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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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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Frédéric Gros : “Selon Foucault, la folie n’est rien d’autre que l’inquiétude de la raison”, France Culture, Publié le vendredi 21 février 2025. Radio program, podcast Le philosophe Frédéric Gros nous parle de l’”Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique”, texte qui l’a bouleversé et dans lequel Michel Foucault trace une ligne de crête entre …

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