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

Karnovsky, S., Gobby, B., O’Brien, P. A Foucauldian ethics of positivity in initial teacher education (2021) Educational Philosophy and Theory DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2021.2016390 Abstract This article explores ways pre-service teachers learn to work upon their positive emotional conduct during an initial teacher education course. The article argues that education practice today promotes the acting out of …

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PhD Course: Foucault: Organization, technology, and subject-formation Copenhagen 27/06/2022 – 30/06/2022 More information and registration: https://phdcourses.dk/Course/88149 Faculty Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. Sverre Raffnsøe, Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. Ute Tellman, Professor, Department of Sociology, Darmstadt University. Kaspar Villadsen, Professor (mso), Department …

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Tracey Potts, Clutter and place (2020) The Routledge Handbook of Place, Edited By Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari, pp. 486-495. DOI: 10.4324/9780429453267-43 Abstract This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in …

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Raúl García, The Event of Psychopoetics. Imagination and the Rupture of Psychology, Routledge, 2021 The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My optimistic idea of having a complete, even if very rough, draft of The Archaeology of Foucault before Christmas didn’t happen. I’d liked the idea of having a complete text, which I could then print and leave for a while when on holiday, and return to edit before term started…

Daher-Nashif, S. (2021). In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociology Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12949 Abstract Politics is a major player in health, sickness, and death affairs. This article reviews the role of politics in public health and its impact on health outcomes, mortality ratios, and death …

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Kaveh Dastooreh, The Aesthetics of Life: More than Ethics and Morality. Studies in Philosophy and Education (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-021-09812-6 Abstract This paper explores the general characteristics of the aesthetics of life. Our approach will be in thinking about the aesthetics of life as a domain independent from the realms of ethics and morality. This thesis discusses …

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Michel Foucault’s speech on notion of parresia published for Persian readers, Tehran Times, December 28, 2021 – Cheshmeh is the publisher of the book rendered into Persian by Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Seyyedi. The book launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of …

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Oleg Barabanov, Pandemic and Climate, History and Values: Results of the Valdai Club Expert Programme, 28 December 2021 In 2021, the coronavirus pandemic continued to be one of the most important events. Naturally, its influence on world politics and society remained the main focus of the Valdai Discussion Club experts. […] The pandemic and its …

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