Foucault News

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

Panopticon Pandemonium: bringing to life Bentham’s unrealised prison, UCL Bentham Project You can download the Panopticon Pandemonium for PC from this site. A Mac version of the game is coming soon. For around a decade of his life until 1803, the renowned English philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) lobbied the British government to build …

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One of those ubiquitous internet quizzes that circulate. This one’s on BuzzFeed: Which philosopher are you? To tell the truth, I was surprised that I actually got Michel Foucault in response to the somewhat left field questions  – but years of exposure to his work is bound to rub off somehow!