Foucault News

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

The cover image was produced by Astra Howard, an Action Researcher/Performer currently living in Sydney Australia. Spanning more than a decade, her work has sought to elicit and document marginalised, or overlooked, experiences and discourses of the city. The specific image I have chosen is part of a series entitled ‘Kings Cross the Whisper.’ This …

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2014 Assuming Gender would like to invite submissions to our forthcoming special issue: ‘Neoliberal Gender, Neoliberal Sex’. Neoliberalism has recently come to define a particular object of critical enquiry, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …

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Editor: See comments on this post and this article and this retraction notice Also Michel Charles, Le plagiat sans fard. Recette d’une singulière imposture, Fabula, November 2014 Call for Papers: DISCOURSES OF MADNESS/ DISCOURS DE LA FOLIE (Special volume of Neohelicon [43, 2016]. Guest-Editor: R.-L. Etienne Barnett) PROSPECTUS Contributions on any aspect of madness in …

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Call For Papers: Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Critical Concepts for Old and New Times? A special issue of Foucault Studies, edited Barbara Cruikshank (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Sam Binkley (Emerson College) PDF of Call for papers Update September 2025. The special issue in response to this call was published 28 June 2016, no. 21. …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 17 A Special Issue on Foucault and Deleuze guest edited by Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, Daniel W. Smith Issue 17 also includes: 3 original articles on the topics of: Foucault’s discursive practices Orientalist discourses in Foucault’s work Foucault’s late studies of and with classical Greek …

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New issue of materiali foucaultiani (II:4), consecrated mostly (but not exclusively) to “Butler/Foucault: Undoing Norms, Reworking Subjects”. Table of contents A che prezzo si diviene soggetti?  (pp. 3-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Butler/Foucault: Undoing Norms, Reworking Subjects Introduzione  (pp. 9-16)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli …

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Gouvernementalité et biopolitique : les historiens et Michel Foucault Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2013/4-5 (n° 60-4/4 bis). 208 pages. Further info Sommaire Foucault historien ? Michael C. Behrent Penser le XXe siècle avec Michel Foucault Paolo Napoli Foucault et l’histoire des normativités Luca Paltrinieri Biopouvoir, les sources historiennes d’une fiction politique Des outils pour …

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Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram, Mediatropes Vol 4, No 1 (2013) Link to issue. Full PDFs available Table of Contents Editorial Introduction: Neoliberal Diagrammatics and Digital Control Matthew Tiessen, Greg Elmer IPO 2.0: The Panopticon Goes Public Greg Elmer Resilience versus Resistance: Affectively Modulating Contemporary Diagrams of Social Resilience, Social Sustainability, and Social Innovation …

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Foucault et la phénoménologie, Les Études philosophiques, n° 106, 2013/3, 152 pages. Special Issue Further info SOMMAIRE Page 311 à 315 Jean-Claude Monod Présentation Page 317 à 332 Philippe Sabot Foucault et Merleau-Ponty : un dialogue impossible ? Page 333 à 344 Natalie Depraz De Husserl à Foucault : la restitution pratique de la phénoménologie …

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Critique de la participation et gouvernementalité, Participations N° 6, 2013/2, 228 pages Special Issue Further info SOMMAIRE Dossier : Critique de la participation et gouvernementalité Page 5 à 33 Guillaume Gourgues et al. Gouvernementalité et participation Lectures critiques Page 35 à 63 Pierre Sauvêtre La problématisation de la participation à travers l’histoire de la gouvernementalité …

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