Foucault News

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

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and the Political Party 20th March 2015 | 11:00 – 11:45 The talk was given at the conference “Historicizing Foucault: What does this mean?” in Zurich on March 20, 2015. Update October 2025. Unfortunately the audio recording is no longer available. The text below is from the Genealogy + Critique site The …

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Quel est l’héritage de Michel Foucault? Sophie Joubert, Avec Frédéric Gros, philosophe, professeur à Sciences Po, coordinateur de la Pléiade Michel Foucault, Radio France Information, Diffusion : vendredi 8 janvier 2016 Podcast Impossible de parler de la folie, de la prison ou de l’histoire de la sexualité sans citer le nom de Michel Foucault. Il …

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Foucault 8/13: LIVESTREAM  Thursday, January 28, 2016 Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the livestream of the seminar here or below. We will also have a livestream overflow and discussion room at Columbia Law School, in Jerome Greene Hall …

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Behrouz Ghamari – Foucault, Spirituality, And The Perils Of Universal History, Paper delivered at the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, July 2015 mp3 for download See also Soundcloud   Response by Jorge Daniel Vásquez and Megan Eardley The beginning of Friday’s session was marked by a radical commitment to putting the analysis of religion …

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Foucault 7/13: WEBCAST/LIVESTREAM David Armitage, Adam Tooze, and Jeremy Kessler will discuss Foucault’s seventh lecture series at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978) on Monday, December 7, 2015, at 6:15pm EST. Please watch the livestream  here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by David Armitage, Adam Tooze, and Jeremy Kessler, and the framing …

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La marche de l’histoire. Michel Foucault, France Inter Radio Invité Philippe Artières Historien, chercheur au CNRS Il avait mesuré que l’intervention des intellectuels passait de plus en plus par l’essai bref et le plateau télé et encore n’a-t-il pas connu l’économie du web 2.0. Puisque la discontinuité est de mise, il disait par provocation qu’advenait …

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