Foucault News

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

Marc Djaballah, Foucault, trente ans après, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 2016/1 (Tome 141) Résumé Français Revue critique d’un ensemble d’ouvrages éditant des textes de Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ou portant sur son oeuvre, parus en français à l’occasion du trentième anniversaire de sa mort. English Michel Foucault after Thirty Years Critical review …

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Jodi Sita and Marco Amati, The Panopticons are coming! And they’ll know when we think the grass is greener, The Conversation, August 22, 2016 Eye-tracking technology helps us understand how people interact with their environment. This can improve policy and design, but can also be a tool for surveillance and control. Extract […]we asked park …

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Gildas Salmon Foucault et la généalogie de la sociologie Archives de Philosophie, 2016/1 (Tome 79) Résumé Français Quarante ans après Surveiller et punir, La Société punitive montre qu’avec le concept de discipline, Foucault entendait proposer une généalogie de la sociologie, et en particulier du programme durkheimien. Refusant de faire du droit la mise en forme …

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Arnault Skornicki,La grande soif de l’etat. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2016. 288 pages, 20 € ISBN 978-2-35096-116-3 Michel Foucault n’est pas réputé être un théoricien de l’État, mais un penseur du pouvoir partout où il se trouve (dans l’école, la prison, la caserne, l’usine, l’hôpital). Et pourtant, il apparaît qu’il …

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Frieder Vogelmann, Reading Practices: How to read Foucault?, Krisis, Journal for Contemporary Philosophy Issue 2, 2016 https://krisis.eu/article/view/38874 Review of: Daniel Zamora and Michael Z. Behrent, Eds. (2016), Foucault and Neoliberalism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 152 pages; and Mitchel Dean and Kaspar Villadsen (2016), State Phobia and Civil Society. The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault. Stanford: Stanford …

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Ron Purser and Edwin Ng, Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype, Part One Huffington Post, March 22, 2016 Extract Michel Foucault made an astute observation: “You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked.” Hopefully, management science scholar-practitioners promoting corporate mindfulness …

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Robin Rymarczuk, The Heterotopia of Facebook, Philosophy Now, Issue 107, August/September 2016 Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University room-mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. What started out as an on-campus online ‘hot or not’ tool resulted in …

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Ott, J.C. Perceptions of the Nature of Happiness: Cultural, but Related to the Dynamics of the Human Mind and the Gratification of General Needs: Review of Laura Hyman: Happiness; Understanding Narratives and Discourses, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-137-32152-7 (2016) Journal of Happiness Studies, pp. 1-7. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10902-016-9720-6 Abstract In her book ‘Happiness’ …

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Kojiro FUJITA, Comment la philosophie de Foucault voyage-t-elle ? Ici et ailleurs, Association pour une Philosophie Nomade, 14 juin 2016 Introduction La question qui m’intéresse particulièrement est : « comment la philosophie, les théories et les concepts voyagent-ils ? » ; plus précisément, « la philosophie, les théories et les concepts occidentaux peuvent-ils se transférer …

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Sam Kriss, Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests – The Atlantic SEP 9, 2016 What it means to believe that “real” trees no longer exist. Something tremendous is happening; over the last few weeks, without too many of its globe-headed detractors noticing, a surprisingly vast community on the tattered fringes of intellectual orthodoxy …

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