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

Kyungmee Lee (2020). Michel Foucault in technology-enhanced learning: An analytic review of 10 Foucauldian studies on online education. Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.6ff53517 Abstract This paper aims to introduce Foucault’s theoretical ideas to researchers of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), particularly researchers who are interested in online educational provisions. This paper explains some of Foucault’s …

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What would it be to re-sculpt the projects of human life and social government without “freedom” or “liberty”? The terms are decidedly overdetermined, rising (unsurprisingly) during the configurations of the nation state and in the wake of the French Revolution (see accompanying Ngrams). The assumptions and calls for freedom after the…

Michel Foucault, Sexuality The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures, Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Graham Burchell. Columbia University Press Forthcoming August 2021. Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality —the first volume of which was published in 1976—exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault’s interest in the history …

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Cités N° 84/2020 : Biopolitique du coronavirus (2020) Date de parution 06/01/2021 RÉSUMÉ Jamais sans doute le concept de biopolitique, inventé par Michel Foucault en 1975, il y a donc quarante-cinq ans, n’aura mieux prouvé sa pertinence que dans la période actuelle. La biopolitique chez Foucault se caractérise en particulier par deux dimensions : la …

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Sotiris, P. Thinking beyond the lockdown: On the possibility of a democratic biopolitics (2020) Historical Materialism DOI: 10.1163/1569206X-12342803 Abstract Covid-19 is not only a health emergency but also a strategic challenge for any politics of resistance, struggle and transformation. Understanding the social and political dynamics associated with morbidity and mortality and the many ‘ecologies of …

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Raymond Blake Stricklin, “I have nothing to say”—John Cage, biopower, and the demilitarization of language (2020) Journal of Modern Literature, 43 (3), pp. 98-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.3.06 Abstract In 1975, John Cage read from his chance-generated piece, Empty Words, at the Schizo-Culture conference held at Columbia University. The conference connected Cage with post-1968 theorists like Michel Foucault, …

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Hakem Al-Rustom, Internal orientalism and the nation-state order: Turkey, armenians, and the writing of history (2020) Ariel, 51 (4), pp. 1-31. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2020.0026 Abstract This essay reads Edward Said’s Orientalism not only as a history of the idea of the Orient in Europe but as a book of oppositional history that challenges institutions of power and …

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Pandemic Education and Viral Politics By Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Routledge, 2020 Book Description Viral modernity is a concept based upon the nature of viruses, the ancient and critical role they play in evolution and culture, and their basic application to understanding the role of information and forms of bioinformation in the social world. …

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Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society (paperback) by Timothy W. Luke With a Foreword by Ronald J. Deibert Telos Press, Coming December 1, 2020. New edition. First published in 1989 This new edition of Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, first published in 1989, reintroduces the innovative critique …

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