Foucault News

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

The Social Theory Applied blog started out as a theory and educational research blog but as Mark Murphy, who runs the blog, explains it has recently broadened its focus Please note that the remit of the site is to become broader than its original focus on educational research – now to cover the field of social …

Continue reading

Peter Johnson has just launched a new site on Foucault’s notion of Heterotopia titled Heterotopian Studies. Update August 2025. This site is now only available on the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20191224045207/http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/ The site includes definitions, resources, discussions and a blog. The author notes: This web site is devoted to Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia. Foucault outlines …

Continue reading