Foucault News

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

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Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020. This appears to be currently open access as an e-book. https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/51loursikrl.jpg This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued that the philosopher’s interest in literature was limited to…

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Perry Zurn, Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry – University of Minnesota Press, March 2021 https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/image-1.jpg Curiosity is political. Who is curious, when, and how reflects the social values and power structures of a given society. In?Curiosity and Power, Perry Zurn explores the political philosophy of curiosity, staking the…

Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020 Open access This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued that the philosopher’s interest in literature was limited to the 1960s and of a mostly depoliticized nature. However, Foucault’s previously unpublished later works …

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Adam Kotsko, Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory – Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/9781474476010_3.jpg Focuses on Agamben’s intellectual development Offers the first study of the complete Homo Sacer series Takes into account Agamben’s recently-published memoir Addresses the full range of Agamben’s thought on linguistics, poetics, politics and theology Giorgio Agamben has emerged…

Ryan Dillon, Mark Morris, Denis Macshane Mark Cousins: Architectural theorist who captivated experts and enthusiasts alike, Independent, 22 October 2020 For more than 30 years, Mark Cousins’s Friday evening lectures at the Architectural Association were the place to be, not only for those who worked and studied at the school in London, but for people …

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Colman, A. School leadership, school inspection and the micropolitics of compliance and resistance: Examining the hyper-enactment of policy in an area of deprivation (2020) Educational Management Administration and Leadership DOI: 10.1177/1741143219898479 Abstract This paper examines the influence of intense scrutiny from Ofsted on school leadership and policy enactment. Data was collected in a coastal area …

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Eva Hartmann, Janja Komljenovic, The employability dispositif, or the re-articulation of the relationship between universities and their environment (2020) Journal of Education Policy https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2020.1725983 Abstract This paper focuses on how universities are increasingly made responsible for the employment of their students. Drawing on Governmentality Studies, we suggest framing this pressure as an employability dispositif. We …

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Vittoria Borsò, Bio-poetics and the dynamic multiplicity of bios: How literature challenges the politics, economics and sciences of life (2020) In: Kulcsár-Szabó, Z., Lénárt, T., Simon, A., Végső, R. (eds) Life After Literature. Perspectives on Biopoetics, Series: Literature and Theory. Numanities – Arts and Humanities in Progress, vol 12. Springer, Cham pp. 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33738-4_2 Abstract …

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