Foucault News

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

The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought​ and The Hispanic Institute for Latin American & Iberian Cultures are proud to invite you to the release of the last volume of Michel Foucault’s series of seminars at the Collège de France: Foucault and May 68: Penal Theories and Institutions (Collège de France Lectures, 1971-1972) (Hautes Études, …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds.) The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism, Fordham University Press, July 2014 ISBN: 9780823255979 Further info See below description for details of book launch at University of NSW Description Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought …

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Emily Horne and Tim Maly, The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance, Coach House Books, September 2014. Further info Note also: Sept 21 | Emily Horne & The Inspection House at Word on the Street – Toronto In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring …

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Soirée exceptionnelle à l’occasion de la présentation du livre Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l’aveu en justice, un livre inédit de Michel Foucault d’après des leçons données à l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) en 1981, édité par Fabienne Brion et Bernard E. Harcourt aux Presses universitaires de Louvain associées à University of Chicago Press. …

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