Foucault News

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

Lester K. Spence, The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, 2013, pages 139-159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2012.763682 Abstract The neoliberal turn arguably has a powerful effect on black political ideas, black political practices, and black life in general; the nature of this effect has gone …

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Terry Flew, Six Theories of Neoliberalism, Paper presented to Emerging and Enduring Inequalities, the Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) 2012, held at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, 26-29 November, 2012. powerpoint slides Abstract This paper takes as its starting point the observation that neoliberalism is a concept that is …

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Stéphane Haber, Du néolibéralisme au néocapitalisme ? Quelques réflexions à partir de Foucault, Actuel Marx, Volume 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-72 In French and English http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/amx.051.0059 Résumé From Neoliberalism to Neocapitalism. Some Reflections Drawn from Foucault The article takes up Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism in the 1970s. It begins by showing how this analysis …

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A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, A Note On “Becker On Ewald On Foucault On Becker” : American Neoliberalism And Michel Foucault’s 1979 Birth Of Biopolitics Lectures. A conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt” [1] This is a response to a discussion linked to earlier on this blog: American Neoliberalism and Michel …

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Special Issue: Future Foucault: Afterlives of Bodies and Pleasures, South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 111, Number 3, Summer 2012 Jacques Khalip, Special Issue Editor Further info Jacques Khalip, Introduction: Voir venir Abstract It has been more than twenty-five years since the death of Michel Foucault, one of the last century’s most crucial philosophers, as well as …

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Below John Protevi on the New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog For other comments on the subject of gun control in the USA also referring to Foucault, see also post by Firmin DeBrabander on The New York Times opinion pages. A Foucaultian analysis of framing gun violence as a public health issue Doug Henwood, …

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Crawshaw, P. Governing at a distance: Social marketing and the (bio) politics of responsibility, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 75, Issue 1, July 2012, Pages 200-207 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.040 Abstract In the recently published lectures from the College de France series, The Birth of Biopolitics, Foucault (2009) offers his most explicit analysis of neo-liberal governmentality and its …

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‘Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker’: American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault’s 1979 ‘Birth of Biopolitics’ Lectures Gary S. Becker University of Chicago – Department of Economics; University of Chicago – Booth School of Business Francois Ewald Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Bernard E. Harcourt University of Chicago – Department of Political Science; University …

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Special Issue Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 43, 2012 Presentación Laura Quintana y Carlos Manrique Editorial Foucault’s Critique of Political Reason: Individualization and Totalization Paolo Savoia La palabra transgresiva y la otra vida: de la literatura al gesto cínico (entre Foucault y Raúl Gómez Jattin) Carlos Manrique De la subjetivación política. Althusser/Rancière/Foucault/Arendt/Deleuze Etienne Tassin Singularización …

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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique, Editions Fayard, A paraître, le 31 octobre 2012 Plus d’informations sur le site de l’auteur Présentation de l’éditeur À partir du milieu des années 1970, Michel Foucault a consacré au néolibéralisme de nombreux textes qui comptent parmi les plus controversés de …

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