Foucault News

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

Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Gordon Hull – Why Foucault is Still Helpful on Neoliberalism, An und für sich blog, January 3, 2015 The conceptual core of Daniel Zamora’s “Can We Criticize Foucault,” in which he argues that Foucault’s late writings end up advocating the same things neoliberalism does, seems to me to be the …

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Mini-Series on Foucault and Neoliberalism: Responses to Zamora An und für sich blog, Monday, December 22, 2014 — Mark William Westmoreland Around the New Year, AUFS will be hosting a 4 day mini-series on Foucault and neoliberalism. What precisely is Foucault’s relationship with neoliberalism, particularly as expressed in Foucault’s writings/lectures on governmentality and biopolitics? In some …

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Originally posted on Le Palais Du Rire:
Un precursore del blairismo e della Terza via? Un pensatore sedotto dal neoliberismo? L’ultima barriera della borghesia contro Marx? La collocazione politica di Michel Foucault da sempre è fonte di dibattito. Un libro appena uscito e curato dal sociologo belga Daniel Zamora, Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et…

Originally posted on Le Palais Du Rire:
A trent’anni esatti dalla scomparsa avvenuta per SIDA, l’autarchico acronimo francese, il 25 giugno del 1984, Michel Foucault è pienamente nel secolo, ovvero nell’opinione comune. Il suo magistero caleidoscopico ed erudito ha sedotto frotte di studiosi, in particolare quelli che hanno risciacquato i panni nella Senna e oggi…

Jonathan Rée, Foucault, put to the question, Times Literary Supplement, 3 December 2014 Review of Michel Foucault, Wrong-doing, Truth-telling. The function of avowal in justice Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 344pp. University of Chicago Press. Throughout his frantic career as teacher, writer and activist, Michel Foucault kept …

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Paolo B. Vernaglione, Follia e discorso, Alfabeta2, 22 luglio 2014 Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine “Brisset era stato ufficiale di politzia giudiziaria. Dava lezioni di lingua. Ai suoi allievi proponeva dettati come: Noi Paul Parfait, carabinieri a piedi, essendo stati mandati al villaggio Capeur, vi siamo …

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Stuart Elden (2014), Discipline, Punish, Examine and Produce: Foucault’s La société punitive, Review of La société punitive: Cours au Collège de France 1972-1973, by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt, Seuil/Gallimard: Paris. Update September 2025. This review originally appeared on the now defunct Berfrois site and is now held on Stuart Elden’s Progressive Geographies …

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Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt (2014) The confessing society: Foucault, confession and practices of lifelong learning. London: Routledge. Paperback version. Originally published in 2012 Publisher’s page PDF flyer with 20% discount “I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes’ and Dahlstedt’s research and writing. They manage to present in a comprehensible way some essential concepts of Foucault …

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Christopher Chitty, Foucault’s Addendum, The New Inquiry, 3 September 2013 Finally published, Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71, his first year teaching at the Collège de France, demolish the caricatures of his thought. On the first page of the lecture notes of January 27, 1971, Michel Foucault scrawled “incomplete” in his notoriously undisciplined hand. This bit …

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