Foucault News

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

Judith Revel, Foucault, une pensée du discontinu, Paris, Fayard, 2010. Description La pensée de Michel Foucault désoriente : considérée parfois comme celle d’un philosophe, parfois encore comme celle d’un historien ou d’un critique de la culture, elle ne cesse de déplacer ses choix méthodologiques, ses champs d’enquête et son outillage conceptuel ; elle surprend par …

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Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Description Voici la transcription de la première année des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Sa publication marquera une date dans la « réception » de Foucault. On ne pourra plus …

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Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Frédéric Gros et Judith Revel, Cahier Foucault, Cahiers de L’Herne, 2011 « Escrimeur plus que sabreur, Foucault est resté un dissident politique, toujours à la riposte plus qu’à la parade, sans jamais laisser s’automatiser ses esquives ou ses bottes ni prêter à imitation facile. » Toute la variété de l’oeuvre de …

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From Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control This is available as an ebook PDF here The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. RLF Manuskripte, Volume 88 The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to …

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Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 A workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book took place in Nice. See here for a video of the program. See also this press release You can can also …

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Sabine Audrerie, A l’ami qui m’a sauvé la vie. Compte rendu de Matthieu Lindon Ce qu’aimer veut dire. Paris: P.O.L., 2011, La Croix, 12 janvier 2011 L’écrivain et journaliste Mathieu Lindon fait le très beau récit de son amitié avec Michel Foucault et de ses liens avec son père, Jérôme, fondateur des Éditions de Minuit …

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Eliot Weinberger “‘Damn right,’ I said”, Review of Decision Points by George W. Bush, London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 pages 3-5. Read rest of review here In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with …

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Iara Vigo de Lima, Foucault’s Archaeology of Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century, having strongly influenced a large number of disciplines. He has played a fundamental role in the construction of new ways of thinking and radical changes in the …

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Sarah Wilson, The Visual World of French Theory. Yale: Yale Univeristy Press, Figurations, 2010. For further details see publisher’s site. Description This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s—Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them—and the artists of their times, most particularly …

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Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Security: Biopolitics, security and risk, London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-58343-5 Description Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security …

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