Michel Foucault made it clear that he wanted his unpublished work to stay in the archives. Scott McLemee considers how it reached escape velocity. Franz Kafka left explicit directions concerning the ...

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 ...

There’s an interesting interview over at Jacobin Magazine of Daniel Zamora, who has written a book about Michel Foucault’s fascination with neoliberalism in the latter stages of his intellectual life.

Every time someone argues that truth is a social construction, that science reflects power, that merit conceals privilege, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly spots this tidbit in a recent interview with President George Bush: "I am the very last President not to really have to worry about YouTube" while campaigning for ...

We cannot understand the world around us without a sophisticated understanding of the complex but intimate relationship between knowledge and power. One of the most influential philosophers of the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hi, I'm Alan Saunders, and this week The Philosopher's Zone is in a heady place: Paris ...

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 ...