'You are invited to see the Earth turn': In 1851, a French physicist showed people the Earth was rotating using just a giant swinging pendulum

Léon Foucault conducted a groundbreaking experiment that visually confirmed the rotation of the Earth. By observing a ...
In These Times

Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Failures of the Left

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 ...

Quote of the day by Michel Foucault: 'Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are' and how every self-help guru got it wrong

In 1971, during a televised debate hosted by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, French philosopher Michel Foucault sat across ...
Wired

Jan. 7, 1851: Foucault Gets the Swing of Things

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 ...
Popular Mechanics

175 Years Ago, He Set Out to Prove the Earth Was Spinning. His Experiment Took the World By Storm.

175 years ago, the Foucault pendulum experiment caused a nationwide public science fad. Most people understood what scientists knew about the universe, but Foucault made it feel real. Science was ...
The Nation

The Other Foucault

Michel Foucault (center) with Jean Genet (right) at a Paris demonstration in the wake of the killing of Mohamed Diab by police in 1972. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...
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Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

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