Charlie Says

Manson Family drama place society's treatment of guilt and contrition in the dock

"...criminal justice system, Discipline and Punish, French philosopher Michel Foucault saw three forces at play: the need of society..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Homophilic Bibliophile

Homo up your house with these gay history titles

"...functioned as an urtext for so many like Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (Vintage, 1990). Although,..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

Bizarre Talents

The strange road to success of former Austin bookseller Lynn Bender.

"...flocking to Europa asking Bender why he couldn't stock Foucault in English if he was stocking Foucault in French...."

March 10, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

History of the World as the Center of the Universe

In his History of the World as the Center of the Universe, Stephen Pruitt proves that he is gifted not only as a lighting designer, but as a writer and performer who can tell an interesting anecdote or formulate a unique view of just how the various facets of the universe fit together.

"...chair, either. The chunk of monologue where Pruitt explores Foucault's pendulum ... well, rather than give it away entirely,..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Papillon

New adaptation of Henri Charrière's autobiographical novel of life on Devil's Island

"...And on and on. Michel Foucault would be smirking in his grave at the thought..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Good Eye: Knees, Please

Man up and take off your pants

"...went out in public wearing something like that." (Paging Foucault!) A female friend agreed, not disapprovingly. She dubbed the..."

June 27, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009

The loss of preeminent queer scholar will be felt.

"...Because, to echo a familiar refrain spoken about Michel Foucault by David Halperin, as far as I'm concerned she..."

April 14, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Book Reviews

Recent Titles Reviewed

"...blunder in this section, however, when he cites Michel Foucault's all-seeing panopticon as a model for these literary shamuses..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Books Feature

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

"...blunder in this section, however, when he cites Michel Foucault's all-seeing panopticon as a model for these literary shamuses..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Review

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 13-19

"...LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran philosopher and writer Michel Foucault aspired to open up his readers' minds with novel..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Travis Stevens Gets Under the Skin of A Wounded Fawn

How his new art-horror interweaves myths and failed justice

"...AC: It's reminiscent of [French philosopher Michel Foucault's book] Discipline and Punish, and his idea that society's..."

Dec. 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Best Albums of 2018 by Genre

Hip-hop, metal, pop, and more picks from our critics

"...7) Jeffrey Foucault, Blood Brothers..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Most Dangerous Man in Austin?

Cody Wilson's day-to-day life is pretty routine. But the product he's selling threatens to make gun control laws obsolete.

"...progressed after reading Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Michel Foucault. "Definitely by the time I was halfway through high..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

DVDanger: 'Would You Rather'

Rich people are weird, but not as weird as what people do to be rich

"...the original House on Haunted Hill here.) Frankly, Michel Foucault would have a field day analyzing his part. The..."

July 16, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Scum'

What's scarier than Ray Winstone? A young Ray Winstone.

"...Dean as jaundiced screw Duke. It sums up Michel Foucault's seminal treatise on power, Discipline and Punish, over a..."

June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Politics Gift Guide

Slip into something more comfortable with Perry, Freud, and more

"...and many others, including "Most Obscure" figures like Michel Foucault or Søren Kierkegaard, are also available. And if puppets..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Encryption'

Stephen Pruitt wants you to tune in to the mystery of sounds in the dark

"...your mind, as when, to illustrate the principles of Foucault, he suspended himself upside-down and became a human pendulum...."

July 15, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Dead and Alive on the Fourth of July

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...Michel Foucault is dead. Groucho Marx is not...."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Summer Group Show

The 'Summer Group Show' at Lora Reynolds Gallery is a departure from the strong exhibits it has mounted so far, a gap in the norm that suggests the pressures galleries are under to produce cohesive exhibits

"...really count. Looking at a broader cultural phenomenon, Michel Foucault called these imagined breaks in reality dystopias. He defined..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Curling Up

Gift guide

"...cultural melange of the late 1980s and early Nineties (Foucault! Baudrillard! ACT UP! The Blonde Ambition Tour!) would do..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet

"Like any expert in a marginalized genre that's gone mainstream, Neate can be tedious," writes John Freeman. "But he also has a knack for sussing out the cutting edge of the hip-hop scene."

"...Along the way he drops references to everyone from Foucault to the Fugees...."

Aug. 6, 2004 Books Review by John Freeman

Requiem for Tesla

Local mavericks Rude Mechanicals have plundered biographies and scientific history to give us the whole story of maverick inventor Nikola Tesla, and their production Requiem for Tesla, with its unnervingly choreographed lights, arresting video, beautiful period costumes, original score on theremin, strange dance numbers, and working Tesla coil, literally crackles with current.

"...do? Also, in the dream, the dog is quoting Foucault and Brecht and Freud and holding forth about its..."

March 2, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Open Wide and Say AAAHHH!!!: Holler, Get It Out

Local Arts Reviews

"...together while using the audience as a mirror, quoting Foucault while wearing a game show-hostess dress, or doing a..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Coffeetable Books

Remembrance of Things Past

"...honesty, deserves. But, after all, this is Playboy, not Foucault. The unintentionally funniest bits are about the Eighties, which..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Moore Is Better

"...death of the Author, or more precisely, authorship. Michel Foucault would have been proud...."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Review by Marion Winik