Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales – forthcoming in May 2015

Foucault’s 1971-72 course at the Collège de France, Théories et institutions pénales, is forthcoming in May 2015. This is the last of the courses to be published, though I understand some courses from elsewhere may appear in the future. The … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 21: a second book on The Birth of Power

There have been some major changes to the project since the last update. I’ve held back this post until the situation was clearer. When I initially proposed the Foucault’s Last Decade book to Polity, it was to have an opening … Continue reading

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Edmund White’s memories of Michel Foucault

Edmund White’s memories of Michel Foucault in The Telegraph. Not normally a paper I’d link to, but… I have White’s book on Jean Genet and his novel Caracole in my ‘to read’ piles…

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Books received – Peck and Theodore, Mauriac, Krell, Drischler

Books received – Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore’s Fast Policy in recompense for review work; another volume of Claude Mauriac’s memoirs for the Foucault project; David Farrell Krell’s Phantoms of the Other to review; and two papers on Leibniz sent by … Continue reading

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Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus. This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful … Continue reading

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Books received – GIA, Derrida, Vora, Lorimer, le Doeuff, Braver, Transactions

  Publications by the Groupe Information Asiles and Groupe Information Santé; Derrida’s Cinders, Vora’s Life Support, Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene, le Doeuff’s Hipparchia’s Choice; Braver’s Heidegger; and the new issue of Transactions. The UMP books and the Braver are … Continue reading

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Books received – journals, Foucault-related books, and New Geographies 06

The last of the books and journals received while I was away in Melbourne. Liberté, Libertés is a collection by Robert Badinter with a preface by François Mitterand. Foucault discusses this in a 1977 interview which was published shortly after his death (and … Continue reading

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The Uncollected Foucault – further updates to texts available and requests

This site’s list of Foucault’s uncollected notes, lectures and interviews has been updated again. One which took a bit of locating was a text supposedly under the title ‘Pour la défense libre’, prepared in late 1979 for a 1980 meeting of lawyers.  The … Continue reading

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“Foucault insults the police”, photo from 1972

“Foucault insults the police”, photograph by Elie Kagan from 17 January 1972, in Michel Foucault – Une journée particulière. It seems this photo was taken only moments after a much more famous one with Foucault, Deleuze and Sartre – such as appears here. The book … Continue reading

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Books received – Foucault project

Some more books for the Foucault work, including some for reference which I’ve read before, but also some others that came out recently.  

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