Foucault News

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

Lorenzini, D. (2021). Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations. Theory, Culture & Society, First published online January 14, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420980510 Abstract This paper addresses the multiple readings that Foucault offers of Descartes’ Meditations during the whole span of his intellectual career. It thus rejects the (almost) exclusive focus of the …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In 1975, Foucault was interviewed by Jacques Chancel on the radio. It is reprinted in Dits et écrits as text 161, “Radioscopie de Michel Foucault”. The French text is here and the recording here. Comparing the transcription and the recording shows that it has been cleaned up quite a bit…

Jen A. Walklate, Time and the Museum. Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality. It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums …

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Andrew Skourdoumbis, Scott Webster, The Epistemological Development of Education. Considering Bourdieu, Foucault and Dewey, Routledge, 2023 forthcoming Book Description This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a “science of education” and what this means for classroom teachers, their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical …

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Beccaria et Foucault : Entre la préhistoire de la raison carcérale et la moralisation de la pénalité Demi-journée d’études Université Paris 8 | Département de philosophie Vendredi 16 décembre 2022, 15h-18h, Salle A028 Programme : – Orazio IRRERA (Université Paris 8 ) – Introduction – Xavier TABET (Université Paris 8 ) – Foucault, un « …

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Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball, The neoliberal dispositif: understanding the transformation of the social and ethical space of education, In Editor(s): Robert J Tierney, Fazal Rizvi, Kadriye Erkican, International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), Elsevier, 2023,Pages 60-69, ISBN 9780128186299, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.01009-5. Abstract: In this article we examine some of the difficulties that surround the understanding …

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Carmona, S., Casasola, A., Ezzamel, M. Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition (2022) Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, art. no. 107031. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2022.107031 Abstract In this paper, we examine how accounting and financial conditions mediated public policy processes of prosecution, punishment, and imprisonment in the Spanish Inquisition during the late 16th and early 17th …

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The West’s leading pseudo-intellectual by Ammar Ahmad The Michigan Daily, November 30, 2022 Jordan Peterson is a popular Canadian personality psychologist who has made quite a name for himself by preaching against the use of pronouns, arguing that they violate freedom of speech. In a CBC interview, he uses his spotlight moment to say “I …

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