Question 1: Are Foucault's analyses of actualité useful to understand the movement of societies? In which fields does it seem to you it that they should be renewed, readjusted, continued? Answer 1: ...
Experts have taken over our lives. They rule us not so much through law as through constant, pervasive coercion, exercised through institutions outside the state. Setting themselves up as secular ...
The specter of Foucault has much to teach us – if we are able to listen. In his 1979 interview Foucault addresses the question: What is “the origin” of the refugee crisis that killed thousands of ...
Queensland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Today, who could thrive without knowing how to “control the narrative”, call out a “social construct” or ...
French philosopher Michael Foucault in a studio during a radio broadcast in Paris, France, on December 16, 1981. AP Photo/Duclos Prior to his death in 1984, the French philosopher Michel Foucault ...
In Chu T’ien-wen’s 1994 novel Notes of a Desolate Man, the narrator recalls the death a decade earlier of French philosopher Michel Foucault: The unfinished history of sexual consciousness stopped ...
Michel Foucault (center) with Jean Genet (right) at a Paris demonstration in the wake of the killing of Mohamed Diab by police in 1972. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...