Foucault News

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

Alexa Lawrence, See 11 Heady Books Transformed into Ikebana Flower Displays Posted on Art News, 06/18/14 Camille Henrot channels Japanese zen gardens with an installation of floral odes to her favorite books The gracefully balanced flower arrangements of Camille Henrot’s installation “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers” (2012-2014) occupy the second …

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[Editor: Update 14 April 2026. Links updated to archived pages on the Wayback Machine] 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, …

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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 Heterotopia, une brève introduction by Vincent J. Stoker [Editor: Links updated 13 April 2026] “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 …

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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…