Foucault News

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

Interview on Radio France Culture, 24 Nov 2012. Cours de Michel Foucault (édition de Michel Senellart) Update: August 2025. Link is no longer available Invité : Michel Senellart, Professeur de Philosophie politique à l’ENS de Lyon à propos de l’édition du Cours de Michel Foucault “Du gouvernement des vivants“, cours  au Collège de France en …

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Text below posted on youtube . See also the European Graduate school site Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about inconsistencies in Foucault’s critique of the symbolic. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses the unity of the symbolic and biological, a new theory of power outside the model of language, the genealogy of relations of …

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An audio version of the Roundtable “Foucault and the Courage of Truth” that took place at Goldsmiths College, January 13, 2012  is now available on the m/f website Speakers were: Professor Arnold I. Davidson (University of Chicago) Judith Revel (Université Paris 1 Pathéon-Sorbonne) Miguel De Beistegui (University of Warwick) Orazio Irrera (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot)

La pensée française s’exporte-t-elle bien ? August 2012 Audio podcast from LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE by podcast@radiofrance.com durée : 00:58:46 – LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE – par : Philippe Petit – Dans le cadre de la semaine du Livre EN DIRECT – invités : Monique Labrune, Gilles BOËTSCH, François GEZE, François …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, at least in the first volume of Homo Sacer, on…

Le sexe sous tous ses rapports 4/4: L’émergence de la sexualité selon Michel Foucault Adèle Van Reeth reçoit Arnold Davidson pour évoquer l’émergence de la sexualité selon Michel Foucault. Radio interview on France Culture broadcast 31 May 2012 Update August 2025. The link above is to the Wayback Machine, which preserves the text but not …

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