Foucault News

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

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Launches New Center Will Be Directed By Critical Thought Professor Bernard E. Harcourt, Who Has Challenged Conventional Wisdom on Practices including Mass Incarceration, Free Market Economics, Broken Windows Policing, and Racial Profiling Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu New York, October 7, 2014—The roots of critical thought go back …

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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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Foucault News editorial comment: I was interested by the opening sentence of this piece in The Guardian and my thought was that Foucault actually should be brought precisely into these kind of arenas. I have observed that practitioners can really benefit from engaging with Foucault’s ideas and have their ideas about their professional practice considerably …

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From the new ‘Between Foucault and Deleuze’ website. August 2025 update: This site no longer exists. The link above is to the site as it was captured by the Wayback Machine in 2015 The aim of the “Between Deleuze and Foucault” project is to establish an on-going collaborative and synergistic relationship between Purdue University and …

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See also this post for Hardt’s published work around this topic. Nick Levine, ‘Hardt waxes theoretical on revolution‘, Yale Daily News, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 First couple of paragraphs from report. See here for rest of article Marxist political and literary theorist Michael Hardt came to Yale Monday to spark revolution — not with petitions …

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