If Foucault and other poststructuralist thinkers are right (and I believe they are), one is never outside of countervailing power relations in society, which means that, ineluctably, one is always ...
Guillaume Bailliart in an earlier performance of The Disorder of Discourse (all images © Marc Domage, courtesy French Institute Alliance Française) This article is ...
If you’re looking for Daniel Rodriguez-Navas, you’ll find him firmly at the intersection of ethics and the history of philosophy. You’ll also find him in an office at The New School of Social Research ...
Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories as ...
In ‘Truth and power’ (1980), Michel Foucault elaborates on different kinds of intellectuals – the ‘universal’ and ‘specific’ intellectual, respectively – in the context of the question regarding the ...
Michel Foucault (center), not far from André Glucksmann, at the Technical University of Berlin, West Berlin, 1978. RAYMOND DEPARDON/MAGNUM PHOTOS But it is indeed an essay that has emerged from the ...
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 ...
On the centenary year of Michel Foucault’s birth, Artificial Intelligence has not merely vindicated his most famous provocation but it has also exposed its limits. The ‘death of the author’ now ...