Foucault News

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

Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from within the tradition of liberal political economy. Divided into two parts …

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PDF of flyer Online Book Launch, 6–9 May 2025  Join us for a four-day online panel series —each day featuring a single one-hour session—hosted by the team behind The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space & Politics, Vol I & II.  Hosted by the co-editors of these two volumes— Dr Nikolina Bobic (University of Plymouth, …

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Genealogía, crítica y ensayo. Aportes para la historia del presente Compiladoras: Paula Lucía Aguilar, Ana Grondona y Victoria Haidar. Textos de : Mitchell Dean, David Garland, William Walters, Victoria Haidar, Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, Gary Wilder, Diego Giller, María Pia López, Timothy Mitchell, Ana Grondona Acompañan: Ana Blanco (IIGG-FSOC-UBA), Luciano Nosetto (IIGG-FSOC-UBA) Natalia Romé …

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Psychiatrie et politique dans la France d’Après-guerre. Présentation d’ouvrage (2022)

8 June 2022

Perry Zurn and I are pleased to announce that Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press at the end of this month. Perry and I are co-editors of the volume and Perry and Erik Beranek are the principal translators. Intolerable UM …

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Aldo Avellaneda y Guillermo Vega, (eds.) Conductas que importan. Variantes de análisis de los Estudios en Gubernamentalidad. EUDENE 2018. Presentation: Wednesday, 27, 18:30. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. Resumen Los así llamados Governmentality Studies (Estudios en Gubernamentalidad) vieron la luz en el año 1991, si convenimos en otorgar crédito …

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Josephine Berry, Art and (Bare) Life, A Biopolitical Inquiry. Sternberg Press, 2018 December 2018, English 14 x 22.5 cm, 328 pages, 45 color ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-393-6 €25.00 Book launch at Imperial College London Art and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Inquiry analyzes modern and contemporary art’s drive to blur with life, and how this is …

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The Colonial and Settler Studies Research Network and The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research present Biopolitics: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable How and in what ways is the body a site of intervention for power in colonial and postcolonial situations? How do race and gender affect modes of governmentality and representation? This roundtable considers these and …

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INVITATION Michel Foucault : le dire-vrai entre éthique et politique Rencontre autour de deux nouveautés foucaldiennes publiées aux Éditions Vrin : Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité / La parrêsia Daniele Lorenzini, Éthique et politique de soi en compagnie de Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini Judith Revel 20 février – 14h30 Librairie philosophique J. Vrin …

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Presentación LOS USOS DE FOUCAULT EN LA ARGENTINA recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días Mariana Canavese Participan: Edgardo Castro, Ivana Costa, Horacio Tarcus y Hugo Vezzetti Jueves 5 de noviembre, 19 hs Librería Hernández Av. Corrientes 1436, C.A.B.A. Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en …

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