Foucault News

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

Thinking Historically About Neoliberalism: Nick Gane’s response to Will Davies, Theory, Culture and Society, May 28, 2014 In 1971, Michel Foucault wrote a short polemic, entitled ‘Monstrosities in Criticism’, that took issue with reviews of Madness and Civilization and The Order of Things that had been published by Jean-Marc Pelorson and George Steiner. Foucault opened …

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Foucault, Governmentality, Context: Contextualised analysis power (27 – 29 October 2014) PhD School PhD School in Organisation and Management Studies Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Location Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Enroll no later than Monday, 15 september, 2014 – 23:45 Faculty  …

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Elizabeth Povinelli – The Four Figures of the Anthropocene Center for 21st Century Studies Published on Apr 23, 2014 As is known, although his histories of sexuality would consume much of his final life, Michel Foucault was not interested in sexuality in and of itself but only in relation to how it entangled itself in …

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Call For Papers: Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Critical Concepts for Old and New Times? A special issue of Foucault Studies, edited Barbara Cruikshank (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Sam Binkley (Emerson College) PDF of Call for papers Update September 2025. The special issue in response to this call was published 28 June 2016, no. 21. …

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Governing Academic Life A conference at the LSE and the British Library, June 25-26, 2014 Register online* June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our present situation through our reflections on Foucault’s legacy – …

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Darren Powell & Michael Gard, The governmentality of childhood obesity: Coca-Cola, public health and primary schools, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Published online: 14 Apr 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2014.905045 Abstract In this paper, we examine the emergence of what might seem an unexpected policy outcome – a large multinational corporation, frequently blamed for exacerbating …

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Reyes-Zaga, H.A. Biopolitics and disposable bodies: A critical reading of Almazán’s Entre perros (2014) Latin American Perspectives, 41 (2), pp. 189-201. Abstract Until now, little has been said about Mexican literature’s relationship with drug trafficking. While the literature influenced by drug trafficking may be seen as opportunistic and as promoting the dissolution of society and …

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Sam Binkley, Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life, SUNY Press, 2014. Publisher’s page Summary Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory. Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in the phenomenon of happiness, as evidenced by self-help books, talk shows, spiritual mentoring, business management, and relationship counseling. …

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