Foucault News

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

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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Michel Foucault: The rights and duties of international citizenship (2015) The front page of the Open Democracy Site, 14 November 2015 Also includes links to the following items: Michel Foucault “The refugee problem is a presage of the great migrations of the twenty first century”, 1979. Translated by Colin Gordon. Colin Gordon, The drowned and …

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Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault 06 oct. 1982, Antenne 2, Site l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel présentateur Christine Ockrent Christine OCKRENT interviewe l’actrice Simone SIGNORET et le philosophe Michel FOUCAULT sur la situation en Pologne, où le syndicat Solidarité vient d’être interdit par le gouvernement. – Simone SIGNORET, qui porte un badge du syndicat polonais “Solidarité”, …

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André Glucksmann par Michel Foucault, Le Nouvel Observateur Le philosophe des “Maîtres penseurs” est mort à 78 ans. Celui de “Surveiller et punir” l’avait lu, pour “le Nouvel Observateur”, en 1977. Voici son texte, dans son intégralité. Article de Michel Foucault sur “les Maîtres penseurs”, paru dans “le Nouvel Observateur” du 9 mai 1977 La …

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Rosie Smith, Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’. The Sociological Imagination, 2015 Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lecture series ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ is a wonderfully insightful book. It provides a detailed examination of the role of truth-telling throughout antiquity and its development into a key stone of contemporary European juridical proceedings. Specifically, Foucault investigates, within the discourse of …

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Editor: Palgrave Macmillan have kindly offered a 30% discount to readers of Foucault News on books in their Foucault collection Works included in this collection are The Punitive Society and Michel Foucault: A Research Companion The full price on the latter work has been reduced since I last posted on this. I will repost again …

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September 2023: See updated details on Progressive Geographies From: History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online | Progressive Geographies History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley is available online. I’d been looking for copies …

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Editor: Reblogged from Stuart Elden’s site Progressive Geographies Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which underpin the State? A: It is true …

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