Foucault News

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

In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Foucault in Brazil Review of Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias  (Lamparina 2016), 176 pages Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman, Theory Culture and Society, 22 March 2017 Open access Abstract: Michel Foucault visited Brazil five times from 1965 to 1976 yet the details …

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Eric Wilson, Precarious Politics, The Blackstone Review, December 2016 Review of State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey, Verso, 2015 […] Using Foucault’s notion of self-governance, Lorey helps to demonstrate how the hustler internalizes the imperative to hustle. Self-governance implies the ways in which a population is made, through a variety of …

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Foucault Studies Number 22: January 2017: Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault’s Rome Editor’s note: I have now returned to the journal, of which I was one of the co-founders, as part of an expanded editorial team. An interview with another of the three founding editors of the journal, Stuart Elden, also appears in this issue, …

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Philippe Raynaud, Michel Foucault, Commentaire 2016/1 (Numéro 153) Premières lignes Dirigée par Frédéric Gros avec le concours de quelques bons spécialistes, l’édition de la Pléiade présente la plupart des livres publiés du vivant de Foucault ou revus par lui avant sa mort (à l’exception regrettable de ses premiers travaux sur la « maladie mentale »), …

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Jason Read, Cutting Off Heads. A review of Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet (Zed Books: London, 2016) Jacques Bidet’s Foucault with Marx represents yet another contribution to the eventual overcoming of an academic skirmish between advocates of Foucault and Marx, itself a smaller conflict in the larger battle of postmodernism versus Marxism. The perspective …

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Frieder Vogelmann, Reading Practices: How to read Foucault?, Krisis, Journal for Contemporary Philosophy Issue 2, 2016 https://krisis.eu/article/view/38874 Review of: Daniel Zamora and Michael Z. Behrent, Eds. (2016), Foucault and Neoliberalism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 152 pages; and Mitchel Dean and Kaspar Villadsen (2016), State Phobia and Civil Society. The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault. Stanford: Stanford …

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Ott, J.C. Perceptions of the Nature of Happiness: Cultural, but Related to the Dynamics of the Human Mind and the Gratification of General Needs: Review of Laura Hyman: Happiness; Understanding Narratives and Discourses, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-137-32152-7 (2016) Journal of Happiness Studies, pp. 1-7. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10902-016-9720-6 Abstract In her book ‘Happiness’ …

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Editor: I posted up a review of this book earlier. It is attracting quite a bit of attention in France hence the repost. See the links at the end of this post Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir. Agone, 25/01/2016 Avant-propos de Benoit Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat. Et si …

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María Alejandra Energici Sprovera, El self emprendedor. Sociología de una forma de subjetivación Ulrich Bröckling (2015). Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Revista Persona y Sociedad, Vol. XXIX / Nº 3 septiembre-diciembre 2015 / 131-136 Full PDF available La pregunta por el sujeto ha tomado especial relevancia en los últimos años, principalmente porque permite pensar la …

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A review of Projective Ecologies, edited by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister. 2014. Second edition 2020. ISBN: 1940291127. ACTAR, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 314 pages. Review by Anne Trumble Several months ago, I reviewed Landscape Imagination, a collection of essays by James Corner, a professor at University of Pennsylvania and the landscape architect who designed New …

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