Foucault News

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

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
The Power of Architecture – photomontage by the author (2012) Recently, I was lucky enough to be asked to write an article for the seventh issue of the Chilean journal SPAM and I decided to use this opportunity to articulate the clumsy addition of ideas that I started to touch…

Via Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies The Funambulist blog has been running a series of posts on Foucault Episode 1: Michel Foucault’s Architectural Underestimation Episode 2: Do not Become Enamored of Power Episode 3: “Mon Corps, Topie Impitoyable” Episode 4: The cartography of power Episode 5: The political technology of the body Episode 6: Architecture and Discipline: the hospital Episode …

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Peter Johnson has just launched a new site on Foucault’s notion of Heterotopia titled Heterotopian Studies. Update August 2025. This site is now only available on the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20191224045207/http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/ The site includes definitions, resources, discussions and a blog. The author notes: This web site is devoted to Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia. Foucault outlines …

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Simon Thorpe, In Defence of Foucault: The Incessancy of Resistance, Critical Legal Thinking Blog, 7 Feb 2012 Extract In a recent article, ‘Foucault and the Revolutionary Self-Castration of the Left’, Jérôme E. Roos argued that: “Because it connects power with knowledge through discourse, and because it posits that knowledge and power are continually reproduced through …

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Eileen Joy has posted a seminar syllabus and a link to a book chapter in progress on the In the Middle blog. I want to share with everyone here two recent fruits of these projects — a book chapter-in-progress and a seminar syllabus recently proposed, with Anna Klosowska, to the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance …

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This is a rather interesting interview with Eric Kluitenberg who applies Foucault’s work to the creation of online archives. You can find the full interview on the Institute of Network Cultures blog Extract from interview Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, …

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