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 ...
In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to assume the directorship of the Centre Français in Warsaw. Less than a year later, he abruptly left the country. According to a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michel Foucault, left, and pianist Michael Stoneman in Death Valley in June 1975, from the book "The Last Man Takes LSD." (David ...
The relationship between the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Marxism has been contentious since the 1970s. Notably, Jean-Paul Sartre accused Foucault’s thought as being “the last barricade the ...
Michel Foucault wasn’t just a philosopher — he was a disruptor. In this video, we break down his key concepts like power/knowledge, archaeology, and genealogy to reveal how Foucault saw truth as ...
How have we been governed, regulated, ruled? What systems of knowledge and power have emerged over time, and with what consequences for individuals and populations? Lawrence Grossberg describes four ...