Aaron Schuster, The Debt Drive: Philosophical Anthropology and Political Economy “Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference. Abstract: The philosophical conception of the human being as a being whose existence precedes its essence, defined by its radical openness and fundamentally historical character was, for the twentieth century, part and parcel of …
Thacker, Eugene. “The Shadows of Atheology: Epidemics, Power and Life after Foucault.” Theory, Culture & Society 26, no. 6 (November 2009): 134–52. doi:10.1177/0263276409347698. Abstract This essay examines a hidden link in biopolitical thinking after Foucault — the relation between biology and theology. The result is a turn away from the dichotomy of life/death and towards …
Daniel Zamora et Jean-Yves Pranchère, Foucault et le néolibéralisme : (1/2), Ballast, 24 janvier 2020 Entretien inédit pour le site de Ballast En 2014, le sociologue Daniel Zamora était déjà venu nous parler de Michel Foucault suite à la parution son livre collectif Critiquer Foucault. Aux côtés de Mitchell Dean, professeur de sociologie et de …
Daniel Zamora et Mitchel Dean, Le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution. Foucault après Mai 68, Lux, 2019. Will be published in English by Verso in 2020 La dernière décennie de Michel Foucault a coïncidé avec l’agonie des espoirs de transformation sociale qui avaient marqué l’après-guerre. Face à cette «fin de la révolution», …
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Michel Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, edited by Elisabetta Basso – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, forthcoming April 2020. Nothing on the publisher sites yet, but it is listed in online bookstores. More details when available. This is a substantial text by Foucault which seems to have begun as a course at Lille, but…
Toby Svoboda, Foucault on Correspondence as a Technique of the Self, Le foucaldien 6, no. 1 (2020): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.69 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Open access Abstract This paper begins with a discussion of Foucault’s examination of Seneca’s epistles in his late essay, “Self Writing.” I argue that Foucault offers an accurate …
Stephen L. Roberts (2019). Big Data, Algorithmic Governmentality and the Regulation of Pandemic Risk. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 10(1), 94-115. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2019.6 Abstract This article investigates the rise of algorithmic disease surveillance systems as novel technologies of risk analysis utilised to regulate pandemic outbreaks in an era of big data. Critically, the article demonstrates how …
Davis, Mark. “”Is it Going to be Real?” Narrative and Media on a Pandemic.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [Online], 18.1 (2017): n. pag. Web. 2 Feb. 2020 DOI: 10.17169/fqs-18.1.2768 Open access Abstract: In this article, I examine the narrative-media nexus as it relates to pandemics. Communications feature in global public health …
Knudsen, Sine Grønborg, and Peter Triantafillou. “Lifestylisation of the Social: The Government of Diabetes Care in Denmark.” Health, (January 2020). doi:10.1177/1363459319899454. Abstract: Since the 1970s, the public authorities of many OECD countries have emphasised the need for preventing lifestyle diseases and promoting the vigour of their populations. Based on the Foucauldian analytics of dispositive, we …
Eric Schliesser, Foucault on the Idea of Europe (and Adam Smith, Hume & Kant), Digressions and Impressions, blog, 4 December 2019 [Editor Update 9 March 2026. Link above is to the page archived on the Wayback Machine] […] Foucault correctly discern the significance of Kant’s Perpetual Peace to Ordoliberal thought. (He mentions Kant’s essay on …
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