Foucault News

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

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Du droit à l’émancipation. Sur l’État, Foucault et l’anarchisme Séminaire ETAPE n°19 1 DÉCEMBRE 2015 A voir aussi PDF Séance à partir d’un texte de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, sociologue et philosophe, auteur notamment de : La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique (Fayard, 2012), L’Art …

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Jodi Sita and Marco Amati, The Panopticons are coming! And they’ll know when we think the grass is greener, The Conversation, August 22, 2016 Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control. Extract […]we asked park …

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Robin Rymarczuk, The Heterotopia of Facebook, Philosophy Now, Issue 107, August/September 2016 Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University room-mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. What started out as an on-campus online ‘hot or not’ tool resulted in …

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Kojiro FUJITA, Comment la philosophie de Foucault voyage-t-elle ? Ici et ailleurs, Association pour une Philosophie Nomade, 14 juin 2016 Introduction La question qui m’intéresse particulièrement est : « comment la philosophie, les théories et les concepts voyagent-ils ? » ; plus précisément, « la philosophie, les théories et les concepts occidentaux peuvent-ils se transférer …

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Sam Kriss, Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests – The Atlantic SEP 9, 2016 What it means to believe that “real” trees no longer exist. Something tremendous is happening; over the last few weeks, without too many of its globe-headed detractors noticing, a surprisingly vast community on the tattered fringes of intellectual orthodoxy …

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Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Marx and Neoliberal Subjects, Theory, Culture and Society, February 16, 2015 Daniel Zamora’s edited volume Critiquer Foucault: Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, published in November 2014, has been the subject of a heated debate recently on the philosophical blogosphere. Many Foucault scholars have been puzzled and surprised by the stir it has …

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Environmentality By Shaunna Barnhart This post is part of the Discard Studies Compendium, a keyword text. Environmentality is a term used to describe an approach to understanding complex interplays of power in environmental governance of human-environment interactions. It builds on philosopher Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Governmentality argues that …

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Laurence McFalls & Mariella Pandolfi, Post-Liberalism, Academic Foresights, No. 5: July-September 2012 Update October 2025: There is something wrong with the formatting of this page but you can read the article if you highlight the page How do you analyze the present status of post-liberalism? Post-liberalism is the currently emergent historical formation that has both …

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Colin Gordon, “Brexit Means Brexit Means Nothing” 14/07/2016 on academia.edu This note is a postscript to my earlier piece “The Will of the people in post – truth times”, Apart from its oversexed headline and the now outdated speculations about the future of a certain individual, this piece by Sean O’Grady in The Independent seemed …

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