Foucault News

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

Life and Debt: Living through the Financialisation of the Biosphere Philip Mirowski keynote for ‘Life and Debt’ conference Comments on Foucault at around the 14 minute mark Published on Aug 18, 2013 Update September 2025: This lecture is no longer on YouTube. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback machine How …

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Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times Call for Contributions Deborah Brock, editor dbrock@yorku.ca PDF Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times is a ‘sequel’ to my sole edited (Nelson 2003) publication, Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada.  However, it differs from the 2003 edition in a number of respects, most notably, it …

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Madra, Y.M., Adaman, F. Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms: De-Politicisation Through Economisation (2013) Antipode, Article in Press. Abstract This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post-war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post-Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault’s reading of …

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Guta, A., Nixon, S.A., Wilson, M.G. Resisting the seduction of “ethics creep”: Using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review (2013) Social Science and Medicine, 98, pp. 301-310. Abstract In this paper we examine “ethics creep”, a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of research ethics boards …

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Gobby, B. Principal self-government and subjectification: the exercise of principal autonomy in the Western Australian Independent Public Schools programme (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (3), pp. 273-285. Abstract The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management sweeping …

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Adam Davidson-Harden, What is social sciences and humanities research ‘Worth’? Neoliberalism and the framing of social sciences and humanities work in Canada (2013) Policy Futures in Education, 11 (4), pp. 375-386. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.4.387 Abstract This article offers a critique of the discursive politics represented in attempts to frame social sciences and humanities work in the mould …

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Interview: William Davies and Nicholas Gane on Neoliberalism Neoliberalism and the Ethos of Competition: William Davies and Nicholas Gane in discussion In this interview for the TCS Website (18 December 2013), William Davies and Nicholas Gane discuss competition, monopoly, markets, neoliberalism and Foucault. NG: You have a forthcoming book in the TCS book series called …

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Originally posted on Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Dans le Nouvel Observateur du 12 décembre 2013, Eric Aeschimann publie un article intitulé « Foucault est partout » censé décrire l’influence de Foucault dans la pensée contemporaine. C’est un article plein d’erreurs, d’approximations.  Dans ce texte, le critique me range avec François Ewald dans la catégorie des…