Foucault News

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

Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer Foucault). An interview he gave in relation to the book was translated into English for the Leftist journal Jacobin and …

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Emanuele Leonardi, Review of Dardot & Laval’s The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society, Theory Culture & Society, Nov 13, 2014 Link to full review Abstract: The review highlights how the new book by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval can be interpreted as a twofold contribution. On the one hand, it represents much-needed …

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JORNADAS“Discurso y poder: Foucault, las ciencias sociales y lo jurídico”. (A 40 años de la publicación de Vigilar y castigar).1º, 2 y 3 de Julio 2015Universidad Nacional de Lanús Especialistas que han confirmado su asistenciaDr. Alejandro J. Alagia (UBA), Dr. Ignacio Anitua (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas y Sociales “Ambrosio L. Gioja” – UBA), Dr. Nicolás …

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Andrew Johnson, Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age, Theoria, Volume 61, Number 141, December 2014, pp. 5-29(25) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2014.6114102 Open access version on academia.edu Abstract: In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a ‘secret history of …

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Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society, Verso 2014 Publisher’s page Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration of “pure” capitalism. …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, Foucault, neoliberalism etc. Full PDF of article  First two pages The recent online debate triggered by the Ballast interview (translated in Jacobin) with Daniel Zamora will no doubt have helped to publicise Zamora’s book and its forthcoming translation. As publicity for the French and English editions of the book, …

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Michael C. Behrent, Liberalism without humanism: Michel Foucault and the free-market creed, 1976–1979, Modern Intellectual History / Volume 6 / Issue 03 / November 2009, pp 539 – 568 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990175 Editor’s note: This article appears in French translation in the recent volume edited by Daniel Zamora Critiquer Foucault, Les années 1980 et la tentation néo-libérale, …

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Peter Levine, Foucault and neoliberalism on his blog. If you’re intellectually and ideologically eclectic, then you will find important ideas all over the map. It will not surprise you to learn that a person generally associated with the left has benefited from F.O. von Hayek or Gary Becker: leading libertarians. An excellent example is James C. Scott, …

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