Foucault News

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

Jeremy Weissman, The Crowdsourced Panopticon. Conformity and Control on Social Media, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Review at LSE Review of Books Behind the omnipresent screens of our laptops and smartphones, a digitally networked public has quickly grown larger than the population of any nation on Earth. On the flipside, in front of the ubiquitous recording …

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Geoff Shullenberger,The Violence of Institutions, or Girard avec Foucault, Outsider Theory, June 2, 2021 René Girard and Michel Foucault, two of the most ambitious interdisciplinary thinkers of the twentieth century, shared an abiding interest in the violence embedded in institutions, but their names are rarely mentioned together. My modest goal here is to outline a …

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Società Filosofica Italiana Società Filosofica Italiana – sezione di Lucca SEMINARIO TELEMATICO SU “Eccezione pandemica e tanatopolitica affermativa” Relatore Francescomaria Tedesco (Università di Camerino) Presenta Giovanna Miglio (Società Filosofica Italiana, Lucca) MERCOLEDÌ 9 GIUGNO 2021 H. 17:00-19:30 LINK: (PIATTAFORMA MEET) HTTPS://MEET.GOOGLE.COM/XJN-SECH-PUI

La Morte e le Parole – Immagini e corpi dell’ultimo nemico – Seminario on-line (2021) Event by Laboratorio Archeologia filosofica Online event Price: free Public · Anyone on or off Facebook Cosa cambia nel modo in cui si muore? maschere, iconografie, letteratura, filosofia hanno codificato i modi del morire la cui lingua risulta di difficile …

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Karen Bennett, Foucault in English, The politics of exoticization, In Translation in times of technocapitalism, Edited by Stefan Baumgarten and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell [Target 29:2] 2017, pp. 222–243, Published online: 29 June 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/target.29.2.02ben Abstract It is something of a cliché to affirm that translations into English are almost always domestications, privileging fluency and naturalness over …

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“Do Not Ask Me Who I Am” Foucault and neoliberalism, The Point Magazine, June 2 2021 We just can’t seem to shake Foucault. The French philosopher, loathed or loved, has not dimmed in significance since his death of AIDS in 1984. In many ways the patron saint of contemporary humanistic inquiry, Michel Foucault’s work remains …

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Calbérac, Y. (2021). Close Reading Michel Foucault’s and Yves Lacoste’s Concepts of Space Through Spatial Metaphors. Le Foucaldien, 7(1), 6. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.90 Abstract Based on a close reading of the interview that Michel Foucault gave Hérodote, the geography journal newly established and managed by Yves Lacoste in 1976, this article—through the study of spatial metaphors—unfolds …

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Stephen J. Ball (2021) Response: policy? Policy research? How absurd?, Critical Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2021.1924214 Extract from first page There is no way that I can address the wide range of issues raised in the exemplary collection of papers on policy sociology. These are cutting edge pieces by world-class scholars that lay out analytic …

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Michel Foucault en Amérique : au cœur de la vallée de la Mort (2021), Par Sophie Joubert, France-Amérique, Mai 25, 2021 Parmi les penseurs de la French Theory, Michel Foucault est le plus connu. Celui dont l’œuvre, controversée, irrigue encore aujourd’hui les travaux de nombreux chercheurs américains. A partir de 1970 et jusqu’à sa mort …

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