Foucault News

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

Cos, J.C.C.G. Space___Between: Remnants of a city as catalysts for change (2021) Cidades, (43), pp. 22-33. DOI: 10.15847/cct.24114 Abstract It all starts with a question… Or perhaps too many. What can be done with the remnants of any given city? Can they be transformed to create a shared, cohesive, and productive urban environment? Understanding that …

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François Châtelet, un philosophe au présent Textes réunis et édités par Franck Jedrzejewski et Nathalie Périn, L’Harmattan, 2022 Philosophe hors du commun, François Châtelet (1925-1985) a profondément marqué le paysage intellectuel français du XXe siècle. Cofondateur, avec Michel Foucault et Gilles Deleuze, du département de philosophie du Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes, aujourd’hui Université Paris …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Although I’ve been teaching this term, I have also been working hard on the manuscript of The Archaeology of Foucault, in particular completing one chapter for which I had some draft material before. It’s the first chapter of the book, on madness and medicine, but I’ve ended up finishing it…

Neha Patel, The Function of Train Travel in Books, Book Riot, Jan 14, 2022 […] Trains are incredible because its passengers either forget about them entirely or have a moment or two immortalized in their memories. But trains themselves are liminal. The term’s Latin roots come from “limen,” which roughly translates to “threshold.” As such, …

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Tom Shakespeare, Review: The many worlds of disability, The Lancet, Volume 398, Issue 10316, 4–10 December 2021, Page 2066 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02693-3 Jan Grue is a phenomenon in the disability world: a 40-year-old with a congenital muscular atrophy, who is an author of fiction for adults and children and is also Professor of Qualitative Research at the …

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Ethics And The Problem Of Contingency, Ed. Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi, Fordham University Press (2021) Foreword by Alain Badiou Contributor(s): Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe and Slavoj Žižek Description More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and …

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Galis & Makrygianni Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory (2022) Political Geography, 95, art. no. 102599 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102599 Abstract Migrants’ engagement with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) reveals a wide spectrum of resistance practices that enact “heterotopias” (Foucault, 1967) that extend from the human body to transnational landscapes …

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Sánchez-Pinilla, M.D., González, D.J.D. Punitive rationalities. An epistemology for the objectification and historicity of punishment policies [Racionalidades punitivas. Una epistemología para la objetivación y la historicidad de las políticas del castigo] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 131-157. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1358 Open access Abstract Michel Foucault’s idea of rationality does not refer to a universal criterion of reason …

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Vicente L. Rafael, The Sovereign Trickster. Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, Duke University Press, 2022 In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, …

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