Foucault News

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

“What Do You Want Me to Regret?”: An Interview with François Ewald Johannes Boehme interviews François Ewald, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3 November 2017 NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED, in 1968, that François Ewald would one day receive the French state’s highest order for civil merit. At the time he was a young, ambitious, and …

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Sergio Resende Carvalho,Ricardo Rodrigues Teixeira, Politics of life itself and the future of medical practices: dialogues with Nikolas Rose (Part 3), Interface – Comunicação, Saúde, Educação On-line version ISSN 1807-5762 Interface (Botucatu) vol.21 no.60 Botucatu Jan./Mar. 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622016.0848 Extract This is the third and last interview with Nikolas Rose which we sought to explore important …

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Any Answers: Christian Caujolle, Interview with Michael GrieveBritish Journal of Photography, 21 August 2017 The chief picture editor of Libération between 1981 and 1986, Christian Caujoulle left to co-found Agence Vu’ and, a decade later, Galerie Vu’. He has curated and edited countless photofestivals, exhibitions, and books, and is associate professor at the ENS Louis …

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An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz, Theory Culture and Society, 22 May 2017 The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz Elizabeth Grosz & Vikki Bell March 2017 VB: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2017). The book seems to simultaneously explore …

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Letzlove, portrait(s) Foucault Adaptation de Pierre Maillet d’après Vingt ans et après / Letzlove l’anagramme d’une rencontre de Thierry Voeltzel mise en scène Pierre Maillet Du mar. 28/02/17 au sam. 04/03/17 Rouen Du mar. 25/04/17 au jeu. 27/04/17 Brest Critiques Présentation Eté 1975. Un jeune homme fait du stop sur l’autoroute en direction de Caen. …

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Grégoire Canlorbe and Stephen Hicks, Capitalism versus the Philosophers, FEE: Foundation for Economic Education, 2 May 2016 Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks is the author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, which argues that …

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Interview with Stuart Elden by Dave O’Brien (podcast) on the New Books Network In relation to Foucault’s Last Decade Polity Press 2016 Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity on his thought? In Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) Stuart Elden, …

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Eugene Wolters, Michel Foucault, Prisons And The Future Of Abolition: An Interview with Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts, Critical Theory, JUNE 25, 2016 “Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition” explores the Prison Information Group (GIP), an organization founded by notable academics, including Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, to expose …

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