Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I have a short piece in the new issue of India Today on ‘The legacies of the Leave EU vote’. The piece is available open access. I was asked to write about this for an international audience, so for UK or other European readers some of the discussion is likely…
Ester Bloom, How ‘Treat Yourself’ Became a Capitalist Command. The Atlantic 19 Nov 2015 Corporations love telling Americans they “deserve” fancy electronics and indulgent food. In a 1982 lecture that went on to be published as an essay called “Technologies of the Self,” the French philosopher Michel Foucault argues that looking after oneself, rather than …
Otto Friedrich and Sandra Burton, France’s philosopher of power (1981), Time, November 16 1981, pp. 92-4 Includes some remarks by Foucault. With thanks to Stuart Elden for tracking a copy of this down on the net.
Scott McLemee, The Afterlife of the Mind. Essay on Michel Foucault’s posthumous publications Inside Higher Ed, August 12, 2015 Franz Kafka left explicit directions concerning the journals, letters and manuscripts that would be found following his death: they were to be burned — all of them — unread. Whether he expected Max Brod, the executor …
The Heterotopia of Facebook Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’, Philosophy Now, Apr/May 2015 Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University room-mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. What started out as an on-campus online ‘hot or not’ tool resulted in the registration of a …
With thanks to Eugene Wolter’s post on Critical Theory for his post on this. Edward Said, My Encounter with Sartre, London Review of Books, Vol. 22 No. 11 · 1 June 2000 It was early in January 1979, and I was at home in New York preparing for one of my classes. The doorbell announced …
Trente ans après sa mort, la seconde vie de Michel Foucault Le 21/06/2014 à 00h00- Mis à jour le 25/06/2014 à 15h35 Juliette Cerf – Télérama n° 3362 Michel Foucault était depuis l’enfance poursuivi par un étrange cauchemar : « J’ai sous les yeux un texte que je ne peux pas lire, ou dont seule …
Karine Rodrigues, Foucault e a crise do sistema prisional brasileiro, O Globo, 11th January 2014 Update September 2025: Original link is no longer live. Link above is to the page as it is archived on the Wayback Machine Autor de livro sobre história da prisão no Brasil comenta teses do filósofo francês acerca do modelo …
Eric Aeschimann, Pourquoi Michel Foucault est partout, Le nouvel observateur, 21 décembre 2013. Economie, politique, genre, histoire, spiritualité… 30 ans après la mort du philosophe, notre siècle néolibéral porte son nom. Explications n 1979, dans le cadre de son cours hebdomadaire au Collège de France, Michel Foucault consacre trois séances à la théorie néolibérale. Il …
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