Foucault News

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

Hamdi Nabli : “Le discours radical offre une binarisation du monde, il faut un discours alternatif”, Bondy Blog en partenariat avec Liberation, mardi 27 janvier 2015 Par Mathieu Blard Influencé par les théories de Foucault et Baudrillard, Hamdi Nabli, politologue, livre son regard sur la radicalisation, le traitement médiatique et ses conséquences. Rencontre. Vendredi 23 …

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Booked #3: What Exactly is Neoliberalism? Timothy Shenk ▪ Dissent, April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing …

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Miro Brada, Discontinuity, the new Artform This film was presented during an exhibition in Holland Park, UK between 18.Oct-3.Nov 2013: http://mirobrada.blogspot.co.uk/2013/… It is partially based on the philosophy of Michel Foucault… The interview I was doing with Miroslav Marcelli (a student of Foucault) about Foucault philosophy is here: http://mirobrada.blogspot.co.uk/2013/… You can also find this interview …

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Peut-on critiquer Foucault ? Entretien avec Daniel Zamora, Par Ballast – 3 décembre 2014 See earlier post on Critiquer Foucault See also a translation of this interview into English by Seth Ackerman on the Jacobin magazine site. (With thanks to Leonardo Goi for this link) Le titre est provocateur, soit. Mais à voir sa canonisation …

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Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former…

Foucault’s freedom, Johanna Oksala interviewed by Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine, Friday, August 1st, 2014. Update October 2025: Link above to archived page on the Internet archive Wayback Machine Johanna Oksala is a political philosopher who broods on Foucault, thinks that it’s time people stopped thinking in terms of continental vs analytic, thinks about Foucault and …

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A brief genealogy of governmentality studies: the Foucault effect and its developments. An interview with Colin Gordon by Fabiana Jardim, Educação e Pesquisa, vol.39 no.4 São Paulo Oct./Dec. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022013000400016 Full text available from this link ABSTRACT This interview approaches the intellectual context within the areas of philosophy and social sciences, in the 1970s United …

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