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

An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon Omar Sabbagh on a biography of Jacques Derrida. Philosophy Now, 2021 Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida, Verso Books, 2020, 320 pages, £11.99 hb, ISBN 978-1788732802 Deciding to write a biog raphy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), even a predominantly intellectual …

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Radford, G. P., Radford, M. L., & Lingel, J. (2015). The library as heterotopia: Michel Foucault and the experience of library space. Journal of Documentation, 71(4), 733-751. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2014-0006 Abstract Purpose Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as a guide, the purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of considering the library as place, …

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https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/update-12.jpg As the?last update?on?this book?said, I was able to make a trip to Paris over reading week. I spent most of the time at the BNF working on archival materials related to?The Archaeology of Knowledge. There is a manuscript on philosophical discourse, probably written in 1966, which seems to be…

Deering, B. (2015). In the Dead of Night: A Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard. In M.-J. Blanco & R. Vidal (Eds.), The Power of Death: Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society (1st ed., pp. 183–197). Berghahn Books. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qd3qf.19 The photograph below shows a visitor to a Hallowe’en graveyard event.¹ Hundreds of flickering …

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Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021) Art Forum, November 10, 2021 Renowned French thinker Sylvère Lotringer, a lodestar in the twin galaxies of literary criticism and cultural theory, died on November 8 at the age of eighty-three following an illness. Beginning in the 1970s, Lotringer reshaped the American literary scene through the journal Semiotext(e), which he began publishing …

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Taşkale, Ali Rıza. “Thanatopolitics and Colonial Logics in Blade Runner 2049.” Thesis Eleven 166, no. 1 (October 2021): 109–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136211043944. Abstract This article critically engages with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, focusing on the relationship between colonial logics and biological engineering that understands the natural world as property. First, it discusses the connections between the …

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Clements, Paul. “Highgate Cemetery Heterotopia: A Creative Counterpublic Space.” Space and Culture 20, no. 4 (November 2017): 470–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331217724976. Open access Abstract Highgate Cemetery is nominally presented as a heterotopia, constructed, and theorized through the articulation of three “spaces.” First, it is configured as a public space which organizes the individual and the social, where …

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Guilel Treiber, From Monster to Child. Ariès, Foucault, and the Constitution of Normality, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, issue 2, vol 83, 2021, 323-354 Abstract : This paper aims to destabilize the obvious, intrinsic value of childhood as one of the most morally potent values of our times and to trace its historical rise to dominance. I …

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Boulton, M., Garnett, A., & Webster, F. (2021). A Foucauldian discourse analysis of media reporting on the nurse-as-hero during COVID-19. Nursing Inquiry, e12471. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12471 Abstract This study uses a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore media reporting on the role of nurses as being consistently positioned ‘heroes’ during COVID-19. In so doing, it highlights multiple intersecting …

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A. Pitsikali & R. Parnell (2019) The public playground paradox: ‘child’s joy’ or heterotopia of fear?, Children’s Geographies, 17:6, 719-731, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2019.1605046 ABSTRACT Literature depicts children of the Global North withdrawing from public space to ‘acceptable islands’. Driven by fears both of and for children, the public playground – one such island – provides clear-cut …

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