Foucault News

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

Apr 22, 2024 There certainly is a multiplicity of pathways leading from Deleuze (and Guattari) to posthuman thought. This one explores the one leading from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s “vitalism” and his version of the “death of man” to today’s convergence of molecular biology and computer science. Bruno Latour’s actor networks and Donna Haraway’s cyborgs …

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Feb 23, 2025 Michel Foucault from A to Z. War is certainly not a central entry in Foucault’s vocabulary. Nevertheless, in his lectures “Society Must Be Defended”, he deals extensively with the hypothesis that the model of war is well suited to analyzing the effects of power. In the end, however, he concludes that this …

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Theoretical Puppets: K is for Knowledge, 20 November 2023 In this video, Foucault addresses a distinction crucial for his understanding of “knowledge,” namely the difference between “knowledge” in general (savoir) and “scientific knowledge” (connaissance). Knowledge tends to be something like a system of belief, even a kind of ideology. At the same time, it is …

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“Theoretical Puppets” use puppets of Deleuze and Foucault to discuss social theory and philosophy Jennifer Sandlin, Boing Boing, May 10 2023. [Editor: See the Theoretical Puppets category on this blog for all the Foucault related episodes] If you’re a social theory and philosophy nerd who also loves puppets, have I got a YouTube channel for you—”Theoretical Puppets.” …

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