Matthew Clarke and Barbara Hennig, Motivation as ethical self-formation (2013) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (1), pp. 77-90.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2012.715386 Abstract Motivation is a concept more frequently found in venues concerned with educational psychology than in ones concerned with educational philosophy. Under the influence of psychology, and its typically dualistic way of making sense of the world, motivation in education has …

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La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979 Dossier coordonné par Jean-François Bert Textes choisis, présentés et traduits par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Florian Nicodème, Luca Paltrinieri, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Ariane Revel, Judith Revel, Martin Saar, Michel Senellart, Ferhat Taylan. coédition Presses universitaires de Caen – IMEC, Collection Regards critiques …

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From the Korea Herald 10 April 2013 William Forsythe on Foucault’s ’space of otherness’ The “space of otherness” is what iconoclastic choreographer William Forsythe is bringing to Korea this week with the Korean stage debut of his 2006 work “Heterotopia.” A site-specific dance which requires the audience to move between two rooms on stage, “Heterotopia” …

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Pensées rebelles: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Editions Sciences Humaines. 21 mars 2013 – 192 pages – ISBN : 9782361060343 Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze : trois philosophes longtemps boudés par la France et aujourd’hui redécouverts. Leurs pensées peuvent être qualifiées de «  rebelles  » à double titre. Rebelles d’abord parce que singulières, critiques, irréductibles, remettant sans cesse en …

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Steven Dorrestijn, Technical Mediation and Subjectivation: Tracing and Extending Foucault’s Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy & Technology, June 2012, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-011-0057-0 Abstract This article focuses on tracing and extending Michel Foucault’s contributions to the philosophy of technology. At first sight his work on power seems the most relevant. In his later …

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En septembre 2013 paraîtront chez Vrin (Paris) les premiers deux volumes de la nouvelle collection « Philosophie du présent », dirigée par Jean-François Braunstein, Arnold I. Davidson et Daniele Lorenzini. PDF Le but de cette collection est de mettre au centre des interrogations philosophiques la question du présent, de notre présent, et de réactiver, à …

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In French with no subtitles. From a series titled Le Temps des Philosophes. 4. Philosophie et Vérité. Entretien entre Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault, Dina Dreyfus and Alain Badiou. The original program was produced by Radio-Télévision scolaire in 1965 and released on VHS in 1993 by the Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique. …

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Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Ernst Cassirer It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits – finding it required some (though…