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

Antoinette Rouvroy, Thomas Berns, Translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht (2013). Algorithmic Governmentality and Prospects of Emancipation Disparateness as a Precondition for Individuation Through Relationships? Réseaux, No 177(1), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3917/res.177.0163. Extract The new opportunities for statistical aggregation, analysis and correlation afforded by big data are taking us away from traditional statistical perspectives focused on the average man …

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Antoinette Rouvroy, The end(s) of critique. Data behaviourism versus due process. In Mireille Hildebrandt, Katja de Vries (Eds.). (2013). Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology (1st ed.). Routledge. Book https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203427644 See also this post Extract Operations of collection, processing and structuration of data for purposes …

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Anna Nygren, An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car, Literary Hub, 13 February 2026. Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization One day last summer, at my parents’ house on the east coast of Sweden, my dad says he wants to show me something. He pulls out a piece …

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Séminaire de Michel Foucault du 17 mai 1979 au Collège de FrancePar Michel Foucault, François Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, Paul Veyne, Raisons politiques 2025/4 n° 100, Pages 15 à 52 https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.100.0015 Texte établi à partir d’une discussion d’environ deux heures, enregistrée et conservée par François Ewald, assistant de Michel Foucault entre 1976 et 1984 par Michel …

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Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 23 au 25 septembre 2026 à l’Abbaye d’Ardenne à Caen, IMEC Soumissions avant le 1er juin 2026 Appel à communications/ Pour le centenaire de Michel Foucault, l’Imec accueille les rencontres doctorales de l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault. Ces journées en immersion à l’abbaye …

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Nele Jensen, Experiments in response-ability: Integrative medicine, rebel doctors and expanding repertoires of care, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 397, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119127. Abstract: Recent years have seen the progressive expansion of Integrative Medicine (IM) as a self-proclaimed movement of medical professionals aiming to radically re-orient medicine’s reductionist focus on disease and treatment towards a new …

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