Foucault News

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

Stickney, J.A., Judging Teachers: Foucault, governance and agency during education reforms, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 44, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 649-662 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00752.x Abstract Over a decade after publication of Thinking Again: Education After Postmodernism (1998) contention still emerges among Foucaultians over whether discursively made-up things really exist, and whether removal of the constituent …

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Daniel Defert, « Je crois au temps… », Propos recueillis par Guillaume Bellon, Recto/Verso, n° 1, Juin 2007. Update August 2025: This is now only available on the Wayback machine. Link in title above Daniel Defert, qui a partagé la vie de Foucault pendant plus de vingt ans, est aujourd’hui propriétaire de l’ensemble des notes …

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Bronwyn Davies, Jane Speedy, Who was Pierre Rivière? Introduction to the special issue, Emotion, Space and Society, Available online 22 April 2012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2012.03.005 Table of contents for special issue Abstract Foucault’s (1975) edited book, I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother… A case of parricide in the 19th century, includes …

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Korvela, P.-E. Sources of governmentality: Two notes on Foucault’s lecture, History of the Human Sciences, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 73-89 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112454370 Abstract The article scrutinizes Michel Foucault’s interpretation of Machiavelli in his famous lecture on governmentality. Foucault is slightly misguided in his search for the origins of governmentality, the article asserts. Foucault …

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Binkley, S. The Government of Intimacy: Satiation, Intensification, and the Space of Emotional Reciprocity, Rethinking Marxism, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 556-573 https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2012.711062 Abstract Considering a series of transformations in the fields of marriage and couples counseling, family therapy, and so on in the United States from the turn of the century to …

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Crawshaw, P. Governing at a distance: Social marketing and the (bio) politics of responsibility, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 75, Issue 1, July 2012, Pages 200-207 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.040 Abstract In the recently published lectures from the College de France series, The Birth of Biopolitics, Foucault (2009) offers his most explicit analysis of neo-liberal governmentality and its …

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Sanders, G. Help for the soul: Pastoral power and a purpose-driven discourse, Journal of Cultural Economy, Volume 5, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 321-335 https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.675884 Abstract This paper attempts to collapse the oft-reified demarcation between economistic ideologies and personal programs for self-improvement. In doing so, one can see the symbiotic relationship that exists between what …

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Vintges, Karen, Muslim women in the western media: Foucault, agency, governmentality and ethics, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES Volume: 19 Issue: 3 AUG 2012, Pages: 283-298 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506812443476 Abstract: This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood’s The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes’ Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, …

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Cahill, Helen, Form and governance: considering the drama as a ‘technology of the self’, RIDE-THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE Volume: 17 Issue: 3 2012, Pages: 405-424 https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2012.701444 Abstract: Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’ provides a frame through which to review the way in which different drama conventions work to govern the knowledge of …

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