In his speech, Foucault eloquently praised the responsibilities of"international citizenship,” which, he claimed, “implies a commitment to rise up against any abuse of power, whoever its ...

The recent publication Confessions of the Flesh, the English translation of a previously unavailable volume of Foucault’s four-part History of Sexuality, offers an opportunity to see his ideas ...

Foucault’s burning insight, that “truth isn’t outside power,” has always disconcerted readers, ... Becoming Foucault also re-examines the case of Blanche Monnier, ...

Foucault's conception of "power/knowledge" proposes the latter two concepts are inextricable. Medical classification and social exclusion, he argued across several works, have long gone hand in hand.

For Foucault, the concept of politics - and that of action in a biopolitical context - radically differs both from the conclusions of Max Weber and his epigones of the nineteenth century, and from ...

The cover of Foucault: The Birth of Power is a photograph of Foucault speaking into a bullhorn at a post-1968 demonstration (the bullhorn is so close to the inclining head of the aged Jean-Paul ...

One in­teresting observation is that the virtual resistance to social me­dia oppression becomes a form of power structure itself. Resul­tantly, it leads to another idea of spaces as a technology of ...

Foucault saw that knowledge and power are the same thing. Social media (and now AI) are seductions to knowledge. They give us the sense that we can become powerful through knowledge and stand in ...

Michel Foucault in 1981. Alexis Duclos/AAP. The forms of power which operate in these institutions have eluded previous political analyses, Foucault claimed.

This paved the way for Foucault’s most influential argument, about the true nature of power. Power, he argued, is much more indirect than the top-down model traditionally taught in civics classes.