Foucault News

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

Philosophers DVD Author(s): Moderator and commentator Fons Elders Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault Sir Alfred Ayer and Arne Naess Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefèbvre Sir Karl Popper and Sir John Eccles A series by Fons Elders This DVD is available at a more reasonable price from Fons Elders’ site than from Icarus films. Review by Brian …

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Michel Foucault – Freedom and Knowledge Author(s): Edited by Fons Elders and Lionel Claris Elders Special Productions BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-805600-6-2 NUR 730 You can purchase this book as a paperback or an ebook. An extract can also be found on Lionel Claris’ academia.edu site and you can find a version of Lynne Huffer’s …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoOhhh4aJg I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this here, including the link to the book of the…

Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. Première parution en 1978 Postface d’Éric Fassin Nouvelle édition suivie d’Un scandale au couvent d’Oscar Panizza en 2014, Gallimard, 2014 En 1868 à Paris, rue de l’École-de-Médecine, un homme se donne la mort en laissant à la postérité un manuscrit autobiographique. C’est l’«Histoire d’Alexina B.» que publiera en …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Seuil now have a page up for Foucault’s 1980-81 lecture course Subjectivité et vérité, with a publication date of May 2014. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. No great surprises in the publicity text, except perhaps for the explicit link to Christianity, which makes sense given the content of the…

Timothy Campbell, Adam Sitze (eds.), Biopolitics: A Reader, Duke University Press, 2013 Description This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical—the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body—is not surprising …

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Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil, Éditions Points 05 Décembre 2013, 356 pages. Frédéric Gros, Foucault et « la société punitive », Pouvoirs, 2010/4 n° 135, pp.5-14 Résumé Foucault prononce en 1973 un cours au Collège de France intitulé « La société punitive ». Ce cours, …

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Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Narrated by Simon Prebble Tantor Audio Books Publication Date: 09/23/2013 Running Time: 13 hrs 8 min Editorial comment: This ebook seems to be subject to stringent copyright zone restrictions (available in the US, but not in some other countries). A customer comment on Amazon indicated …

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Michel Foucault. Les Grecs disaient que les paroles avaient des ailes, Manuella Editions, 2013 Présenté sous forme de leporello de huit volets, cet hommage à Michel Foucault est édité à l’initiative du Centre Michel Foucault. Il est composé d’un texte extrait de l’émission “Le corps et ses doubles” du 28 janvier 1963, de la série …

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