Foucault News

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

Five intellectual fashion statements from history that anticipated today’s dark academia trend, The Conversation, UK September 17, 2021 Writing with a quill pen dipped in ink, sitting in the flickering of candlelight in a book-lined study, and vintage tweed paired with knitted jumpers and brogues have all become the height of fashion for autumn 2021. …

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CFP: ‘What?is an?Author?’:?Critical Reflections on Authors and Authority in Critical Security Studies Full details in pdf – For enquiries and expressions of interest?please contact the guest editors Tina Managhan (tmanaghan@brookes.ac.uk) and/or Dan Bulley (dbulley@brookes.ac.uk). csos-full-cfpDownload

Claire Devarrieux, Mort de l’éditeur Bruno Roy, maître de maison, Libération, publié le 20 septembre 2021 Le fondateur des éditions Fata Morgana est mort à 81 ans. Créée en 1966, son entreprise, loin des pratiques parisiennes, a publié Michel Foucault, Jonathan Littell ou Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. Il a publié Emmanuel Levinas et Michel Foucault, Henri Michaux, …

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Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real. Politics for a Post-Pandemic World, Verso, 2021 Review by Geoff Shullenberger in The Washington Examiner The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, The Phenomenological Panopticon and the Historical a Priori: Towards a Genealogy of the Transcendental Subject, Epoché, Issue #37 February 2021 A teleological conception of history begins with Hegel and terminates with Foucault. The following text will not concern itself with Hegel and the Hegelian interpretation of history, it will not be an extensive …

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Krarup, Troels. “Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought.” Theory, Culture & Society 38, no. 5 (September 2021): 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420984528. Abstract Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within the intellectual field of its emergence and (b) explained why it is called ‘archaeology’ and not simply …

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Gollmitzer, M. Journalism ethics with Foucault: Casually employed journalists’ constructions of professional integrity (2021) Journalism DOI: 10.1177/14648849211036301 Abstract This article examines how journalists in non-permanent employment respond to their growing precarity. It is based on in-depth interviews with freelance journalists and interns who find that their working lives increasingly require entrepreneurial efforts. To work towards …

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Yusheng, D. Benjamin’s Reading on Baudelaire: From Foucauldian Genealogy of Ethics (2021) Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 5 (2), pp. 277-290. Abstract In The Use of Pleasure, the second volume of The History of Sexuality published in 1984, Michel Foucault turns to the study of the genealogy of ethics, suggesting that it is possible to read …

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