Foucault News

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

Emeritus Professor Stephen J Ball will be giving a presentation as part of the Foucault 40 Years After World Congress. Registration link Webinar details: Tuesday 4th June 20:00-21:30 (AEST), 11:00-12:30 (UTC) Why do we write? Or would Foucault thrive in the contemporary university? I want to say something about Foucault’s conception of the role and …

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Alain Brossat, Son cœur mis à nu – l’impossible biographie de Michel Foucault, Ici et Ailleurs, 11 août 2017 (Première publication : avril 2009) Il m’a fallu un peu de temps avant de déceler le piège que comportait l’invitation qui m’a été adressée par Stéphane Nadaud à venir parler ici autour d’un énoncé en apparence …

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Ori Rotlevy, Askesis, Critique, and Tradition: Foucault and Benjamin. Lecture on Soundcloud, October 2019. Editor: Update 24 Feb 2026. No longer available. An article was published in 2022 with the same content as this lecture. See Ori Rotlevy, (2022). Askesis and Critique: Foucault and Benjamin. Foucault Studies, (32), 28–53. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi32.6702 Abstract While Foucault referred to …

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Editor: I usually pass over this kind of material, but Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto has become an influential celebrity in the last few years with a large following. I am posting this in order to draw attention to the increasing volume and popularity of certain …

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Clare O’Farrell, Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016) Date: Tuesday, 30th August 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm Location: A Block, Level 3, Conference Room 330 QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PDF Flyer This paper was originally delivered as a keynote presentation to the Foucault @ 90 conference at Ayr in …

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Anders Fogh Jensen, Foucault – Systems of Thought – Systems of Management and Governance (2013) Foucault – Systems of Thought: Systems of Management and Governance. Danish philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen guides us through some of the primary issues in the philosophy of Michel Foucault (1926-84). Anders demonstrates that, to Foucault, the history of the systems …

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Date: May 30, 2014 Location: Stanford University Humanities Center Talk Title: Paul Rabinow “Contemporary Inquiry: Ecologies of Assemblages” Abstract: How should one conduct inquiry—today—into problems of broad scope and historical depth? How should one give form to participant-observation into problem spaces in which the specific site must be understood to be connected with multiple other …

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Dr. Thomas Lemke: “Biopolitics: Current Issues and Future Challenges” Keynotes from the Biopolitics, Society, and Performance conference. October 2012, Trinity College Dublin. Also of interest, another keynote lecture from the same conference Rosi Bradotti: “What is ‘Human’ about the Humanities today?” With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link