Foucault News

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

LIVE! From City Lights STAFF PICK – Foucault in California (2020) Podcast (From April 2019) Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade celebrating the release of Foucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade, Foreword by Heather Dundas, and published by Heyday …

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Aaron Schuster, The Debt Drive: Philosophical Anthropology and Political Economy “Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference. Abstract: The philosophical conception of the human being as a being whose existence precedes its essence, defined by its radical openness and fundamentally historical character was, for the twentieth century, part and parcel of …

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Internet et libertés publiques : qu’est ce qui a changé depuis Snowden ? France Culture, 20/09/2019 Podcast Les révélations d’Edward Snowden ont-elles provoqué plus qu’une prise de conscience? Que nous disent-elles de l’utopie déchue d’internet? Félix Tréguer, co-fondateur de la Quadrature du net, nous en parle dans L’utopie déchue (Fayard, 2019). Alors qu’internet devait permettre …

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Michel Foucault Audio Archive The most comprehensive collection to date of online audio recordings of lectures and courses by the renowned French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault. Held by Berkeley Library, University of California The most comprehensive collection to date of audio recorded lectures and courses by the renowned French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault. …

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Gilles Deleuze sur le masochisme, 03 avril 1963, Site INA, Émission. Recherche de notre temps Gilles DELEUZE questionné par Michel FOUCAULT donne la définition du contenu apparent du mot masochisme (association de la douleur et du plaisir sexuel) : SACHER MASOCH qui vécut en Galicie dans la seconde moitié du XIXè Siècle ; – Les …

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