Adrian Blau has posted a critique of definitions of governmentality both in Foucault’s own work and in the secondary literature on his blog. Part 1 deals with Foucault’s own definitions. Part 2 deals with the secondary literature. The author welcomes feedback on his remarks. Extract from Part 1 Foucault’s definition of governmentality is widely quoted …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a summary table of the plans, the lecture courses and related…
Originally posted on Philosophy for change:
This is the first instalment in a three-part series. Part 2. I tweet, therefore I become Part 3. The call of the crowd ——————————————- You start the day bleary-eyed and anxious. You stayed up late last night working on a post for your blog, gathering facts and memes from…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
This post refers back to the last post, and particularly the post before that which is inaugurated this sequence of posts on law over legislation. The last paragraph of that first post refers to Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault, referring to the need to detail further what is briefly in that…
Article in national newspaper O GLOBO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Karine Rodrigues, PUC-Rio debate palestras de Michel Foucault no Brasil 40 anos depois Filósofo francês causou frisson em ciclo de conferências realizada em plena ditadura, na Gávea Livro sobre o evento de 1973, “A verdade e as formas jurídicas” vai ser relançado em colóquio realizado …
A new blog titled Foucaultblog has recently been established at the University of Zurich. Contributions are in German, French and English. Update September 2025. This blog has been retitled the G+C blog which is the blogging platform of the open access Genealogy + Critique journal. The link to the original blog is from the Wayback …
Le racisme comme technologie de pouvoir 26 février 2013 par Alain Brossat Ici et Ailleurs site Plutôt que tenter de résumer mon livre, Autochtone imaginaire, étranger imaginé Retours sur la xénophobie ambiante, ce qui est évidemment l’exercice le plus douteux qui soit (ce qui se résume aisément ne vaut généralement pas grand chose), je vais …
From John Protevi on the New APPS blog Update September 2025. Now only available on the Wayback Machine Foucault’s nostalgia? One of the students in my Foucault class yesterday called Jouy (from the notorious pages 31-32 of the English version of History of Sexuality, Vol 1) “the first child molestor.” I agreed with that, insofar as, …
Editor: Philippe Theophanidis on his blog Aphelis links to a complete recording on YouTube of the Foucault-Chomsky debate and provides detailed background on the history of the recording and the various versions and publications of the transcript. The Chomsky-Foucault Debate On Human Nature, New York: The New Press, 2006, pp. 57-58. Content of the transcript …
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