Foucault News

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

Jacques Chancel interviews Foucault (audio 1975) 10 mars 1975 Jacques CHANCEL s’entretient avec le philosophe, professeur au Collège de France, Michel FOUCAULT. Emission diffusée le 10 mars 1975 sur France Inter. – Générique début – A 00’57 : sur le savoir, a toujours été dans le savoir. Mai 1968 a été une révolte contre l’interdiction …

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Duschinsky, Robbie and Leon Antonio Rocha (Eds.) Foucault, the Family and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Foucault, the Family and Politics presents a rich account of the politics and power relations that organize family and intimate life, advancing with and beyond Foucault’s classic and more recently-published writings. The obligation to attend school, to go to work, …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the following: ‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21…

Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Ce livre paraîtra le 10 octobre 2013. Amazon France page Frédéric Gros Foucault et « la société punitive » Compte rendu sur le site Cairn.info Résumé Foucault prononce en 1973 un cours au Collège de France intitulé « La société …

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Philosophers: Debates and Dialogues A series by Fons Elders Released by Icarus Films, New York Update September 2025. This series is no longer available from Icarus films and the link above is to their page as it is archived on the Wayback Machine. The Chomsky Foucault debate can now be found on YouTube however Text …

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In French with no subtitles. From a series titled Le Temps des Philosophes. 4. Philosophie et Vérité. Entretien entre Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault, Dina Dreyfus and Alain Badiou. The original program was produced by Radio-Télévision scolaire in 1965 and released on VHS in 1993 by the Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique. …

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Michel Foucault, The Mesh of Power, Viewpoint Magazine, 2 (September 2012). Translated by Christopher Chitty Full article online We will attempt to proceed towards an analysis of the concept of power. I am not the first, far from it, to attempt to skirt around the Freudian schema that pits instinct against suppression [répression], instinct against …

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Michel Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature. Édité et présenté par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville et Judith Revel. Paris: Editions EHESS. mars 2013 Publisher’s page Michel Foucault entretient avec la littérature une relation complexe, critique, stratégique. Les documents inédits qui composent le présent volume en témoignent magnifiquement.. Sade, Cervantes, Artaud, Shakespeare….Le …

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Michel Foucault (2013) Speech begins after death, University of Minnesota Press. $24.95 cloth/jacket ISBN 978-0-8166-8320-8 96 pages, 5 x 8, March 2013 In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing …

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