The work of the late French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault has had a tremendous impact on progressive and leftist movements in the United States and around the world in recent decades ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

There is no critic in the world more cited than the Postmodernist Michel Foucault. Research suggests that the theorist has ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. The late Michel Foucault was among ...

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 ...

News that Michel Foucault molested children recalls revelations that Hulk Hogan used steroids. The surprise comes only in response to surprise. “Young children were running after Foucault saying, ...

O ne day in the mid-1940s, in the quiet French city of Poitiers, the Surrealist painter André Masson was invited by his doctor to take a look at a curious medical specimen: the preserved corpse of a ...

A replica of Foucault's famous experiment at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnica in Milan, Italy Wikimedia Commons On February 3, 1851, a 32-year-old Frenchman—who’d dropped out of medical ...

Jeffrey Foucault had the late British poet Basil Bunting’s Advice to Young Poets tacked up on his desk and followed most of its treads, such as “Compose aloud” and “Put your poem away till you forget ...