Foucault News

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

Colin Koopman, From Biopower to Infopower?: A Genealogy of One Aspect of Contemporary Politics Text on youtube Colin Koopman, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, spoke at Oregon State University on December 3rd, 2013. A wide number of contemporary political assemblages from mass surveillance to finance capitalism to big data suggest …

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Les néolibéralismes de Michel Foucault, Raisons politiques, N° 52, 2013/4, 172 pages. Special Issue https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2013-4 Présentation En 1979, Michel Foucault prononce un cours au Collège de France intitulé “Naissance de la biopolitique”. Cet ensemble de leçons propose un examen du néolibéralisme allemand (Ordolibéralisme) et américain (École de Chicago). Foucault, dans ce cadre, propose des constructions …

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Foucault , Neoliberalism and Global Post-Politics Canadian Centre for German and European Studies site at the University of Montreal Les films de l’atelier du CCEAE tenu à Berlin en mai 2012 Vous trouverez ici tous les films réalisés pendant l’atelier sur Foucault qui s’est tenu à Berlin en mai 2012 sur le thème : Using and …

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Call for Papers Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique Convenors: Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli Bergamo, June 5-7, 2014 Deadline: February 17, 2014 Conference Website and contact details [Editor: Link Updated 16 April 2026 to page archived on Wayback Machine] Since the Sixties, Michel Foucault had described his work in ethnographic terms, stressing that for him …

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Andreas Kotsakis, ‘Change and Subjectivity in International Environmental Law: The Micro-Politics of the Transformation of Biodiversity into Genetic Gold’, Transnational Environmental Law 2013. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S204710251300054X Abstract There is no hope for international environmental law to be an engine for global social change when it can no longer provide a compelling account of itself. This article presents …

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Conflict, Revolt and Democracy in the Neoliberal World Thursday, November 7 2013 BST – Friday, November 8 2013 Conference website [Update 5 April 2026. Link above to the page archived on the Wayback Machine] Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics, University of Brighton Grand Parade Brighton United Kingdom Keynote speakers: Wendy Brown University of …

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Sonja K. Pieck, “To be led differently”: Neoliberalism, road construction, and NGO counter-conducts in Peru (2013) Geoforum. Volume 64, 2015, Pages 304-313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.011 Abstract This essay explores how neoliberal governance is being contested, adapted, and engaged by Peruvian NGOs responding to the Interoceanic Highway, a large infrastructure project in southern Peru. The road is an …

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Alessandra Renzi and Greg Elmer, The Biopolitics of Sacrifice: Securing Infrastructure at the G20 Summit (2013) Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (5), pp. 45-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412474327 Abstract This article investigates infrastructure spending from a biopolitical perspective and rethinks its connections to emerging regimes of (in)securitization. Starting with a study of the organization and contestation of the …

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Saran Ghatak & Andrew Stuart Abel, Power/Faith: Governmentality, Religion, and Post-Secular Societies (2013) International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26 (3), pp. 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9141-z Abstract Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and its attending modalities of biopower and disciplinary technologies, provides a useful conceptual schema for the analysis of the role of religious and quasi-religious institutions …

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Gary S. Becker, François Ewald & Bernard E. Harcourt, Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment’: A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session (Coase- Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Working Paper No.654, 2013 [Editor: Update 15 March 2026. I have updated the links below to the archived pages …

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