Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault vu par son neveu La Novelle République, Communes, Vienne – Vendeuvre-du-Poitou – Vendeuvre-du-poitou, 23/09/2015 A l’occasion des journées du patrimoine, une exposition promenade était organisée dans les jardins de la maison familiale où Michel Foucault a écrit une grande partie de son œuvre durant les vacances. Pour Jocelyne Berge, présidente de l’association Le …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There is an interview with Daniel Defert in German here, in which he discusses Foucault’s life and work, Adorno, May 68 and political activism, the AIDES group he founded after his death, the lecture courses and the material sold to the BNF, and confirms that the History of Sexuality, Vol IV,…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration’ (“Nanmin mondai ha 21 seiku minzoku daiidô no zenchô da”, an interview by H.Uno, originally published on 17 August 1979, in Shûkan posuto, pp. 34-35) republished under the title “Le problème des réfugiés est un présage de la grande…

Michael James Rizza The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault, Noesis/The Davies Group, 2015 Notice on author’s blog An interview with the author, Michael James Rizza, in Hyperrhiz 12 This in-depth discussion of several canonical theorists — Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault — traces the trajectory of their ideas from one text …

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Editor: Reblogged from Stuart Elden’s site Progressive Geographies Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which underpin the State? A: It is true …

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Todd Meyers interviews Paul Rabinow On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry: A Conversation with Paul Rabinow, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 4th, 2013 FOR DECADES Paul Rabinow has been producing scholarship that tightens the aperture around what it means to write and think with anthropology. His work is ambitious and broad-reaching, yet at its …

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Source: Assassines: Le Blog de Farès Sassine: Entretien inedit avec Michel Foucault 1979 Friday, 22 August 2014 Entretien inedit avec Michel Foucault 1979 Cet entretien d’août 1979 a longtemps été inédit en français. Il n’a été publié dans sa langue originelle qu’en 2013 dans la luxueuse revue annuelle lyonnaise Rodéo précédé et suivi d’un dossier …

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An interview of the American anthropologist Paul Rabinow about his life and work in Morocco and in the philosophy of anthropology and science studies. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 31st October 2008. Edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Includes a transcript.   Created: 2011-04-12 14:55 Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers …

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