Foucault News

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

Michael Bibby, Selections from Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Security, Territory, Population’ at the College de France (1977-78) “Michel Foucault’s art consisted in using history to cut diagonally through contemporary reality. He could speak of Nietzsche or Aristotle, of expert psychiatric opinion or the Christian pastoral, but those who attended his lectures always took from what he …

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Olga Campbell-Thomson, Theory as method: the importance of Foucault in my doctoral research, Social Theory Applied blog, November 4 2013 Editor update 26 August 2026: Link above is the archived page on the Wayback Machine Now that I have completed my doctoral dissertation, I have the feeling it could be accomplished in a shorter time …

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FOUCAULT : MAGRITTE, KLEE, MANET…., le Site personel de Didier Eribon, 6 December 2013 J’ai retrouvé dans mes fichiers l’ébauche d’un chapitre sur Foucault et Magritte et Manet qui devait s’intégrer dans mon livre paru en octobre 1994 chez Fayard, Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. Il est resté à l’état d’esquisse (j’ai abandonné plusieurs chapitres …

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Out of Unmündigkeit – Final Thoughts on Translating Kant on Enlightenment Extract from a post from James Schmidt’s blog Persistant Englightenment. Where Foucault Got it Right In opting for “exit” I allowed my reason to be guided by one particular discussion of Kant’s essay: that of Michel Foucault. In his Berkeley lecture on the question “What …

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Originally posted on Philosophy for change:
This is the first instalment in a three-part series. Part 2. I tweet, therefore I become Part 3. The call of the crowd ——————————————- You start the day bleary-eyed and anxious. You stayed up late last night working on a post for your blog, gathering facts and memes from…

Via Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies The Funambulist blog has been running a series of posts on Foucault Episode 1: Michel Foucault’s Architectural Underestimation Episode 2: Do not Become Enamored of Power Episode 3: “Mon Corps, Topie Impitoyable” Episode 4: The cartography of power Episode 5: The political technology of the body Episode 6: Architecture and Discipline: the hospital Episode …

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