Foucault News

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

Political Science Department and the The France Chicago Center present “Reflections on Foucault’s Lessons on the Will to Know”, with Daniel Defert, Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt Julius Kreeger Professor and, Chairman of the Political Science Department. Daniel Defert edited the French edition of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au Collège de …

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and the Political Party 20th March 2015 | 11:00 – 11:45 The talk was given at the conference “Historicizing Foucault: What does this mean?” in Zurich on March 20, 2015. Update October 2025. Unfortunately the audio recording is no longer available. The text below is from the Genealogy + Critique site The …

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S. M. Amadae, From Panopticon to Prisoner’s Dilemma: Neoliberal Subjects as Prisoners of Reason 25th April, 4pm RHB 150, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW In this talk, S. M. Amadae (MIT and University of Helsinki) will explore how the pedagogy of game theory and practice of institutional design generates neoliberal subjects …

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Foucault 8/13 | Richard R.W. Brooks on Foucault’s “The Birth of Biopolitics” (1979) By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in concrete interactions …

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Foucault 8/13 | François Ewald on Foucault & Neoliberalism Transcribed and edited by Raphaëlle Jean Burns Reviewed and approved by François Ewald [Editors’ Note (Raphaëlle Jean Burns): This is an edited transcription of François Ewald’s talk at Hunter College CUNY on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 2:30-4:00 pm Room 204 Roosevelt House, Hunter College. The talk …

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Foucault 8/13: LIVESTREAM  Thursday, January 28, 2016 Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the livestream of the seminar here or below. We will also have a livestream overflow and discussion room at Columbia Law School, in Jerome Greene Hall …

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SEMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 CNRS – Paris 1/EXeCO) Première séance Samedi 23 janvier 2015, 10 h 30 – 12 h 30 (UFR de philosophie de la Sorbonne, escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande) François Delaporte (Université de Picardie) …

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