Foucault News

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

John Iliopoulos, “Foucault Understood Critical Psychiatry.” BJPsych Advances, 2021, pp. 1–10. doi:10.1192/bja.2021.22 Summary Critical trends in psychiatry are abundant today. Their impact on how psychiatry is currently practised is considerable. Yet what deserves close examination is the extent to which these modes of critique (anti-psychiatry, liberation movements, activism, existential, narrative or hermeneutic approaches, theories of …

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Magee, P (2020) ‘Alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate (by way of the past)’, TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses 24, 1 Open access Abstract This paper contributes to the project of mapping alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate, by way of deep excavation into the history of scholarly forms. A key …

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Sheehey, B. Ethics beyond transparency: Resisting the racial injustice of predictive policing (2020) Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 24 (3), pp. 256-281. DOI: 10.5840/techne202087128 Abstract This paper responds to recent work highlighting the problematic racial politics of predictive policing technologies. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s account of ethics as counter-conduct, I develop a set of …

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Gane, Nicholas. “Nudge Economics as Libertarian Paternalism.” Theory, Culture & Society, (April 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276421999447. Open access Abstract Given the growing prominence of nudge economics both within and beyond the academy, it is a timely moment to reassess the philosophical and political arguments that sit at its core, and in particular what Richard Thaler and Cass …

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Catherine Malabou – “Foucault’s last seminars: the ‘other politics’” http://www.egs.edu​ Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. April 22, 2021. Open Public Lecture co-hosted by The European Graduate School and Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, Beograd for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought …

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Niki Kasumi Clements, Foucault’s Christianities, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 89, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 1–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfab024 Open access Abstract The publication of Michel Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair (History of Sexuality, Volume 4: Confessions of the Flesh) thirty-four years after his death highlights and complicates the relevance of Christian …

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Glouftsios, G. Governing border security infrastructures: Maintaining large-scale information systems (2020) Security Dialogue, DOI: 10.1177/0967010620957230 Abstract This article explores the maintenance of large-scale information systems that are used for, among other purposes, border security in the European Union. My argument is that information systems do not always operate according to their design scripts. They materialize …

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Gordon Hull, Foucault, Marx and Prophecy: the 11th “Thesis on Feuerbach”, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 22 April 2021 Foucault thinks Marxism is bossy. In Society must be Defended, he lays down the gauntlet clearly enough: totalizing theories get in the way of useful things at the local level. As he notes, one should …

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L’historien français Marc Ferro est mort Par Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Le Monde, 22 avril 2021 Spécialiste du XXe siècle, de la Grande Guerre à Vichy et à la décolonisation, il a été pionnier dans l’utilisation des images comme source historique. Agé de 96 ans, il est décédé le 21 avril. Internationalement reconnu pour ses travaux sur …

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The Bedroom by Michelle Perrot review – an intimate history by Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, Tue 11 Dec 2018 Details for book The bedroom, says French superstar historian Michelle Perrot, is the place where everything important has already happened. From the days when early man first rolled a boulder in front of his cave and …

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