Foucault News

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

Tom Nicholas, Postmodernism is dead. This is Who Killed It. Apr 25, 2025 Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas. Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows. Remember postmodernism? Just under a decade ago, the term “postmodernism” seemed to be everywhere. To slightly nerdier commentators on the political right (including Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Gad Saad, …

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Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Mark Pennington Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh on the New Books network Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from …

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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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