Foucault News

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

Aaron Schuster, The Debt Drive: Philosophical Anthropology and Political Economy “Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference. Abstract: The philosophical conception of the human being as a being whose existence precedes its essence, defined by its radical openness and fundamentally historical character was, for the twentieth century, part and parcel of …

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O Poder e o Panoptismo da Cidadania, Segundo M. Foucault – Profa. Dra. Olaya Fernandez 21 de agosto de 2017 (segunda-feira) Conferência – O Poder e o Panoptismo da Cidadania, Segundo M. Foucault Conferencista: Profa. Dra. Olaya Fernandez – Universidad de La Rioja UR – Espanha Horário: 19h30min às 22h Local: Auditório Erico Verissimo, Laboratório …

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Leah Ashe (2017). “Knowing food, knowing men: Some thoughts on food, knowledge, and violence.” Presentation at L’Institut Européen D’Histoire et des Cultures de L’Alimentation (IEHCA) Université d’Été, Tours, France, 28 August – 2 September 2017. Video presentation on YouTube Text available at academia.edu [Update 31 July 2026. Link above is to the archived paper on …

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Pierre Macherey, Subjectivité et normativité chez Canguilhem et Foucault Exposé présenté le 1 juin 2016 dans le cadre d’une journée d’études sur « Michel Foucault et la subjectivation » (Université Paris-Est Créteil) Lorsque Canguilhem a eu connaissance du premier grand ouvrage de Foucault, Histoire de la folie, sur lequel il a eu à rédiger, en tant que …

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Clare O’Farrell, Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016) Date: Tuesday, 30th August 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm Location: A Block, Level 3, Conference Room 330 QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PDF Flyer This paper was originally delivered as a keynote presentation to the Foucault @ 90 conference at Ayr in …

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Thanasis Lagios, Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism 20th March 2015 | 12:00 – 12:45 Conference paper, audio podcast on The Voice Republic site Thanasis Lagios studied Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology (specialization: Philosophy), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1998 – 2003). Having completed his postgraduate studies (MA) in Political Philosophy at the University …

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Colin Koopman, Historicizing the Critique of Power 20th March 2015 | 14:15 – 15:00 Conference paper, audio podcast on the Voice Republic site Colin Koopman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also 2014-15 Humanities Research Fellow and 2015-16 Wulf Professor of Humanities. He has published widely on genealogy, …

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