Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Description Voici la transcription de la première année des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Sa publication marquera une date dans la « réception » de Foucault. On ne pourra plus …

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Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Frédéric Gros et Judith Revel, Cahier Foucault, Cahiers de L’Herne, 2011 « Escrimeur plus que sabreur, Foucault est resté un dissident politique, toujours à la riposte plus qu’à la parade, sans jamais laisser s’automatiser ses esquives ou ses bottes ni prêter à imitation facile. » Toute la variété de l’oeuvre de …

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From Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control This is available as an ebook PDF here The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. RLF Manuskripte, Volume 88 The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to …

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MATERIALI FOUCAULTIANI – CALL FOR PAPERS italiano Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il secondo call for papers per la rivista online « mf / materiali foucaultiani » : Razze e razzismi: approcci foucaultiani La rivista online mf/materiali foucaultiani intende dedicare il suo secondo numero all’articolazione di razza e razzismo che emerge dalle opere di Michel …

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Matthew Bannister, ‘“I’m Set Free…”: The Velvet Underground, 1960s Counterculture, and Michel Foucault’, Popular Music and Society, Volume 33, Issue 2 May 2010 , pages 163 – 178 https://doi.org/10.1080/03007760903142889 Abstract This article explores concepts of freedom, repression, and sexuality in Western society and popular music, in relation to selected aspects of Michel Foucault’s writing and …

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Corey McCall, The Art of Life: Foucault’s Reading of Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Modern Life”, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 2, 2010, pp. 138-157 https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.24.2.0138 In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. In his essay “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault compares the role of modernity in the work …

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Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 A workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book took place in Nice. See here for a video of the program. See also this press release You can can also …

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Sabine Audrerie, A l’ami qui m’a sauvé la vie. Compte rendu de Matthieu Lindon Ce qu’aimer veut dire. Paris: P.O.L., 2011, La Croix, 12 janvier 2011 L’écrivain et journaliste Mathieu Lindon fait le très beau récit de son amitié avec Michel Foucault et de ses liens avec son père, Jérôme, fondateur des Éditions de Minuit …

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Megan Warin, ‘Foucault’s progeny: Jamie Oliver and the art of governing obesity’, Social Theory & Health, (1 December 2010) https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2010.2 Abstract Jamie Oliver is an English celebrity chef who has publicly politicised the relationships between class and food in Britain. No longer a simple chef, Oliver is presented as an evangelical saint, salvation of British …

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Eliot Weinberger “‘Damn right,’ I said”, Review of Decision Points by George W. Bush, London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 pages 3-5. Read rest of review here In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with …

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