Foucault News

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

Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378 Full PDF here Abstract While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a form of political pastorate, did not exist in ancient Greece, he did take the view, following Hegel, that the ancient …

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https://vimeo.com/49843119 Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists, Feb 28, 2012 [Update December 2025. This video is no longer publicly accessible. But a written open access journal publication can be found here] Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement, theologie.geschichte 7 (2012) https://doi.org/10.48603/tg-2012-art-02 Michel Foucault’s conception of “power-knowledge” has been one …

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Colin Gordon, « Le possible : alors et maintenant. Comment penser avec et sans Foucault autour du droit pénal etdu droit public », Cultures & Conflits [En ligne], 94-95-96 | été-automne-hiver 2014, mis en ligne le 20 février 2016. URL : http://conflits.revues.org/18899 See academia.edu site for full text Résumé En essayant de contextualiser les enjeux …

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Sokhi-Bulley, B. Performing Struggle: Parrhēsia in Ferguson (2015) Law and Critique, 4 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-015-9152-1 Abstract ‘The enigma of revolts.’ You can almost hear the sigh at the end of this sentence. Foucault is making a statement here, published under the title ‘Useless to Revolt’, on that ‘impulse by which a single …

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Wyly, E. Where is an author? (2015) City, 19 (1), pp. 5-43. DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962897 Abstract If you’re reading these words on a digital device, we are not alone: our encounter as author and reader is taking/making place in and through an uneven, evolutionary planetary digital infrastructure of cognitive production, measurement and monetization. Five and a …

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Lingard, B. Thinking About Theory in Educational Research: Fieldwork in philosophy (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2), pp. 173-191. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793928 Abstract This article responds to and reflects upon the articles in this special issue. Specifically, it deals with the usage of theory in each of the articles, what we might see, as examples …

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Gibson, K.E., Dempsey, S.E. Make good choices, kid: biopolitics of children’s bodies and school lunch reform in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (2015) Children’s Geographies, 13 (1), pp. 44-58. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.827875 Abstract In recent debates surrounding childhood nutrition and US school lunch reforms, the child’s body serves as a contested battleground in a destructive politics of …

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Guilfoyle, M. Therapy and the aesthetics of the self (2015) British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2014.1002075 Abstract Post-structuralists argue that personal identity is a function of societal power dynamics. This becomes especially problematic for persons recruited into problem-saturated identities. In this paper, inspired by Foucault’s call for us …

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Rutherford, V., Conway, P.F., Murphy, R. Looking like a teacher: fashioning an embodied identity through dressage (2015) Teaching Education, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/10476210.2014.997699 Abstract This article makes a case for bringing in the body from the margins of research on teacher education. In doing so, it considers the personal and socio cultural …

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