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

Nainani, D. The spatio-legality of corporate sovereignty in AppleTV+‘s Severance (2025) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary. Edited By Alex Green, Mitchell Travis, Kieran Tranter, Routledge, pp. 293-314. DOI: 10.4324/9781003412274-17 Abstract In the Apple TV+ drama Severance, both the corporate and the human body are reimagined in terms of its legal personhood and identity. Using a …

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materiali foucaultiani volume XI, numero 21-22 (gennaio-dicembre 2022) Published January 2025 SOMMARIO L’impulsion Nietzsche. sous la direction de Michèle Cohen-Halimi et Orazio Irrera Introduction. « L’impulsion Nietzsche » chez Michel Foucault (pp. 5-10) Michèle Cohen-Halimi et Orazio Irrera Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales (pp. 11-46) …

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Gabriel Pochapski, Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales materiali foucaultiani, a. XI, n. 21-22, gennaio-dicembre 2022, pp. 11-46. Issue released in January 2025. Abstract Rethinking space, pluralizing time. Nietzsche’s Thought Between Foucault and the École des Annales This article aims to examine the uses of Nietzsche’s …

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Geller, P.L. In Small Plastic Things Forgotten: The Contradictions and Consequences of Biopower (2025) In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics Edited By Genevieve Godin, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet, John Schofield, Routledge, pp. 152-166. DOI: 10.4324/9781003272311-10 Abstract This chapter explores the contradictions raised by and consequences of small plastic things forgotten that were born …

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Butchart, G.C. Poststructuralism: A Philosophy of Difference, (2025) In The Handbook of Communication Ethics. Edited By Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jason Hannan, Second Edition, Routledge, pp. 93-107. DOI: 10.4324/9781003274506-9 Abstract This chapter offers an overview of poststructuralism as relevant to media and communication ethics. Research informed by poststructuralist thinking typically emphasizes alterity over identity, …

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Liz Teston (ed), Public Interiority Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm, Routledge, 2024 Public Interiority reconsiders the limits of the interior and its perceived spaces, exploring the notion that interior conditions can exist within an exterior environment, and therefore challenging the very foundations of the interior architecture field. Public Interiority contains eight chapters and 16 …

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Moreno-Mulet, C., Valdivielso-Navarro, J., Miró-Bonet, M., Carrero-Planells, A., Gastaldo, D. Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault’s Lessons on Resistance for Nurses (2025) Nursing Philosophy, 26 (1), art. no. e70008 DOI: 10.1111/nup.70008 Abstract In this paper, we bring together Foucault’s biography and oeuvre to explore key concepts that support the analysis of nurses’ acts of resistance. Foucault reflected …

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Open access directories A new resource page on Foucault News [Editor]: Accessing electronically published scholarly material can be difficult for those with no formal affiliation to a university – and this includes former long-standing staff members. Even people working within the system can run into problems of access for a variety of reasons. This is …

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Hiba, B. If you don’t problematize it, you won’t see it, and you won’t understand it (2025) New Ideas in Psychology, 77, art. no. 101141 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101141 Abstract This paper critically redefines problematization as both a research method and a transformative approach to critical thinking, positioning it as a pivotal modus operandi that transcends the …

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