Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025 thanks to Foucault News for the link What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of … Continue reading

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Books received – Denman, Jakobson, Harari, Derrida, Foucault, Fischer-Jørgensen

Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control, second-hand copies of Roman Jakobson, Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning, Josué V. Harari, Scenarios of the Imaginary, Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Trends in Phonological Theory: A Historical Introduction, and … Continue reading

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CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026

CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026 Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique … Continue reading

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CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

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CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard update October 2025: the database is now available. Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued … Continue reading

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Eugenio Donato and “The Structuralist Controversy” conference – proceedings, recordings, Foucault and Flaubert

The 18-21 October 1966 Baltimore conference on structuralism has long been recognised as important for the reception of French theory in the United States. Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Pierre Vernant were some of … Continue reading

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Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025)

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025) (via Foucault News) This issue of Foucault Studies is the first to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/foucault-studies/. The journal retains its full intellectual independence and keeps publishing according to a diamond open access … Continue reading

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading

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“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading

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