Foucault News

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

Discacciati, O. October 1917: A Changing Landscape for Peasant Literature. The Role of the Journal Na postu (2021) Enthymema, (28), pp. 36-50. DOI: 10.54103/2037-2426/16838 Open access Abstract The article analyzes the role of the journal Na Postu in the complicated and in many ways conflictual transition from a peasant literature, in the 1930s declared as …

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Mariani, M., Cerdan, C., Peri, I. Cultural biodiversity unpacked, separating discourse from practice (2022) Agriculture and Human Values, . DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10286-y Abstract In this article, we question to what extent origin-food labels, namely Geographical Indications (GIs) and Slow Food Presidia, may effectively account for cultural biodiversity (CB). Building on Foucault’s discourse theory, we question how …

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Capocchi, A., Orlandini, P., Pierotti, M., Amelio, S. The nature, roles, uses, and impacts of accounting systems in the Real Liceo of Lucca in the nineteenth century (2022) Accounting History Review DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2021.2025113 Abstract This study aims to advance the literature by examining how accounting systems were used in the management of the Real Liceo …

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Dombrowsky, T. Independent Thinking in Nursing: An Archaeology of Knowledge Perspective (2022) The Journal of nursing education, 61 (1), pp. 12-18. DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20211201-01 Abstract BACKGROUND: The topic of thinking was not widely discussed in nursing literature until the 1960s. At that time, the nursing process entered nursing literature, and later, in the 1980s, critical thinking …

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McCormick, W. Polarities of the Human and Divine: Aquinas and Schmitt on Political Theology (2022) American Journal of Political Science, 66 (1), pp. 93-105. DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12608 Abstract The investigations of Carl Schmitt yielded an influential but partial recovery of the term “political theology.” In this article, I consider Schmitt’s tendentious reduction of political theology to …

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Sara Raimondi, Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets. Contemporary Political Theory (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-022-00549-6 Open access Essay review Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros, Columbia University Press, New York, 2020, xii+265pp., ISBN: 978- 0-2311-9714-4 Gregg Lambert, The Elements of Foucault, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2020, 143pp., ISBN: 978-1-5179-0877-5 It is a prolific …

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Séminaire Biopolitique plurielle Sous la direction d’Andrea ANGELINI, Orazio IRRERA, Benedetta PIAZZESI Université Paris 8 | Semestre 2 | vendredi 15h-18h (Certaines séances auront lieu sur Zoom, un lien sera transmis aux inscrits au séminaire) Inscriptions / contacts : biopolitiqueplurielle@gmail.com NB : Inscriptions ouvertes jusqu’au 22 février 2022 Séminaire organisé dans le cadre des activités …

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Chipango, E.F. Political ecologies of energy poverty in Zimbabwe (2022) GeoJournal DOI: 10.1007/s10708-021-10566-4 Abstract Studies that attribute energy poverty to a lack of technical resources abound in Zimbabwe. However, such line of reasoning falls short of giving a rigorous analysis of the existing political-economic factors and scalar politics. These include power dynamics, gender relations, class, …

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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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