Foucault News

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

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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Orazio Irrera, « Michel Foucault et les critiques de l’idéologie. Dialogue avec Pierre Macherey », Methodos [En ligne], 16 | 2016; https://doi.org/10.4000/methodos.4667 Texte intégral Orazio Irrera – On a l’habitude un peu hâtive de dire que lorsque Foucault critique l’idéologie, il s’adresse surtout à la conception althussérienne de l’idéologie. Mais en suivant votre argumentation, il …

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EDGES BLOG: CSC Interview with Daniel Zamora. Cultural Studies blog, George Mason University, 12 March 2016 The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Dave Zeglen interviewed Daniel Zamora, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. See below for the transcript. Let us begin with your …

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Rohan Deb Roy and David Arnold, Of Prisons, Tropics and Bicycles: A Conversation with David Arnold, Asian Medicine 6 (2010–11) 149–163 https://doi.org/10.1163/157342110X606914 Abstract David Arnold who retired this year as the Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial medicine and modern South …

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