Foucault News

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

Niki Kasumi Clements, Sites of the Ascetic Self. John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation, University of Notre Dame Press, 2020 Description Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience …

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Palacios, C. A truly invisible hand: The critical value of Foucauldian irony (2021) Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, 4 (1), pp. 48-72. DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8855219 Open access Abstract Critical theory has long resisted the notion that an “invisible hand” can operate within the real social dynamics of a free market. But despite the most …

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Bandiera, R. Marx, Foucault, and state–corporate harm: a case study of regulatory failure in Australian non-prescription medicine regulation (2021) Crime, Law and Social Change DOI: 10.1007/s10611-021-09953-2 Abstract Risk-based regulation has underpinned Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation for over three decades. However, data consistently demonstrate high rates of non-compliance among non-prescription medicine sponsors, with most …

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Agustin Colombo (UCLouvain, centre CERPhiCO) et Paul Slama (UNamur) ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la troisième séance du séminaire interdisciplinaire “Subjectivité et religion“. Elle aura lieu le jeudi 24 juin 2021, de 15h00 à 17h00 et accueillera Jacob Schmutz (UCLouvain). Il présentera une communication intitulée “Conscience moderne et désobéissance civile. Quelques leçons de la théologie moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles”. Pour participer à cette session, veuillez vous inscrire en ligne. …

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Joynt, C., Rosskama, J. Toward a trans method, or reciprocity as a way of life (2021) Feminist Media Histories, 7 (1), pp. 11-20. DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.11 Abstract It is reductive yet accurate to assert that Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam first met because they are both trans people who make documentary films. While the alignment of …

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Un ouvrage dédié au philosophe Michel Foucault, La Nouvelle République, 14/05/2021 See also this site Publisher’s site Book brochure L’association Le jardin de Michel Foucault à Vendeuvre-du-Poitou vient de publier en avril 2021 un livre intitulé Michel Foucault, Côté jardin, Paroles. Cet ouvrage est un recueil de témoignages de personnes qui l’ont connu à Vendeuvre …

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van der Drift, M. Management and rights amidst plural worlds (2021) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 35 (1), pp. 93-115. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.35.1.0093 Abstract Sylvia Wynter discusses Eurocentric thought as a closed cognitive order. In this article, Mijke van der Drift interrogates this cognitive closure as a style of thought that is intertwined with institutions. By inverting …

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Michel Foucault. Sexuality. The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron. General Editor: François Ewald. English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Graham Burchell. Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Columbia University Press 2021 Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published in 1976—exerts a vast influence across …

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Foucault Studies, Number 30, June 2021 Articles Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of Solidarity and Friendship in Foucault Liesbeth Schoonheim Avowing Unemployment: Confessional Jobseeker Interviews and Professional CVs Tom Boland The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology Hannah Lyn Venable Book Reviews Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State …

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Foucault, les Pères, le sexe. Autour des Aveux de la chair Edited by Philippe Büttgen, Philippe Chevallier, Agustín Colombo, Arianna Sforzini, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021 Description in English below Flyer in English Les aveux de La chair, dernier volume de l’Histoire de la sexualité, fruit de près de huit ans de travail sur le …

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