Foucault News

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

Innico, S. Enacting Statehood in Places of Exception: The Structural Effect of Statehood on Greek Migration Management (2021) Ethnopolitics DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2021.1907932 Abstract The aim of this paper is to outline an analytic perspective on the notion of statehood, state authorities’ performance in situations of exceptionality, and to present some insights from ethnographic research in the …

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Roberts, J., Sanderson, P., Seidl, D., Krivokapic, A. The UK Corporate Governance Code Principle of ‘Comply or Explain’: Understanding Code Compliance as ‘Subjection’ (2020) Abacus DOI: 10.1111/abac.12208 Abstract The focus of this paper is on UK Code compliance and the contests and confusions that have surrounded its principle of ‘comply or explain’. In contrast to …

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Crispin Sartwell, Michel Foucault Switches Sides, Splice Today, 7 June 2021 Neither the left nor the right can deal with an anti-authoritarian. The French philosophe Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is currently up for re-assessment. In The New York Times, Ross Douthat writes that Foucault, usually thought of as a notorious postmodern neo-Marxist leftist relativist, has lately been associated with the Trumpian right. And an essay in The Point surveys the …

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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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