Foucault News

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

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Many thanks to all who commented on Twitter and Facebook on yesterday’s photo – especially Alistair Leadbetter and Rangel Luis Manuel. FRANCE – FEBRUARY 23: Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Pierre Boulez in Paris, France on February 23, 1978. (Photo by Gilbert UZAN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) From left to right,…

Dianna Taylor, Sexual Violence and Humiliation. A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective, Routledge, 2019 Review in Foucault Studies Description This book presents humiliation as a key harm of sexual violence against women, showing that humiliation manifests within the relation of self to itself, and that Foucault’s critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist conceptualization and countering of sexual …

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Lance Wheatley (2019) Foucault’s concepts of structure … and agency?: A critical realist critique, Journal of Critical Realism, 18:1, 18-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2019.1572941 ABSTRACT What is the relationship between structure and agency? French philosopher Michel Foucault weighed in on this question, and I argue that some of his writings indicate that he held views that were strongly structuralist. If …

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L’épistémologie historique. Histoire et méthodes Sous la direction de Jean-François Braunstein, Iván Moya Diez, Matteo Vagelli, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019 Qu’est-ce que l’« épistémologie historique » ? À cette question ce volume répond en esquissant le portrait d’un Janus bifrons, dont l’une des faces est tournée vers le « style français » traditionnel en …

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Conference at Harvard University on Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh 5 December 2019 In February 2018, the fourth and final volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality project—Confessions of the Flesh—was published for the first time in French by Éditions Gallimard. This is an extraordinary publishing event since the book was not supposed to have …

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Foucault franco-allemand : lectures actuelles en dialogue 14 octobre 2019 11h-19h Journée organisée par le CEVIPOF, l’Ecole docorale de Sciences po et le Centre Michel Foucault. 11h-13h : Panel 1 : Current work by doctoral students « Foucault’s moral monsters: gender and the reversal of penal norms » Amélie Bescont, Sciences Po, CEVIPOF « Autonomy, …

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Michael, K.S. Wearing your heart on your sleeve: the surveillance of women’s souls in evangelical Christian modesty culture (2018) Feminist Media Studies, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1490915 Abstract A few years ago, a rash of online debates over whether Christian women should wear yoga pants spread across white evangelical blogs and social media. …

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Michael Clarke, Governmentality and the politics of exclusion in Xinjiang, East Asia Forum: Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, 17 September 2019 China is undertaking a program of mass incarceration of the Uyghur population in its far north-western province of Xinjiang (East Turkestan to Uyghurs) in a system of region-wide …

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Hay, J. The automated states, automated government, and self-automation of the ‘smart’ appliance: three questions about refrigerators (2018) Media International Australia, 166 (1), pp. 57-69. DOI: 10.1177/1329878X17739014 Abstract This essay considers the automation of the everyday through ‘smart’ domestic appliance, specifically the current regime of smart refrigerators. The essay revisits and rethinks perspectives about media …

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