Foucault News

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

Géraldine Brausch, «Un détour par les stratèges de Jullien pour relire les analyses stratégiques de Foucault», Dissensus, N° 4 (avril 2011) Table des matières I. Nécessité d’une hétérotopie II. Contre le modèle du droit, le modèle stratégique III. La logique disciplinaire ou l’art de faire table rase du réel pour mieux le (re)créer. Retour sur …

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Michael Power, Foucault and Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 37 July 07, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150133 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was a gifted but elusive thinker with a wide and continuing impact across many academic fields. This article positions his work as a historical sociology of knowledge and evaluates its contribution. After reviewing Foucault’s central preoccupations as …

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Radu, Carmen. 2011. “Governmentality and the Deportation of Eastern European Roma in Italy and France.” Student Pulse Academic Journal 3.04. Read online Abstract This case study asks the following question: given the symbol of the European Union as the ultimate supranational, rights-based, compliance-inducing international organization, why have member states France and Italy escaped punishment for …

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Strausz, Erzsébet, ‘Foucault’s Critique: A Topology of Thought’, Law and Critique, March 2011, 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-011-9082-5 Abstract In order to elucidate some of the ways in which critique and subjectivity become inextricably linked in Foucault’s oeuvre, the paper proceeds first by briefly discussing the concept of critique as limit-attitude as it appears in some of Foucault’s …

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Saul Newman, ‘Postanarchism and Power’, Journal of Power, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 2010, 259–274 https://doi.org/10.1080/17540291.2010.493704 Abstract This article develops a postanarchist conception of power by using Foucault to reveal some of the tensions and limitations within classical anarchist theory. As a Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis shows, the operation of power is more complex and constitutive …

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Anders Fogh Jensen and Rasmus Svarre Hansen, Cartographier le pouvoir: Foucault et Bourdieu Cartographier le pouvoir est un livre illustré qui tente de reformuler les théories de Foucault et de Bourdieu dans une langue simple et au moyen de dessins expressifs. The Cartography of Power is a picture book which recounts Foucault and Bourdieu’s theories …

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Marcelo Hoffman, “Containments of the Unpredictable in Arendt and Foucault”, Telos 154 (Spring 2011). https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154141 Abstract This article takes as its principal provocation Giorgio Agamben’s claim that Hannah Arendt’s analyses of totalitarianism do not obtain a biopolitical perspective and that, conversely, Michel Foucault’s analyses of biopolitics fall short of adequately addressing totalitarian states, thereby leaving …

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From Iran Book News Agency. New translations of Foucault made by Afshin Jahandideh and Nikou Sarkhosh will appear in Tehran International Book Fair, including “Philosophy Theater” IBNA: Afshin Jahandideh one of the translators told IBNA: “This volume consists of Foucault’s shorter notes, lectures and interviews made since 1966 on three main bases of discourse, power …

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The proceedings of the workshop on “Foucault and Utilitarianism” have just been released as a special issue in the bilingual Revue d’études benthamiennes. Summary In the 1970s, with the publication of Discipline and Punish, and with the development of his concept of discipline, Foucault put Bentham back on the map of academic study. However, Bentham …

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