Foucault News

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

Dolly Jørgensen, Rethinking rewilding (2015) Geoforum, 65, pp. 482-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.016 Abstract The term ‘rewilding’ sounds as if it should have a straightforward meaning ‘to make wild again’. But in truth the term has a complex history and a host of meanings have been ascribed to it. Rewilding as a specific scientific term has its beginnings …

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Beer, D. The social power of algorithms (2016) Information Communication and Society, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1216147 Abstract This article explores the questions associated with what might be thought of as the social power of algorithms. The article, which introduces a special issue on the same topic, begins by reflecting on how we …

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Daniele Lorenzini, Pierre Hadot (1922/2010) et Michel Foucault (1926/1984) – La culture de soiLa philosophie, un art de vivre, Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences Humaines, 2016/6 (N° 43) Premières lignes Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ? En posant cette question, dans un article intitulé « La philosophie est-elle un luxe ? », Pierre Hadot remarque que …

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Jiménez, M.A., Valle, A.M. Pedagogy and the care of the self: A reading from Foucault (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-8. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204736 Abstract This text reflects about the need to consider an additional institutional alternative that matters, not only to the ones that advocate for pedagogy, but also to all …

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Revisiting The History of Sexuality: Thinking with Foucault at Forty, Guest edited by Howard Chiang, Cultural History, Volume 5, Issue 2, October, 2016 Articles Revisiting Foucault: Thinking with The History of Sexuality at Forty Howard Chiang ‘The Party with God’: Michel Foucault, the Gay Left and the Work of Theory Steven Maynard Sex and Truth: …

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Interview with Stuart Elden by Dave O’Brien (podcast) on the New Books Network In relation to Foucault’s Last Decade Polity Press 2016 Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity on his thought? In Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) Stuart Elden, …

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Jason Read, Cutting Off Heads. A review of Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet (Zed Books: London, 2016) Jacques Bidet’s Foucault with Marx represents yet another contribution to the eventual overcoming of an academic skirmish between advocates of Foucault and Marx, itself a smaller conflict in the larger battle of postmodernism versus Marxism. The perspective …

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Jacques Bidet, Foucault with Marx Translated by Steven Corcoran, Zed Books, 2016 The first synthesis of Foucauldian and Marxist theory, constituting a twenty-first century paradigm shift in political and philosophical thinking. With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world’s two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, …

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Frieder Vogelmann, Foucault lesen, Springer, 2017 Dieses Springer essential stellt einen systematischen und philosophischen Lektürevorschlag zur Diskussion: Systematisch werden Foucaults Schriften von seiner methodologischen Perspektive her als nihilistische, nominalistische und historizistische Analyse von Praktiken und den in ihnen produzierten Wirklichkeiten entlang der drei Achsen des Wissens, der Macht und der Selbstverhältnisse gedeutet. Die Konsequenzen dieser …

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