Foucault News

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

Yokum, N. Juliette’s Endless Prosperities: Foucault avec Lacan on Sade’s Illustrious Villain (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (2), pp. 172-182. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.2.0172 Abstract The Marquis de Sade’s Juliette-well-known as an outrageously murderous, hedonistic anti-heroine-captured the attention of some of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Most of these engagements with Sade have …

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Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions Please register your interest to attend either in person or virtually the?IAS Lecture Series?Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions?to be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick,…

Ural, A.G., Sariman Ozen, E. An analysis of heterotopic space: Hasanpaşa Gazhane, enlightening once again (2022) A/Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 19 (2), pp. 445-457. DOI: 10.5505/itujfa.2022.97355 Open access Abstract While architectural structures can be physically damaged over the years, they may also become functionally inadequate as a result of the change …

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Mark Jennings, The Anglican split: why has sexuality become so important to conservative Christians? The Conversation, August 29, 2022 The newly formed “Diocese of the Southern Cross” has broken away from the Anglican Church of Australia to form a denomination committed to a highly conservative position on sexuality and marriage equality. Global Anglican Futures Conference …

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Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender. The Medical History of a Transformative Idea, Chicago University Press, 2022 Interview (podcast) with the author on the New Books network An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center …

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Verovšek, P.J. The Reluctant Postmodernism of JÜrgen Habermas: Reevaluating Habermas’s Debates with Foucault and Derrida (2022) Review of Politics, 84 (3), pp. 397-421. DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000316 Abstract Politicians and scholars alike have blamed postmodernism – and the identity politics that have emerged in its wake – for the pathologies of the early twenty-first century. Despite his …

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May, L. Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City (2022) Games and Culture DOI: 10.1177/15554120221115398 Abstract Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City has found new life in videogames during the three decades since its demolition, taking on unstable and sometimes contradictory forms when reimagined through virtual architecture. At stake in these acts of …

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Jones, L., Avner, Z., Denison, J. “After the Dust Settles”: Foucauldian Narratives of Retired Athletes’ “Re-orientation” to Exercise (2022) Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4, art. no. 901308 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2022.901308 Abstract One aspect of sports retirement that has been overlooked until recently is the manner in which retired athletes relate to, and seek to …

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Allen, Ansgar, and Sarah Spencer. “Regimes of Motherhood: Social Class, the Word Gap and the Optimisation of Mothers’ Talk.” The Sociological Review, (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221104378. Abstract The role of working class mothers’ talk in explaining their child’s ‘impoverished’ language development and the resulting ‘word gap’ between social classes is hotly debated. Academic research in this …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-first annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Missouri – Kansas City Kansas City, MO April 21-23, 2023 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. In light of recent legal and political moves against abortion and …

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