Johnson, P. Critique as ideology critique in a neoliberal age (2020) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 46 (7), pp. 810-828. DOI: 10.1177/0191453719860229 Abstract Neo-liberalism is not working but carries on regardless. A society and all of its institutions modelled on market logics and imperatives has produced system crisis and has lost widespread popular support. To account …
Louise Owusu-Kwarteng, ‘Whoever holds the scissors wields the power’: An auto/biographical reflection on my ‘Hairstory’ (2020) Women’s Studies International Forum, 82, art. no. 102405 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102405 Abstract This paper provides an auto/biographical account of my hair journey, with specific emphasis on my hairstyle changes, and their ‘inextricable links’ to my identity and self-presentation (Bankhead and Johnson, …
Thomas Ahrens, Laurence Ferry, Rihab Khalifa, Governmentality and counter-conduct: A field study of accounting amidst concurrent and competing rationales and programmes (2020) Management Accounting Research, 48, art. no. 100686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mar.2020.100686 Abstract This paper contributes to the diverse and growing stream of accounting research on Foucault’s notion of counter-conduct, which is broadly concerned with the uses …
Beattie, L., Educational leadership: Producing docile bodies? A Foucauldian perspective on Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly. 2020; 74: 98– 110. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12218 Open access Abstract The aim of this paper is to contribute to a long‐standing critical tradition in the educational leadership literature through an analytical examination of the idiosyncrasies of leadership in Higher Education institutions …
Moreno Pestaña, J.L. Oedipus Rex as a philosophical and political strategy (2020) Sociological Review, 68 (5), pp. 1092-1107. DOI: 10.1177/0038026119900117 Abstract This article studies Michel Foucault’s interpretation of the tragedy Oedipus Rex. The analysis seeks to uncover the various intellectual strategies around his study. First, Foucault takes a position in the political debate about prisons …
Amy Allen, The Politics of ourselves, from Foucault Across the disciplines, Online on Soundcloud, 13 July 2019 See also Amy Allen’s book The Politics of ourselves, 2007, 2013
Recently Published Book Spotlight: How Propaganda Became Public Relations Interview with Cory Wimberly by Nathan Eckstrand, Blog of the APA, July 6, 2020 This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Cory Wimberly‘s How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public. Cory Wimberly is Associate Professor of Philosophy …
Laurence Barry, Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 For decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault’s reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he sketches …
Matthew McManus interviews Judith Butler about power, performance, and feminism in the 21st century. What is post-Marxism for in the era of Covid-19 and Trump? Streamed live 21 July 2020 on the Zero Books Channel on YouTube [Editor: Update 10 March 2026. The link above is to the video archived on the Wayback Machine.]
Special Issue: Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. A Rethinking Marxism Dossier | Summer 2020 Foucault related articles in this large issue include The Multitude Divided: Biopolitical Production during the Coronavirus Pandemic Stijn De Cauwer & Tim Christiaens The Biopolitics of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Herd Immunity, Thanatopolitics, Acts of Heroism Ali Rıza Taşkale & Christina …
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