Foucault News

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

Thomas, Andrea S. (2012). “Michel de Ghelderode, the Wooster Group, and postmodernist revisions of La tentation de saint Antoine”.  Orbis litterarum , 67 (2), p. 136-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.2011.01046.x Abstract La tentation de saint Antoine initially recalls Hieronymus Bosch’s famous Renaissance painting or Flaubert’s onieric work-in-progress. A closer look at more recent adaptations of the story of Saint Anthony …

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From the new ‘Between Foucault and Deleuze’ website. August 2025 update: This site no longer exists. The link above is to the site as it was captured by the Wayback Machine in 2015 The aim of the “Between Deleuze and Foucault” project is to establish an on-going collaborative and synergistic relationship between Purdue University and …

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Audrey Kiéfer et David Risse (eds). La biopolitique outre-atlantique après Foucault, Editions Harmattan, 2012 From the détentions et rétentions carcérales blog Principe de précaution. Bioéthique. Multiplication et diversification des dispositifs de contrôle des corps. Sexualité. Placement sous surveillance électronique. Village d’insertion pour les communautés Roms. Ces dispositifs de pouvoirs se présentent-ils comme rassurants, novateurs, libéralisateurs …

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Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk, Routledge (Interventions Series), 2012, ISBN: 978-0-415-61772-7 Publisher’s web page Description Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes …

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From Le Monde, 14 April 2012 The French government has decided to classify the Foucault archives as a ‘national treasure’ and has forbidden the export of these archives. This move has taken place as a ‘preventative measure’ against the sale of these 37,000 pages of documents abroad. L’Etat français a décidé de classer “trésor national” …

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Friday, April 27, 2012 – 3 pm Università degli Studi di Padova piazza Capitaniato 3, Padova Sala delle Edicole Roundtable on Michel Foucault, “Sull’origine dell’ermeneutica del sé. Due conferenze al Dartmouth College”, edited and translated by mf / materiali foucaultiani (Cronopio, Napoli, 2012) With: Judith Revel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Sandro Chignola (Università di Padova) …

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Cox, Barbara; Pringle, Richard (2012). “Gaining a foothold in football: A genealogical analysis of the emergence of the female footballer in New Zealand”. International review for the sociology of sport, 47 (2), pp. 217-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690211403203 Abstract In this article we adopted Foucault’s genealogical approach to examine the emergence of the female footballer in the early …

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Purabi Bose, Bas Arts, Han van Dijk, (2012). “‘Forest governmentality’: A genealogy of subject-making of forest-dependent ‘scheduled tribes’ in India”. Land use policy, 29 (3), pp. 664-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.11.002 Abstract This paper analyses the historical trajectories of both British colonial rule and independent India to categorise scheduled tribes and to appropriate and legalise forests in tribal …

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Minka Woermann (2012), Interpreting Foucault: an evaluation of a Foucauldian critique of education. South African Journal of Education Vol 32:111-120 https://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v32n1a560 Abstract The potential strengths and weaknesses of a Foucauldian critique of education are discussed and evaluated. The article focuses specifically on the value of Foucault’s work for critiquing social and political ideologies prevalent in …

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