Oxana Timofeeva Rathole: Beyond the Rituals of Handwashing, e-flux, #119 – June 2021 In the spring of 2020, when the World Health Organization formally announced the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and governments began introducing new restrictions, some philosophers looked to Michel Foucault, who created tools for analyzing mass disease in relation to discourses and …
Life Arts 7/3/2021, OEN, OpEdNews Celebrating the Fourth of July 2021 (REVIEW ESSAY) By Thomas Farrell […] Now, in fairness to Foucault, he turns to the nineteenth-century German classicist and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1901) in his inaugural lecture course (see the “Index of Names” [pages 292-293] for specific page references to Nietzsche) – a source …
Marco Checchi, The Primacy of Resistance. Power, Opposition and Becoming, Bloomsbury, 2021 Review in Foucault Studies Description What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of resistance as primary. The author proposes a …
Diaz-Bone, R. Economics of convention meets Canguilhem (2021) Historical Social Research, 46 (1), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.285-311 Abstract »Economics of Convention Meets Canguilhem«. The neopragmatist institutionalist approach of economics of convention (in short EC) still is in need of a conception of health that enables EC to work out a critical standpoint in the analysis …
Camille Robcis, Disalienation. Politics, Philosophy, And Radical Psychiatry In Postwar France, University of Chicago Press, 2021 See also interview with the author on the New Books Network From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime’s “soft extermination” let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But …
E is for Epistemology (Michel Foucault) (2021) Michel Foucault from A to Z. — Does epistemology has anything to do with epidemiology? An epic conversation about philosophy, knowledge, history, and viruses, including references to Canguilhem and Bachelard as well as Laurie Anderson and William Burroughs…
Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s ethics. A poststructuralist moral theory for the twenty-first century, Manchester University Press, 2021 DESCRIPTION In popularizing the term ‘speaking truth to power’, now widely used throughout the world, Michel Foucault established the basis upon which a new ethics can be constructed. This is the thesis that Mark Olssen advances in Constructing …
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Alison Downham Moore on ‘Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality’ – video abstract for Alison Downham Moore and Stuart Elden, review essay on ‘Foucault’s 1960s lectures on sexuality‘, Theory, Culture & Society (open access) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L002CQ6viH4 This essay is part of the special issue on ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’, which…
Conference: Foucault’s confessions videos (2021)
Antoine Idier, Michel Foucault before the Commission for Penal Code Review, Lundimatin, 16 mai 2021 These past few weeks I’ve often been asked about the subject which has taken the name of the “Michel Foucault affair” (even though there was no “affair” to speak of), following the delirious accusations of a right-wing essayist and their …
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