The limit experience blog has posted a collection of what they consider to be bad cover photos of books on Foucault. You may wish to differ or add your own examples!
The limit experience blog has posted a collection of what they consider to be bad cover photos of books on Foucault. You may wish to differ or add your own examples!
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. I also drew together all the information I know about…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
After what has felt like a long break from working on this book, I’ve begun writing again. Some of this was during a recent trip to Ghana. The first part of Chapter Six looks at the collaborative projects Foucault was involved with through his Collège de France seminars and his involvement…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 21st February, 1973 Part One (of my summary and comments, the lecture was delivered as a unified entity) In the early nineteenth century, the penal system became a penitentiary system for the first time, was more unified, and was much more under the control of the state than before.…
Robin Jeffrey “In every generation a slayer is born. One girl in all the world, the Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer” (Buffy). For more than seven seasons, fans of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer tuned in weekly and …
Kyle Keough, Powerlifting and Philosophy III: What Michel Foucault Can Tell Us about Enforcing Rules in Powerlifting, Lift: Stronger is Better site Editorial comment: One of the things I most enjoy about running this blog is the sheer diversity of applications (even tenuous ones) in relation to Foucault’s work. It has been a great many …
The Social Theory Applied blog started out as a theory and educational research blog but as Mark Murphy, who runs the blog, explains it has recently broadened its focus [Link updated 22 August 2026 to archived blog on the Wayback Machine] Please note that the remit of the site is to become broader than its original …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works of theory, see my post here). Foucault scholarship has advanced…
Philippe Theophanidis, Michel Foucault and “the problem of war”, 1981 From Philippe Theophanidis’ blog Aphelis Therefore, if you like, I never stop getting into the issue of law and rights without taking it as a particular object. And if God grant me life, after madness, illness, crime, sexuality, the last thing I would like to …
Paolo B. Vernaglione, Foucault in rete, Alfabeta2, 2 gennaio 2014 Update 6 July 2026. Link above is to the page on the Wayback Machine Per una urgente archeologia dei saperi dell’ultima modernità, Michel Foucault “sul web” potrebbe funzionare come dispositivo di sottrazione al potere narcisistico e commerciale della rete e come luogo di acquisizione di …
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