Foucault News

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

Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End? By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. The Nation, 14 April 2022 A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. The term “neoliberalism” is often used to condemn an array of economic policies associated with such ideas …

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Mitchell Dean, What does ‘Left’ mean?, Verso Blog, 13 April 2022 Mitchell Dean responds to the review of his book The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (co-written with Daniel Zamora) published in the journal Foucault Studies. One is always grateful when a reader has taken the time to review a scholarly work in the …

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Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, Commenti alla Filosofia. Quaderni di archeologia filosofica. Volume secondo Edizioni Efesto (2022) Abstract Nel Medioevo il commento è la lettura di un testo che prelude ad una disputa o segue una presa di posizione dottrinale o metafisica. Questo secondo volume dei “Quaderni” rincorre quel senso aggiornandolo alla questione implicita del pensiero: – …

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Robinson, D., Ilinskaya, S. Queering the popular utopia through translingual science fiction: Sense8 as cultural translation (2022) Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2022.2043396 Abstract The paper reads the queer utopia fleshed forth in the Wachowskis’ two-season series Sense8 as a heterotopia (Joanne Tompkins, developing an idea out of Foucault) that orients us …

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Sukhera, J., Poleksic, J., Zaheer, J., Pack, R. Normalising disclosure or reinforcing heroism? An exploratory critical discourse analysis of mental health stigma in medical education (2022) Medical Education DOI: 10.1111/medu.14790 Abstract Introduction: There has been a proliferation of initiatives targeted towards improving psychological wellbeing among medical learners. Yet many learners do not seek assistance due …

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He, Y. Contemporary painting, the ‘loop’ and the Chinese context (2021) Journal of Contemporary Painting, 7 (1-2), pp. 199-223. DOI: 10.1386/JCP_00026_1 Abstract This article explores my own painting practice in relation to my pedagogical experience in both China and the United Kingdom, in order to see how traditional painting and the pedagogy of painting can …

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Zanetti, F.L., Castanheira, K.N.L. Nietzsche, Feyerabend and Foucault: a dialogue on the eclipse of science in current politics [Nietzsche, Feyerabend e Foucault: um diálogo sobre o eclipse da ciência na política atual] (2021) Revista de Filosofia: Aurora, 33 (60), pp. 879-898. DOI: 10.7213/1980-5934.33.060.DS08 Abstract This study considers science as a space crossed by forces that …

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Volume 11 of Maynooth Philosophical Papers contains two articles that are of interest to Foucault scholars. PDF of Table of Contents Based on research in the Foucault Archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Philippe Chevallier’s essay formulates, for the first time, a series of hypotheses concerning the stages in which Foucault composed the fourth …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On Wednesday afternoon, I submitted the final, revised manuscript of?The Archaeology of Foucault?to Polity. I’d submitted the manuscript for review in February during Warwick’s reading week, and had two very positive and useful reports back at the end of March. The final revisions were completed this week, and the book…

Hassan, N.R., Lowry, P.B., Mathiassen, L. Useful Products in Information Systems Theorizing: A Discursive Formation Perspective (2022) Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23 (2), pp. 418-446. DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00730 Abstract Although there is a growing understanding of theory building in the information systems (IS) field, what constitutes IS theory remains the subject of intense …

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