Foucault News

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

Rachel Wilberforce takes her photographic inspiration from Foucault, notably his notion of heterotopia: “As we know, the great obsession of the nineteenth century was history: themes of development and arrest, themes of crises and cycle, themes of accumulation of the past, a great overload of dead people, the threat of global cooling. The second principle …

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Michel Foucault. Les Grecs disaient que les paroles avaient des ailes, Manuella Editions, 2013 Présenté sous forme de leporello de huit volets, cet hommage à Michel Foucault est édité à l’initiative du Centre Michel Foucault. Il est composé d’un texte extrait de l’émission “Le corps et ses doubles” du 28 janvier 1963, de la série …

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Photographic Exhibitions by Vincent J. Stoker in Paris Review in English “Heterotopia, les grandes formes” Exposition solo 29 mai – 13 septembre 2014 Orthez – Centre d’art Image/Imatge Paris Photo Stand Galerie Alain Gutharc 14 – 17 Novembre 2013 Paris 8e – Grand Palais “Heterotopia, la fin de l’Histoire” Exposition solo 24 oct. – 21 …

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Originally posted on BINARYTHIS:
A comic I made for a second year gender studies course I tutored for in 2012, to help students understand some of the themes from Foucault’s The History of Sexuality Vol.1: All page references from Foucault, M. (1976 [2008; trans 1978]), The History of Sexuality: Volume 1., R. Hurley, [trans], Victoria: Penguin Group Stay tuned…

Exhibition of John Miller at Praz-Delavallade Gallery in Paris Paris, 10 September 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA). From 8 September to 11 November 2012, the Praz-Delavallade Gallery in Paris is displaying “The Petrified Forest”, a new exhibition of artist John Miller. John Miller’s work is characterised by a multiform aspect: painting, sculpture, photography, and video. …

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Martine Franck took some notable photographs of Foucault, some of which can be found here Martine Franck: 1938 – 2012, Time, August 20, 2012 | By Vaughn Wallace Martine Franck, an esteemed documentary and portrait photographer and second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson, died of cancer in Paris on Aug. 16 at the age of 74. …

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