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

Zaharijević, A., & Urošević, M. (2024). Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241284544 Abstract The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a specific period of his work, situated between the disciplinary phase and the beginning …

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Hickman, Robin, Ping Lu, and André Botermans. . “The Discourse of Cycling in Houten.” Journal of Urban Design, January 2025, 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2024.2441133 ABSTRACT This paper aims to understand the critical factors behind the development of contemporary cycling practice in Houten, the Netherlands. Eighteen in-depth interviews, with transport and urban planning experts and residents, are …

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Delf Rothe, Christine Hentschel, Ursula Schröder, Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction, Geoforum, Volume 159, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104195 Abstract: What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? This conceptual introduction to the special issue “Critical Climate Security” develops a new theoretical approach to studying the complex linkages between climate change, security, and conflict. …

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Dossier: Foucault, 40 años después: Foucault desde el Sur Global (No. 41) EN EL MARCO DEL WORLD CONGRESS: FOUCAULT 40 YEARS AFTER Dossier: Foucault desde el Sur Global (No. 41) Dossier: Foucault from the Global South (No. 41) Coordinadores / Coordinators: Hugo David Tavera Villegas Bertha Bermúdez Tapia FECHA LÍMITE DE ENVÍO: 17 DE FEBRERO …

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Pietro Barbetta, Giovanni Mascaretti, Lorenzo Petrachi (eds), Michel Foucault.Quarant’anni e poi, Orthotes Editrice, 2024 Sono trascorsi quarant’anni dalla scomparsa di Michel Foucault. Da allora, il corpus foucaultiano e i suoi utilizzi non hanno fatto che moltiplicarsi, diffondersi e diffrangersi, incontrando sulla loro strada movimenti sociali, studi post-coloniali e di genere, letterature e torsioni filosofiche inattese. …

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Antti Saari & Jan Varpanen, Critical ambiguities – ambiguities of critique: Technologies of the self in entrepreneurial activism, Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organization, 2024 Open access Keywords critical theories, social movements, power, entrepreneurial activism, Foucault, subjectivity Theory U, Ambiguity Extract from introduction In Foucauldian organization studies, a shift of emphasis has taken place from …

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Edizione Efesto Archeologia del presente è una nuova collana che prova a contaminare pensiero e racconto, cronaca e archivio, giornalismo filosofico e urgenze politiche per elaborare una presa di posizione sulla realtà attuale. Questo campo di ricerca interpella i dispositivi di sapere-potere nel tempo della fine. Pensare questo tempo significa comprendere ciò che resta – …

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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Par-delà le principe de répression. Dix leçons sur l’abolitionnisme pénal, Flammarion, 2025 « Tout interroger, tout bousculer, tout refonder, et produire, à partir de là, quelque chose comme une désorientation générale de nos sens, une transformation des affects que nous sommes souvent conduits à éprouver lorsque nous sommes victimes ou témoins d’une …

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