Foucault at 100: Le Nouvel Obs devotes a special issue to the philosopher
Marking the centenary of Michel Foucault's birth, the magazine's Bibliobs section has published a special issue examining how far his ideas anticipated today's surveillance societies.
Le Nouvel Obs has released a hors-série, a special supplement, titled "Michel Foucault, le visionnaire," timed to the centenary of the philosopher's birth being marked this autumn, according to the magazine's Bibliobs section.
Among the pieces included is an essay asking whether Foucault, in works such as Surveiller et punir, foresaw the surveillance tools now shaping the twenty-first century: spyware, facial recognition, social scoring. The piece, published on Bibliobs, weighs whether Foucault's analysis went far enough to account for these technologies, or whether it stopped short.
The source material available does not detail the full contents of the special issue beyond this one essay, nor does it specify a publisher, length or additional contributors. Readers who keep Foucault on their shelves may find the hors-série a point of entry into reconsidering his best-known works a century after his birth.
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