Foucault News

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

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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Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Philosophie du présent / Foucault inédit », 2013 (168 pages, ISBN 978-2-7116-2509-3, 14€). Édition établie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction et apparat critique par L. Cremonesi, A.I. Davidson, O. Irrera, D. Lorenzini, M. Tazzioli. En novembre …

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From the Critical Theory blog Eugene Wolters, Listen to Foucault Lecture in English: The Culture of the Self, 27 September 2013 In the following audio recording, Michel Foucault lectures at UC Berkeley in 1983, a year before his death, on the subject “The Culture of the Self.” Foucault starts with a story written by Greek …

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Source Variazioni foucaultiani [Editor: 13 April 2026. Details and links updated.] The translated article can be found here Michel Foucault, “Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur.” Critical Inquiry 47, no. 1 (2020): 121–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48799742. See also Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, “Introduction to Michel Foucault’s ‘Political Spirituality as the Will …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In a previous post, I discussed the summary of a 1972 lecture Foucault gave in Minneapolis, entitled “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”. As far as I am aware the text of the lecture remains in Foucault’s own papers and was never published. It was published in a brief English summary,…