Laes, E., Bombaerts, G. Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective (2021) Philosophy and Technology DOI: 10.1007/s13347-021-00455-6 Open access Abstract This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by the normative ethics approaches that prevail in the literature. Building on previous insights …
Kobylin, I. The invisible hand of history: Governmentality, the providential machine, and historical materialism (2021) Logos (Russian Federation), 31 (4), pp. 247-265. DOI: 10.22394/0869-5377-2021-4-247-263 Abstract The article is devoted to one aspect of the genealogy of Soviet governmentality. Michel Foucault, who elaborated the original theory of different types of govern-mentality, rejected the idea that socialism …
Kwok, H., Singh, P., Heimans, S. The regime of ‘post-truth’: COVID-19 and the politics of knowledge (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1965544 Abstract The emergence of ‘post-truth’ is often associated with the rise of conspiracy theories and the lack of trust in scientific knowledge. This article attempts to theorise the complex division of labour in this regime …
Testini, F. Genealogical Solutions to the Problem of Critical Distance: Political Theory, Contextualism and the case of Punishment in Transitional Scenarios (2021) Res Publica DOI: 10.1007/s11158-021-09515-2 Abstract In this paper, I argue that one approach to normative political theory, namely contextualism, can benefit from a specific kind of historical inquiry, namely genealogy, because the latter …
Beugnet, M., Delanoë-Brun, E. Raw becomings: Bodies, discipline and control in Julia Ducornau’s Grave (2021) French Screen Studies, 21 (3), pp. 204-223. DOI: 10.1080/26438941.2021.1920705 Abstract Julia Ducournau’s Grave (2018) takes place within the confines of an isolated veterinary school, where humans and animals coexist as part of a highly codified environment. Against the backdrop of …
O’Callaghan, A.K. ‘The medical gaze’: Foucault, anthropology and contemporary psychiatry in Ireland (2021) Irish Journal of Medical Science DOI: 10.1007/s11845-021-02725-w Open access Abstract Michel Foucault developed the concept of ‘the medical gaze’, describing how doctors fit a patient’s story into a ‘biomedical paradigm, filtering out what is deemed as irrelevant material’ (Misselbrook, 2013). Doctors are …
2nd Month of Historical Epistemology November 3, 10, 17, 24 / 2021 17h-19h (Paris time GMT+1) Link Zoom: unive.zoom.us/j/6569494316 Organizing Committee Caroline Angleraux Lucie Fabry Ivan Moya Diez Matteo Vagelli Épistémologie Historique. Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology with the support of IHPST (UMR 8590, Paris 1/CNRS) République des Savoirs (USR …
Häberlen, J.C. Heterochronias: reflections on the temporal exceptionality of revolts (2021) European Review of History, 28 (4), pp. 531-548. DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1897530 Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of Heterotopias, the article explores how we can understand revolts and revolutions as ‘heterochronian’ moments. Revolts turn spaces of ordinary everyday life, streets and squares, factories and universities, …
Gavin Rae, Poststructuralist Agency. The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 Does the poststructuralist decentring of the foundational subject permit a coherent account of agency? Analyses poststructuralist thinking on ‘the subject’ in detail, tying it to the often-ignored question of agency Expands the scope of ‘poststructuralism’ beyond Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault by also …
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Michel Foucault, “Literature and Madness: Madness in the Baroque Theatre and the Theatre of Artaud”, Theory, Culture and Society (requires subscription) A translation of a piece by Foucault, online first in Theory, Culture and Society – part of the special issue on ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ I am co-editing with…
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