Foucault News

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

Margolin, L. Rogerian Psychotherapy and the Problem of Power: A Foucauldian Interpretation (2020) Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 60 (1), pp. 130-143. DOI: 10.1177/0022167816687640 Abstract Guided by Foucault’s argument that “knowledge is an ‘invention’ behind which lies something completely different from itself: the play of instincts, impulses, desires, fears, and the will to appropriate,” this study …

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Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault, with Ann Stoler Great Books 31, Think About It | Podcast Conversations on big ideas and great books hosted by Uli Baer. Why is everyone talking about Michel Foucault these days? How can Foucault’s work have so many resonances in our contemporary world? What were his insights and discoveries …

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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Penser l’après : Sciences, pouvoir et opinions dans l’après Covid-19, The Conversation, May 3, 2020 […] Michel Foucault souligne le contraste entre ce modèle archaïque de la quarantaine où un pouvoir souverain autoritaire régit depuis un état central la vie des populations, et les dispositifs stratégiques de contrôle diffus de la vie mis …

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Foucault on Liberal Democracy, Historicism and Philosophy Blake Smith. Tocqueville 21, 9 May 2020 Liberal democracy is an oxymoron. Or rather, it’s a site of confrontation between contradictory discourses, between the universalist aspirations of philosophy and the partisanship of historiography. So insinuates Michel Foucault in the lecture series “Society Must be Defended,” delivered at the Collège de …

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The city in a time of plague By PEPE ESCOBAR, Asia Times, APRIL 17, 2020 See also How to think post-Planet Lockdown By PEPE ESCOBAR. Asia Times, APRIL 28, 2020 History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town …

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Downey, H., Clune, T. How does the discourse surrounding the Murray Darling Basin manage the concept of entitlement to water? (2020) Critical Social Policy, 40 (1), pp. 108-129. DOI: 10.1177/0261018319837206 Abstract Globally, the challenges of climate change have resulted in significant water policy reform. Australia’s Murray Darling Basin (MDB) Plan is a complex transboundary water …

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Jean M. Langford, Avian Bedlam: Toward a Biosemiosis of Troubled Parrots, Environmental Humanities 9:1 (May 2017) DOI 10.1215/22011919-3829145 © 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Abstract At an urban parrot sanctuary in the Midwestern USA, humans care for eighty-some parrots from more …

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Jürgen Portschy, Times of power, knowledge and critique in the work of Foucault, Time and Society Volume: 29 issue: 2, page(s): 392-419 Article first published online: May 7, 2020; Issue published: May 1, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20911786 Abstract While Michel Foucault is commonly considered as a thinker with a primary interest in space and spatiality, his use …

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From Citizens to Patients: A Threat to Resist. Pandemic Lectures at the the International University College of Turin- Ugo Mattei & Federico Soldani, May 4, 2020 The decline of law as a tool for social control and its supplanting by technological, mental, and medical management aimed at preventing deviant behavior, with nary a concern for …

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