Foucault News

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

A Foucault News exclusive. Governmentality studies observed Interview with Colin Gordon by Aldo Avellaneda and Guillermo Vega September 2015 Full PDF of article Interviewers’ introduction Colin Gordon is considered one of the key references of what, in a rather generic although recognizable way, has come to be called “governmentality studies”. He has been involved since …

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Notes on some papers uploaded on Academia.edu Colin Gordon, 11 February 2015. All but one of these uploads are about Michel Foucault’s History of Madness and/or issues relating to madness and psychiatry. There is some information about individual pieces in the abstracts.  “History of madness, history of exclusion” was the result of a commission for …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, Foucault, neoliberalism etc. Full PDF of article  First two pages The recent online debate triggered by the Ballast interview (translated in Jacobin) with Daniel Zamora will no doubt have helped to publicise Zamora’s book and its forthcoming translation. As publicity for the French and English editions of the book, …

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Michel Foucault, La société punitive: an editorial curiosity by Graham Burchell, 2014 Graham Burchell is the translator into English of the lectures Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. With thanks to Graham Burchell for sending this note to Foucault News. Translating Foucault’s Collège de France lectures, La société punitive, I have come across the …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, A Note On “Becker On Ewald On Foucault On Becker” : American Neoliberalism And Michel Foucault’s 1979 Birth Of Biopolitics Lectures A conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt ” [1] This is a response to a discussion linked to earlier on this blog: American Neoliberalism and …

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A note on Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme by Colin Gordon, July 2012 See here for details of the book Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme was published in France by ENS Editions  last December. Foucault’s recently, and imminently to be published work (notably the 1984,  1980 and Louvain lectures) are adding …

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