Foucault News

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

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Journal d’Amérique, La Règle du Jeu – Littérature, Philosophie, Politique, Art, novembre 2021 Présentant outre-Atlantique son film «Une autre idée du monde» («The Will to See»), Bernard-Henri Lévy confie ses impressions d’Amérique. Ici, aux États-Unis, mon livre et mon film s’intitulent The Will to See. J’aime cette tonalité nietzschéenne, ou foucaldienne, dans un …

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An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon Omar Sabbagh on a biography of Jacques Derrida. Philosophy Now, 2021 Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida, Verso Books, 2020, 320 pages, £11.99 hb, ISBN 978-1788732802 Deciding to write a biog raphy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), even a predominantly intellectual …

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Review of Stuart Elden: The Early Foucault on Phenomenological Reviews 20 September 2021. Stuart Elden’s The Early Foucault is the third of a four-volume study of the origins and development of Michel Foucault’s thought. This book is the first one regarding the period it covers, basically the 1950s, but it is the third to be …

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Federico Soldani, The Lancet’s Editor-in-Chief: “We will be transformed into biopolitical citizens” Psypolitics blog 3 August 2021 Topics that readers of PsyPolitics might already be familiar with such as the concepts of power, for instance as discussed by Michel Foucault, the transformation “from citizens to patients” – formulated for the first time in 2019 – …

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Jonathan Fanara, « La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux » : techno-surveillance, Le Mag du Ciné, 6 juin 2021 Review in English Dans La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux (Delcourt/Encrages), Yvan Greenberg, Joe Canlas et Everett Patterson se penchent sur les technologies de surveillance et la manière dont nos données privées sont exploitées …

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Michel Foucault en Amérique : au cœur de la vallée de la Mort (2021), Par Sophie Joubert, France-Amérique, Mai 25, 2021 Parmi les penseurs de la French Theory, Michel Foucault est le plus connu. Celui dont l’œuvre, controversée, irrigue encore aujourd’hui les travaux de nombreux chercheurs américains. A partir de 1970 et jusqu’à sa mort …

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The Bedroom by Michelle Perrot review – an intimate history by Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, Tue 11 Dec 2018 Details for book The bedroom, says French superstar historian Michelle Perrot, is the place where everything important has already happened. From the days when early man first rolled a boulder in front of his cave and …

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