Foucault pendulums are a popular feature in science museums around the world. This one hangs out in the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Photo: sylvar/Flickr __1851: __ Léon ...
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 ...
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 ...
You write about Foucault as if he's not worth reading because the political consequences of some of his ideas have been pernicious. It's not that such consequences should be ignored - I think the ...