Foucault News

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

Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or don’t forget Foucault by Felipe Demetri, Naked Punch First Posted: 03-21-20 […] What the coronavirus epidemic shows us is more the strength of Michel Foucault’s explanatory scheme than the current necro-thanatopolitical strain of interpretations. We all know that Foucault saw biopower as a series of events, from theoretical ones to concrete …

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Biagio Carrano, Balkanism, the European image of the Balkans, Serbian Monitor, 13/08/2019 An analysis of the Balkanist mentality, which, in a way, we all take with us when we think about the Balkans. A premise that is almost a spoiler: if you want to read something lighter, go immediately to the related article dedicated to Balkanology. And …

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Colleen Kelsey, Accidental Style Icon: Michel Foucault, Garage magazine on the Vice site, Sep 15 2019 Editor: Update 11 February 2026. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine. The French philosopher, who literally recommended care for the Self, is proof that so-called “public intellectuals” tend to have the best style. …

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Matt McManus, Michel Foucault: Arch-Leftist or Subversive Conservative?  Areo magazine, 25 February 2019 Michel Foucault is one of the great thinkers of (post) modern thought, and arguably the most influential figure in the humanities and social science from the second half of the twentieth century. He is also widely regarded as a beacon of leftist …

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New Means of Workplace Surveillance From the Gaze of the Supervisor to the Digitalization of Employees by Ivan Manokha, Monthly Review An Independent Socialist Magazine (Feb 01, 2019) Introduction In the last twenty years or so, workplace surveillance has attracted a great deal of attention from academics and the mainstream media.1 This is explained by …

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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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Danny Sullivan, What Foucault Can Teach Us About the Schismatic Growth of Comicon Culture | Seattle Weekly, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 […] Philosopher Michel Foucault identified the dangers that face any group as knowledge of its subject matter grows. His The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972) is an attempt to discover the systems of thought that …

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Orazio Irrera, La raison nègre et le corps d’extraction. Esprit, n. 450, décembre 2018, pp. 100-105. En combinant le schéma marxiste de l’accumulation primitive et la biopolitique foucaldienne, Achille Mbembe propose une généalogie du sujet de race comme « corps d’extraction ». Un des aspects les plus remarquables du projet annoncé par un ouvrage comme Critique …

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Daniela Blei How the Index Card Cataloged the World – The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2017 […] The index card was a product of the Enlightenment, conceived by one of its towering figures: Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician, and the father of modern taxonomy. But like all information systems, the index card had unexpected political …

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