Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Ole B. Jensen, New ‘Foucauldian Boomerangs’: Drones and Urban Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 14, No 1 (2016) Full PDF Abstract This paper uses the metaphor of ‘boomerangs’ articulated by Michel Foucault to discuss the potential for drones to become the ‘next layer’ of urban surveillance in our cities. Like earlier Western technologies and techniques …

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Katherine Bischoping, Selom Chapman-Nyaho, Rebecca Raby, Linking Visuality to Justice through International Cover Designs for Discipline and Punish, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Visualizing Justice (IJR) Volume 5: Winter 2016, pp. 180-214 Full PDF Abstract: Discipline and Punish revolves around the demise of a brief impulse to develop a juridical subject. We employ cover …

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A review of Projective Ecologies, edited by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister. 2014. Second edition 2020. ISBN: 1940291127. ACTAR, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 314 pages. Review by Anne Trumble Several months ago, I reviewed Landscape Imagination, a collection of essays by James Corner, a professor at University of Pennsylvania and the landscape architect who designed New …

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Helena Ostrowicka, On the Reception of Foucauldian Ideas in Pedagogical Research, European Educational Research Journal, September 2011 vol. 10 no. 3 433-444 doi: 10.2304/eerj.2011.10.3.433 Full text Abstract The article is devoted to the presentation of the reception of Foucauldian ideas in Polish pedagogical research over the past twenty years. This movement of thought is described …

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McGowan, Deirdre (2015) The Normalising Power of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945 – 2010. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Abstract Marriage law is often conceptualised as an instrument of power that illegitimately imposes the will of the State on its citizens. Paradoxically, marriage law is also offered as a route to liberation. …

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Deirdre McGowan, “Governed by marriage law: An Irish genealogy” (2016) 25 Social and Legal Studies 311. doi: 10.1177/0964663915614110 Abstract: Marriage law links the private and the political, connecting the aspirations of individuals to the regulatory ambitions of the state. Marriage has significant social and cultural importance, but the assumptions of stability and care it entails …

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VII Jornadas Debates Actuales de la Teoría Política Contemporánea El neoliberalismo a debate: hacia una genealogía del presente 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2016 Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Campus Miguelete, Universidad Nacional de San Martín Presentación: ¿Cómo interpretar el neoliberalismo? Más allá de cualquier salida fácil que lo reduzca a una doctrina económica o …

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Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Monetary Conformation of the Corporate Governmentality II The Monetary System and the Privatization Process, Journal of Governance and Regulation, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2016, 75-90 Abstract The global governance of large corporations or corporate governmentality changed over time through the penetration of the economy in all aspects of society but which has …

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Colin Koopman, Historicizing the Critique of Power 20th March 2015 | 14:15 – 15:00 Conference paper, audio podcast on the Voice Republic site Colin Koopman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also 2014-15 Humanities Research Fellow and 2015-16 Wulf Professor of Humanities. He has published widely on genealogy, …

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