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

Schubert, Karsten (2019): The Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP. In: Helene Gerhards und Kathrin Braun (ed.): Biopolitiken – Regierungen des Lebens heute. Wiesbaden: Springer, 121–153 doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-25769-9_5. Abstract PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a relatively new drug-based HIV prevention technique and an important means to lower the HIV risk of gay men who are especially vulnerable to …

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Après «Les Aveux de la chair» Généalogie du sujet chez Michel Foucault, Epel, Mars 2020 Ouvrage dirigé par Sandra Boehringer et Laurie Laufer Attraper erôs dans le filet du logos, l’Occident n’a pas attendu la psychanalyse pour s’y employer. Entre les aphrodisia grecs et le dispositif de sexualité moderne, il ne restait plus à Foucault …

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Foucault fiches de lecture Editor: I posted an earlier notice about this project in 2018. Considerable progress has been made since then and material is now available online. This website open to all Internet users and hosts digital versions of Foucault’s reading notes (from the Foucault archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France). One is …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Signés Foucault & cie, edited by Philippe Artières, Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020 I’d missed news of this until I saw a copy at the BnF bookshop. It’s a little and cheap €5 collection of manifestos and open letters signed by Foucault and others. Very few of these were included…

Kevin Maynard, Foucault on the Wards. Rediscovering Reflection as a Social Pediatrician in Training, Academic Medicine: October 15, 2019 DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003042 Open access Abstract The author states that as a second-year medical student with a liberal arts degree, it is often difficult for him to reconcile his former education with the current demands of his …

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İbrahimhakkıoğlu, F. A Feminist Genealogy of the Lived Body? Rethinking the Gendered Body as a Site of Excess and Indeterminacy (2019) Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50 (4), pp. 324-336. DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2019.1610830 Abstract This essay offers a rethinking of the gendered body as both lived and historically constituted. These two dimensions are sometimes …

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Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor (eds) Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, Routledge, 2013 Description Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, …

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Alex Black and Karen Lumsden, Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers (2020) Policing and Society, 30 (1), pp. 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1568428 Abstract This article explores the riskwork engaged in by call handlers, dispatchers and response officers in …

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Cornelius Borck (2019). Cooperation and Critique in Neuroscience: Loops of Feedback Between Philosophy, the Psy Sciences and Neurophenomenology. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.57 Open access Abstract In the long history of tenuous relations between psychology, psychiatry and philosophy the rise of neuroscience is typically regarded as decisive turn towards biological reductionism. Roughly since the turn …

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