Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, Edited By Sandra Boehringer, Daniele Lorenzini, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, published for the first time in English, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault has influenced studies of ancient Greece and Rome. Foucault’s The History of Sexuality has had a profound and lasting impact …
Mark Coeckelbergh, Self-Improvement. Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Columbia University Press, 2022 We are obsessed with self-improvement; it’s a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless task of perfecting ourselves, we have become restless, anxious, and desperate. We …
Twyford, E.J. Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19 (2022) Meditari Accountancy Research DOI: 10.1108/MEDAR-05-2021-1296 Abstract Purpose: This study aims to fill the gaps in mandated reports with social accounts to provide more inclusive accountability during a crisis using the illustrative example of Anglicare’s Newmarch House during a deadly COVID-19 outbreak. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses …
Barnett, C.R. The key of knowledge (2021) Text (Australia), 25 (Special Issue 61) DOI: 10.52086/001C.23497 Abstract Keys are used to gain access, knowledge, and power but what happens when these everyday items are transformed into supernatural objects? Do they, in turn, become a source of knowledge and power? Charles Perrault played with this concept by …
de Andrade, H.S., Carvalho, S.R., de Oliveira, C.F. Leituras do governo neoliberal do Estado e da saúde (2022) Physis, 32 (1), art. no. e320116 DOI: 10.1590/S0103-73312022320116 Abstract Brazilian Public Health has often analyzed neoliberalism as a phenomenon of emptying the role of the State and a threat to public and universal health. Taking Foucault’s governmental …
Talcott, Samuel. 2022. “Vectors of Thought: François Delaporte, the Cholera of 1832 and the Problem of Error” Philosophies 7, no. 3: 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7030056 Abstract This paper resists the virality of contemporary paranoia by turning to “French epistemology”, a philosophical ethos that embraces uncertainty and complexity by registering the transformative impact of scientific knowledge on thought. …
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Duke University Press, 2021 In an interview conducted a month or so before his death, Foucault took up the notion of problématisation that had structured The Use of Pleasure. This time the context is not Foucault’s scholarly attention to “the conditions in which human beings ‘problematize’ what they are, what they…
Romanowski, M.H. Controlling higher education from a distance: using Foucault’s governmentality to better understand accreditation (2022) Cogent Education, 9 (1), art. no. 2073631 DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2022.2073631 Abstract The Internationalization of Higher Education (IHE) has expanded significantly in quantity, scope, and complexity over the past two decades, advancing into a complex system able to influence and control …
Dominique Lecourt, author of the classics of Marxist philosophy of science Marxism and Epistemology Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault and Proletarian Science?, among many others, died in Paris on 1 May 2022. Here, Roger-Pol Droit remembers his life and work. Also included [on the Verso page] is a newly translated essay of Lecourt’s on Foucault’s The Archaeology …
Special Issue: Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, No. 12 (2022) From the Editors Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science Marlon Salomon Dossiers (Issue-specific topics) Number and Things Foucauldian Contributions to the Work of Ian Hacking María Laura Martínez Heterotopia as a Reconstruction of the …
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