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

Smeets, Koen, Neo-Liberalism, Neoclassical Economics, and Foucault: Dominant Schools of Economic Thought in American Anarcho-Liberalism and German Ordoliberalism (April 3, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3684056 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3684056 Abstract This paper examines the influence of American and German neo-liberalism on the dominant school of economics in their respective countries based on an extended version of Foucault’s The Birth of …

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González, D.E., Galmiche, G.P., Sánchez, A.C.M. Michel Foucault and his speech beyond the philosophical: A political analysis in the light of philosophy [Michel foucault y su discurso más allá de lo filosófico un análisis político a la luz de la filosofía] (2021) HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional De Humanidades, 10(1), pp. 131–141. …

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The Telos Press Podcast: Kyle Baasch on Adorno and Foucault in San Francisco By Telos Press · Sunday, December 12, 2021 In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Kyle Baasch about his article “Critical Theory in the Flesh: Adorno and Foucault in San Francisco,” from Telos 196 (Fall 2021). An excerpt of the article …

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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:
https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/update-13.jpg 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…

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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