Foucault News

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

Tomassini, L., Lamond, I., Burrai, E. Global Citizenship & Parrhesia in Small Values-Based Tourism Firms (2021) Leisure Sciences DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2021.1874574 Abstract In this paper we focus on the relationship between justice and tourism and the tension between consumerism and citizenship within the context of small values-based tourism firms. We combine Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, the …

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Caraus, T. The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics (2021) Philosophy and Social Criticism DOI: 10.1177/0191453720987867 Abstract The ancient Cynic Diogenes was the first to declare ‘I am a citizen of the world (kosmopolitês)’ and the other Cynics followed him. In The Courage of the Truth, Michel Foucault analyses …

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Emmanuel Chamorro. “Disciplina y capitalismo en la genealogía foucaultiana de la modernidad (1973-1975)”. Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 75 (2021): 2-14. DOI: 10.7440/res75.2021.02 Open access Abstract Este trabajo se propone reconstruir las reflexiones foucaultianas acerca del nacimiento de la modernidad, con especial atención al papel que en ella desempeñan capitalismo y disciplina. La tesis que …

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Fiorani, Matteo. “Rationality, irrationality and irrationalism in the anti-institutional debate in psychiatry around the second half of the 1970s in italy.” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 16, br. 2 (2020): 101-121. DOI: 10.31820/ejap.16.2.5 Open access Abstract The movements and protests of 1968 worldwide criticized the traditional idea of normality. From the 1970s onwards, psychiatry and …

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Golder, Ben, How to do things with Foucault (legally) (February 2, 2021). SSRN Abstract In this essay I discuss the legal theorist, Peter Fitzpatrick’s, reading of philosopher, Michel Foucault. My intent is to show how and why Foucault was important to Fitzpatrick and what this reveals about the latter’s practices of reading. I characterise this …

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Torres Apablaza, Iván. “Ethopolitical modulation of existence: an archeology of the political and ethical life in Michel Foucault” Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy Vol 10, No 18 (2021): 199-223 Open access RESUMEN El artículo tiene por propósito fundamentar la presencia de una reconceptualización de lo político en el pensamiento de Michel …

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Tom Roach, Screen Love. Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era, SUNY Press. Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality. In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate “normal life” before the pandemic. In Screen Love, Tom Roach urges us …

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Ramírez-García, V. The Administration of Desire: Governmentality and Sexual Politics in Mexico’s Demographic Shift of the 1970s. Sexuality Research and Social Policy volume 17, pp. 741–752 (2020). DOI:10.1007/s13178-020-00430-4 Open access Abstract Introduction In 1974 Mexico adopted a new Population Act which marked a turning point in its policies of migration, fertility and education; this new …

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Georgette Bajada, Anne-Marie Callus & Kurt Borg (2021) Unpretentious education: a Foucaultian study of inclusive education in Malta, Disability & Society, Published online: 27 Jan 2021 DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1874877 Abstract This article adopts a theoretical perspective inspired from the work of Michel Foucault to explore the experience of disabled students in Malta. In particular, it studies …

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