Foucault News

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

Interview/podcast Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth, Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, New Books Network, Nov 1, 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. 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 …

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Hannah Lyn Venable – Madness in Experience and History. Interview with Giorgi Vachnadze on the Silence of Savoir channel, October 28 2023 Professor Venable is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Mary. Dr. Venable specializes in History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (including Phenomenology, Post-modernism, Recent French philosophy), Aesthetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Psychology and …

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A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott’s ‘Telling Silence’ (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis), Acid Horizon podcast, 9 October 2023. Charles E. Scott, Telling Silence. Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences, SUNY Press, November 2023. Description In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in …

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Gabriel Rockhill, The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback, Monthly Review, 1 June 2023 Like any major social and political movement, the events referred to as those of May 1968 have multiple different aspects and internal contradictions. They cannot be easily summed up in terms of a …

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Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International Educators, Jun …

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Inédit de Michel Foucault : le discours philosophique, Radio France, podcast Samedi 13 mai 2023 Dans un texte inédit, le penseur français fait l’histoire du discours philosophique et l’aborde avec un regard critique. Avec Judith Revel Philosophe, traductrice, professeure des universités au département de philosophie de l’université Paris Nanterre, spécialiste de Michel Foucault et directrice …

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Gordana Fontana-Giusti: Foucault and the language of architects, Listen Notes, April 20, 2023. Podcast. In Season 2, Episode 28 of A is for Architecture, Gordana Fontana Giusti discusses her 2013 book, Foucault for Architects, published by Routledge, as part of the Thinkers for Architects series. Gordana is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Kent School of Architecture …

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