Giorgi Vachnadze, Technology is Politics by Other Means. Reading Gil Duran’s “The Nerd Reich”, The Biopolitics of Artificial Intelligence blog, 25 August 2026 […] The Foucauldian Diagram Start with Clausewitz: war is the continuation of politics by other means. Foucault took this formulation and reversed it in his Society Must Be Defended lectures: politics is …
Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life. Guest post on Shelley Tremain’s blog, Biopolitical Philosophy, 13 July 2026 I first encountered the work of Michel Foucault twenty years ago. It was March 2006, and I was a second-year undergraduate student at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa. On a rainy winter day, …
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, University of Chicago Press, 2026. A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless …
Stuart Elden and Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault’s Visit to McGill University and his meetings with Quebec separatists, Verso blog, 2 July 2026 Michel Foucault gave some lectures on Friedrich Nietzsche at McGill University in April 1971. This was his first visit to Canada. […] Foucault arrived in Montreal only months after the October Crisis of 1970. …
Federico Soldani, “Mr. President, are you crazy?”: The New York Times calls for an “intervention” on the “mad king” Trump, echoing the scene of George III — last king of America — at the origins of psychiatry. When politics is constructed for the public as a psychiatric spectacle. Blog post. PsyPolitics. A blog about the …
Chris Gavaler, Michel Foucault Is Not a Comics Scholar, The Patron Saint of Superheroes blog, August 21, 2023 […] Foucault is not a comics scholar. He did, however, provide one of the earliest analyses of the comics gutter: “On the page of an illustrated book, we seldom pay attention to the small space running above …
Clare O’Farrell, Foucault, Radio Interview 2: Madness Silenced, Refracted Input blog, 29 July 2025 Citation from Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie a l’âge classique. Entretien avec Michel Foucault. Diffusion le 11 juillet 1961 sur France III National. In Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion / VRIN / INA, 2024, pp. 17-19. ‘[…] no other …
M G Hamner, The Order of Things: The difference of the Analysis of Wealth, affecognitive ~ religion, film, affect, academia blog, 10 July 2025 In chapter six of The Order of Things/Les mots et les choses, Michel Foucault marks, twice, a difference between the analysis of wealth and both general grammar and natural history (the …
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