Foucault News

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

Interview on Radio France Culture, 24 Nov 2012. Cours de Michel Foucault (édition de Michel Senellart) Update: August 2025. Link is no longer available Invité : Michel Senellart, Professeur de Philosophie politique à l’ENS de Lyon à propos de l’édition du Cours de Michel Foucault “Du gouvernement des vivants“, cours  au Collège de France en …

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Crawshaw, P. Governing at a distance: Social marketing and the (bio) politics of responsibility, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 75, Issue 1, July 2012, Pages 200-207 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.040 Abstract In the recently published lectures from the College de France series, The Birth of Biopolitics, Foucault (2009) offers his most explicit analysis of neo-liberal governmentality and its …

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From Didier Eribon’s personal blog Rencontre autour des livres récents de Didier Eribon La librairie Les Mots à la bouche Le 14 décembre, à 19h, 6 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, Paris 4e La librairie Les Mots à la bouche, organise une rencontre autour des mes livres récents, le vendredi 14 décembre à 19h. Ce …

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Sanders, G. Help for the soul: Pastoral power and a purpose-driven discourse, Journal of Cultural Economy, Volume 5, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 321-335 https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.675884 Abstract This paper attempts to collapse the oft-reified demarcation between economistic ideologies and personal programs for self-improvement. In doing so, one can see the symbiotic relationship that exists between what …

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Text below posted on youtube . See also the European Graduate school site Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about inconsistencies in Foucault’s critique of the symbolic. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses the unity of the symbolic and biological, a new theory of power outside the model of language, the genealogy of relations of …

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Vintges, Karen, Muslim women in the western media: Foucault, agency, governmentality and ethics, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES Volume: 19 Issue: 3 AUG 2012, Pages: 283-298 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506812443476 Abstract: This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood’s The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes’ Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, …

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Cahill, Helen, Form and governance: considering the drama as a ‘technology of the self’, RIDE-THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE Volume: 17 Issue: 3 2012, Pages: 405-424 https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2012.701444 Abstract: Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’ provides a frame through which to review the way in which different drama conventions work to govern the knowledge of …

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‘Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker’: American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault’s 1979 ‘Birth of Biopolitics’ Lectures Gary S. Becker University of Chicago – Department of Economics; University of Chicago – Booth School of Business Francois Ewald Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Bernard E. Harcourt University of Chicago – Department of Political Science; University …

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Special Issue Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 43, 2012 Presentación Laura Quintana y Carlos Manrique Editorial Foucault’s Critique of Political Reason: Individualization and Totalization Paolo Savoia La palabra transgresiva y la otra vida: de la literatura al gesto cínico (entre Foucault y Raúl Gómez Jattin) Carlos Manrique De la subjetivación política. Althusser/Rancière/Foucault/Arendt/Deleuze Etienne Tassin Singularización …

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