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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Feb 21, 2025 Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s project. Foucault did not question truth itself but what Lorenzini calls “the force of truth,” or how some truth claims are given …
V is for Visible (Michel Foucault) 4 August 2024
In Memoriam: Marcelo Otero (1960-2024) Professor, Department of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), member of the Centre de recherche de Montréal sur les inégalités sociales, les discriminations et les pratiques alternatives de citoyenneté (CRÉMIS), and author of Foucault sociologue. Critique de la raison impure (PUQ, 2021) Specialist in Foucault, whose destabilizing …
Titre complet: SPHEPS 2023-2024 – Cycle des invitations – Etienne BALIBAR, “Structure et politique: les différences anthropologiques” (7 février 2024) Cette vidéo est l’enregistrement de la séance du 7 février 2024 du SPHePS (Séminaire Permanent d’Histoire et de Philosophie du Structuralisme), organisé par Jeanne Etelain et Patrice Maniglier. Le séminaire alterne entre un cycle de …
Michel Foucault | History of Sexuality | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks, Feb 10, 2024 “The History of Sexuality” is Michel Foucault’s examination of the history of discourse about and practice of sexuality over the past three centuries. While sexuality was open in the seventeenth century and relatively closed through the Victorian era, it might …
