Foucault News

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

Call for papers Rencontres Doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 11-13 septembre 2019 IMEC – Caen L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose pour la 8ème année une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est comme les années précédentes de mettre en relation, …

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Janaka Siyambalapitiya, Xu Zhangand Xiaobing Liu, Is governmentality the missing link for greening the economic growth? (2018) Sustainability (Switzerland), 10 (11), art. no. 4204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114204 Abstract The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the green growth research …

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Cleland, J., Cashmore, E. Nothing Will Be the Same Again After the Stade de France Attack: Reflections of Association Football Fans on Terrorism, Security and Surveillance (2018) Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 42 (6), pp. 454-469. DOI: 10.1177/0193723518797028 Abstract Following the attempted terrorist attack at the friendly match between France and Germany at the …

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Bert, Jean-François. « Michel Foucault défenseur de l’ethnologie. « La magie – le fait social total », une leçon inédite des années 1950 », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 281-303. DOI: 10.3917/zil.002.0281 Les milliers de pages de notes manuscrites de Michel Foucault, conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), donnent à voir …

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Foucault, Michel. « La magie – le fait social total », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 305-326. DOI 10.3917/zil.002.0305 – Rapport à la société – Rapport à la technique qu’elle imite. – Rapport à la société D’un côté opposition à la société – Ségrégation du magicien dans la société, ce qui n’arrive pas …

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Grohmangrohman, S. Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics (2018) HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8 (3), pp. 506-521. DOI: 10.1086/701113 Open access Abstract Anthropologists working on ethics have emphasized the importance of freedom for the becoming of ethical subjects. While some have therefore aligned themselves with the later work …

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Antonio Pele, La méditation : le nouvel « esprit » du capitalisme ? , The Conversation, February 12, 2019 Abstract Je souhaiterais identifier les rapports entre la méditation et nos sociétés actuelles. Je ne cherche pas à critiquer la méditation mais à comprendre les raisons de l’enthousiasme qu’elle génère aujourd’hui. Comment cette pratique, qui fut …

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New Means of Workplace Surveillance From the Gaze of the Supervisor to the Digitalization of Employees by Ivan Manokha, Monthly Review An Independent Socialist Magazine (Feb 01, 2019) Introduction In the last twenty years or so, workplace surveillance has attracted a great deal of attention from academics and the mainstream media.1 This is explained by …

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Josephine Berry, Art and (Bare) Life, A Biopolitical Inquiry. Sternberg Press, 2018 December 2018, English 14 x 22.5 cm, 328 pages, 45 color ill., softcover ISBN 978-3-95679-393-6 €25.00 Book launch at Imperial College London Art and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Inquiry analyzes modern and contemporary art’s drive to blur with life, and how this is …

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Ippolito, J. Reading Interventionist Research in Two Urban Elementary Schools Through a Discursive Lens (2018) Urban Education, 53 (10), pp. 1265-1290. DOI: 10.1177/0042085915613550 Abstract In this study, I reframe the debate on minority parents and their children’s educators by moving beyond concerns around student academic achievement and toward the quality of relationships among adult stakeholders. …

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