Foucault News

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

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Du droit à l’émancipation. Sur l’État, Foucault et l’anarchisme Séminaire ETAPE n°19 1 DÉCEMBRE 2015 A voir aussi PDF Séance à partir d’un texte de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, sociologue et philosophe, auteur notamment de : La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault. Sur le néolibéralisme, la théorie et la politique (Fayard, 2012), L’Art …

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Clare O’Farrell, Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016) Date: Tuesday, 30th August 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm Location: A Block, Level 3, Conference Room 330 QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PDF Flyer This paper was originally delivered as a keynote presentation to the Foucault @ 90 conference at Ayr in …

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Maurice Stierl, A Foucauldian Take on Border Violence and Mediterranean Acts of Escape , 04/25/16 Editor update 14 July 2026. Podcast no longer available. The unauthorized mass-movements of 2015, when more than a million people crossed maritime borders into European space, demonstrated more clearly than ever before that Europe’s deterrence politics had failed. The necropolitical …

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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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