Foucault News

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

Margaret Bird – Inculcating an appreciation of time pressure in the young: the training of children for working life in 18th-century England Podcast at Backdoor broadcasting Royal Holloway University of London Department of History 
Departmental Research seminars 2014/2015 24 March 2015 The rearing of children has been a topic at the centre of academic debate …

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https://vimeo.com/49843119 Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists, Feb 28, 2012 [Update December 2025. This video is no longer publicly accessible. But a written open access journal publication can be found here] Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement, theologie.geschichte 7 (2012) https://doi.org/10.48603/tg-2012-art-02 Michel Foucault’s conception of “power-knowledge” has been one …

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Videos on youtube of lectures referring to Foucault Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, [Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju] University of Belgrade is the only scientific research institutions in Serbia which deals with research in the field of philosophy and social theory in a systematic and long-term way. As part of its scientific activities, …

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Thomas Zummer. Foucault, the apparatus and the sublime. 2014 Published on 12 Feb 2015 http://www.egs.edu/ Thomas Zummer, artist and independent scholar, giving a talk on the apparatus in Foucault and Agamben, the phantasma and the sublime. In the final section of the clip, Leslie Thornton’s film “A philosopher’s walk on the sublime” is shown. Theorists …

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Foucauldian Genealogies of Desire: Interest, Instinct and the Law A talk by Miguel de Beistegui (Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick) Link to event page This talk is available on itunes. Search this page Taking his point of departure in Foucault’s work from the mid to late 1970s, Professor de Beistegui will argue that the …

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SEMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein Samedi 24 janvier Philippe Sabot (Université Lille III) Relire Les Mots et les choses à la lumière des archives Samedi 24 janvier 2015, 10 h 30 – 12 h 30 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR de philosophie 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage droite, salle Lalande …

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Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014 Published on 1 Jan 2015 http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault’s Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish a set of modifications which have taken place in the practice of avowal leading to an increasing connection with juridical and …

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