Foucault News

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

Andrew Johnson, Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age, Theoria, Volume 61, Number 141, December 2014, pp. 5-29(25) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2014.6114102 Open access version on academia.edu Abstract: In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a ‘secret history of …

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Michael C. Behrent, Liberalism without humanism: Michel Foucault and the free-market creed, 1976–1979, Modern Intellectual History / Volume 6 / Issue 03 / November 2009, pp 539 – 568 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990175 Editor’s note: This article appears in French translation in the recent volume edited by Daniel Zamora Critiquer Foucault, Les années 1980 et la tentation néo-libérale, …

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Sverre Raffnsøe, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Morten S. Thaning, Foucault’s dispositive: The perspicacity of dispositive analytics in organizational research, Organization September 17, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508414549885 A full version of this paper can be found here Abstract While Foucault’s work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. …

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Magnus Paulsen Hansen Non-normative critique: Foucault and pragmatic sociology as tactical re-politicization, European Journal of Social Theory December 21, 2014 doi: 10.1177/1368431014562705 Abstract The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher unravelling various oppressive structures …

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Jason Maxwell, Killing Yourself to Live: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Autoimmunity Paradigm, Cultural Critique, Number 88, Fall 2014, pp. 160-186 10.1353/cul.2014.0038 Further info In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Since the English translation first appeared in 2008, Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics has become an object of …

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Mitchell Dean, Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism. Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014, Journal of Political Power, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014, pages 433-442 Further info Link to full paper on academia.edu Abstract This lecture evaluates the claim made by one of …

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Ahmad Mohammed Bani Salameh, Foucault’s Descending Individuation: The Unprivileged Under Panoptic Gaze in Shakespeare and Godwin, Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, Vol 41, No 3 (2014) Update October 2025: Journal site not connecting. Link above is to the listing of the article on ResearchGate Abstract This paper presents new critical insights into two selected literary …

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Thomas J. Catlaw, Recovering Ethical-Political Action in Government: An Introduction to the Symposium — Foucault’s Last Lectures and Their Implications for Public Administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 36(2), 2014, 157-174 Further info Abstract: An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including democratic political theory of political theorist …

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Rosie Meade, Foucault’s Concept of Counter-Conduct and the Politics of Anti-Austerity Protest in Ireland, Concept: The journal of contemporary community education practice theory, vol 5, no. 3, 2014 Further info and link to full PDF Abstract Since the announcement of the Irish recession in 2008, there has been much media and popular speculation regarding the …

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