Foucault News

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

In memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023) Published: May 10, 2023 Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto See also the Daily Nous site It is with deep sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces the passing of one of its most eminent members, Professor Emeritus Ian M. Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA. The influential scholar, teacher, and prolific …

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Décès de Daniel Defert : les réactions, Seronet, 10.02.2023 La disparition du sociologue et militant de la lutte contre le sida, Daniel Defert, décédé le 7 février à l’âge de 85 ans, a suscité de nombreuses réactions. Militants-es de AIDES, partenaires, personnalités médicales, associatives et politiques, etc., nombreuses ont été les réactions à l’annonce de …

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Daniel Defert, philosophe, sociologue et figure de la lutte contre le sida, est mort L’universitaire a été à l’origine de la création de l’association Aides en 1984, après la disparition de son compagnon, Michel Foucault. Par Franck Nouchi Le Monde, 7 janvier 2023 Translation into English can be found here [Editor: I will add further …

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L’écrivain Serge Livrozet, anarchiste et militant anti-carcéral, est mort à 83 ans franceinfo: Culture 30/11/2022 Figure des milieux anarchistes, il fut l’un des meneurs des révoltes qui ébranlèrent les prisons françaises dans les années 70. Il s’est éteint chez lui dans la région niçoise, “des suites d’une longue maladie”, ont annoncé mercredi ses proches à …

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Paul Veyne, grand historien français de l’Antiquité, est mort, Le Devoir Claude Casteran – Agence France-Presse à Paris 29 septembre 2022 L’historien de l’Antiquité Paul Veyne, salué pour son érudition et son enthousiasme pour transmettre sa passion des mondes grec et romain dans une oeuvre aussi savante qu’iconoclaste, est mort à l’âge de 92 ans, …

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Dominique Lecourt, author of the classics of Marxist philosophy of science Marxism and Epistemology Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault and Proletarian Science?, among many others, died in Paris on 1 May 2022. Here, Roger-Pol Droit remembers his life and work. Also included [on the Verso page] is a newly translated essay of Lecourt’s on Foucault’s The Archaeology …

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Kate Wagner, Remembering Ricardo Bofill, Architect of Otherworldly Social Housing, Curbed, 28 Jnuary 2022 His buildings fill dystopic films, but function more like colorful utopias. […] For many people, their introduction to the work of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill comes from the image of his grand social housing project, the monumental and colonnaded Espaces d’Abraxas, standing …

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Museum Thresholds The Design and Media of Arrival Edited By Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley. Routledge 2020. Copyright year 2018. Editor: I came across this volume doing a search on Richard Rogers, one of the two architect behind the Georges Pompidou centre in Paris, (the other was Renzo Piano). Richard Rogers has just died. …

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Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021) Art Forum, November 10, 2021 Renowned French thinker Sylvère Lotringer, a lodestar in the twin galaxies of literary criticism and cultural theory, died on November 8 at the age of eighty-three following an illness. Beginning in the 1970s, Lotringer reshaped the American literary scene through the journal Semiotext(e), which he began publishing …

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