de Andrade, H.S., Carvalho, S.R., de Oliveira, C.F. Leituras do governo neoliberal do Estado e da saúde (2022) Physis, 32 (1), art. no. e320116 DOI: 10.1590/S0103-73312022320116 Abstract Brazilian Public Health has often analyzed neoliberalism as a phenomenon of emptying the role of the State and a threat to public and universal health. Taking Foucault’s governmental …
Talcott, Samuel. 2022. “Vectors of Thought: François Delaporte, the Cholera of 1832 and the Problem of Error” Philosophies 7, no. 3: 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7030056 Abstract This paper resists the virality of contemporary paranoia by turning to “French epistemology”, a philosophical ethos that embraces uncertainty and complexity by registering the transformative impact of scientific knowledge on thought. …
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Duke University Press, 2021 In an interview conducted a month or so before his death, Foucault took up the notion of problématisation that had structured The Use of Pleasure. This time the context is not Foucault’s scholarly attention to “the conditions in which human beings ‘problematize’ what they are, what they…
Romanowski, M.H. Controlling higher education from a distance: using Foucault’s governmentality to better understand accreditation (2022) Cogent Education, 9 (1), art. no. 2073631 DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2022.2073631 Abstract The Internationalization of Higher Education (IHE) has expanded significantly in quantity, scope, and complexity over the past two decades, advancing into a complex system able to influence and control …
Dominique Lecourt, author of the classics of Marxist philosophy of science Marxism and Epistemology Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault and Proletarian Science?, among many others, died in Paris on 1 May 2022. Here, Roger-Pol Droit remembers his life and work. Also included [on the Verso page] is a newly translated essay of Lecourt’s on Foucault’s The Archaeology …
Special Issue: Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, No. 12 (2022) From the Editors Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science Marlon Salomon Dossiers (Issue-specific topics) Number and Things Foucauldian Contributions to the Work of Ian Hacking María Laura Martínez Heterotopia as a Reconstruction of the …
Meredith TenHoor, Care Beyond Biopolitics, e-flux Architecture, May 2022 What would it mean to design buildings that exceed the economic accountings of liberal biopolitics, that instead offer an entirely different rationale for supporting health? In the years that Michel Foucault conceptualized the term biopolitics, he was part of a constellation of researchers and architects who …
de Heredia, M.I. Reversing “Liberal” Aspirations: A View from “Citizen’s” Movements in Africa (2022) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2052022 Abstract Since Tahir Square, a series of movements and uprisings have spread around Africa. Redefining themselves as “citizens” movements to emphasise their “rights”, one of the most significant characteristics is their tendency to couch their aspirations in …
Alain Brossat, Hétérotopies, communautés, lieux de vie, Ici et ailleurs, jeudi 9 juin 2022 La crise du présent se condense dans celle de l’habitabilité du monde. Moins que jamais, nous ne savons où habiter, comment habiter ni avec qui habiter. Habiter, selon la tradition philosophique occidentale, c’est infiniment davantage qu’occuper un lieu, avoir une maison …
Jessop, B. State theory (2022) Handbook on Theories of Governance, pp. 77-88. Abstract This chapter reviews some scholarly approaches to governance inspired by different accounts of the state and state power and proposes a new approach based on the strategic-relational approach. It assesses the unproductive distinction between state-centric and society-centric perspectives, evaluates whether a governance-centric …
