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

Ali Laïdi, Les batailles du commerce mondial. Penser la guerre économique avec et contre Michel Foucault, PUF 2021 Résumé À partir des outils conceptuels légués par Michel Foucault, il s’agit d’établir l’existence de la guerre économique, un concept rejeté jusqu’à présent par le monde académique et médiatique. Mais depuis l’élection de Trump en 2016, – …

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Jonathan Fanara, « La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux » : techno-surveillance, Le Mag du Ciné, 6 juin 2021 Review in English Dans La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux (Delcourt/Encrages), Yvan Greenberg, Joe Canlas et Everett Patterson se penchent sur les technologies de surveillance et la manière dont nos données privées sont exploitées …

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Kovačević, V., Malenica, K. Heterotopia and Postmodern Community in the Context of Migration and Relationship Towards Migrants (2021) Italian Sociological Review, 11 (1), pp. 63-86. DOI: 10.13136/isr.v11i1.415 Abstract This work approaches the issue of migration of the Arab population to Europe within the idea of postmodern community and the concept of heterotopia. The social and …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s text on René Magritte, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, was published first in French in 1968 (reprinted in?Dits et écrits?as text 53), and then in a revised and expanded form as a book in 1973. The 1973 book was translated as?This is not a Pipe by James Harkness in…

The Politics of Time: Beyond Spatial Issues of Politics in MOS (Management and Organisation Studies) Discussion starts at 5 minutes 50 ESSEC Business School Panel I: “The Politics of Time: Beyond Spatial Issues of Politics in MOS” Politics and power are much more explored in and through space than time. Is it a Foucauldian legacy? …

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Oxana Timofeeva Rathole: Beyond the Rituals of Handwashing, e-flux, #119 – June 2021 In the spring of 2020, when the World Health Organization formally announced the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and governments began introducing new restrictions, some philosophers looked to Michel Foucault, who created tools for analyzing mass disease in relation to discourses and …

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Life Arts 7/3/2021, OEN, OpEdNews Celebrating the Fourth of July 2021 (REVIEW ESSAY) By Thomas Farrell […] Now, in fairness to Foucault, he turns to the nineteenth-century German classicist and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1901) in his inaugural lecture course (see the “Index of Names” [pages 292-293] for specific page references to Nietzsche) – a source …

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Marco Checchi, The Primacy of Resistance. Power, Opposition and Becoming, Bloomsbury, 2021 Review in Foucault Studies Description What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of resistance as primary. The author proposes a …

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Diaz-Bone, R. Economics of convention meets Canguilhem (2021) Historical Social Research, 46 (1), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.285-311 Abstract »Economics of Convention Meets Canguilhem«. The neopragmatist institutionalist approach of economics of convention (in short EC) still is in need of a conception of health that enables EC to work out a critical standpoint in the analysis …

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