Foucault News

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

Kathleen Frederickson, Queer speciation: Or, Darwin on and off the farm (2018) Victorian Studies, 60, no. 2 (2018): 228-235.. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.60.2.08 Abstract In the debates over futurity that have pervaded queer theory in the early years of this millennium, the species plot has found less prevalence than it might have done. While Foucaultian biopower continues to …

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Inge Kryger Pedersen, Striving for self-improvement: Alternative medicine considered as technologies of enhancement (2018) Social Theory and Health, 16 (3), pp. 209-223. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-017-0052-3 Abstract The notion of medical enhancement technologies has drawn attention to optimization techniques within the health area. However, this notion has evolved at the level of governmental programmes, with very little attention …

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Jayathilake, C. Muselmann: Incarceration and the mobilised body in Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona’s The Island (2018) African Studies, 77 (4), pp. 607-625. DOI: 10.1080/00020184.2018.1497289 Abstract This article interrogates the status of incarceration, and prisoners’ rights or the lack thereof, as represented in South African dramatist Athol Fugard’s Anglophone play-text, The Island (1993)–co-authored …

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Menzies, F.G., Santoro, N. ‘Doing’ gender in a rural Scottish secondary school: an ethnographic study of classroom interactions (2018) Ethnography and Education, 13 (4), pp. 428-441. DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2017.1351386 Abstract This article draws on data from an ethnographic case study that examined how pupils’ gendered identities are constructed in one rural secondary school in Scotland. We …

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Performance | The Disorder of Discourse: Restaging a Michel Foucault Lecture Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 7:00 pm Free Because of the radical nature of his work, Michel Foucault’s 1969 appointment to a chair at the prestigious College de France was a watershed moment in French intellectual life. With actor Guillaume Bailliart, Fanny de Chaille proposes …

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Un essai relance la querelle sur Foucault et le néolibéralisme, Entretien avec Daniel Zamora et Mitchell Dean par Mathieu Dejean, Les inrockuptibles, 22 août 2019 Cet article est réservé aux abonnés Les sociologues Mitchell Dean et Daniel Zamora poursuivent le débat sur Michel Foucault et le néolibéralisme dans un essai critique, “Le dernier homme et …

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How Michel Foucault Got Neoliberalism So Wrong, An Interview With Daniel Zamora. Interview by Kévin Boucaud-Victoire. Translation By Seth Ackerman, Jacobin, 09.06.2019 In the emerging neoliberalism of the 1970s, Michel Foucault saw the promise of a new social order, more open to individual autonomy and experimental ways of living. That’s not how things turned out. …

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Daniel Zamora : « La résistance chez Foucault ne prend plus vraiment le visage de la lutte des classes » Par Kévin “L’impertinent” Boucaud-Victoire Le 5 Septembre 2019, Le Comptoir English translation in Jacobin Dans « Le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution : Foucault après Mai 68 » (Lux, 2019), co-écrit avec Mitchell Dean, Daniel Zamora …

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Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power‘, The Sociological Review, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119870107 (requires subscription) In September 1966, 10 years after Tunisia officially gained independence from French colonial rule, Michel Foucault took up a three-year secondment, teaching philosophy at the University of Tunis. This article offers an account…

Sabina F. Vaccarino Bremner, (2019) Anthropology as critique: Foucault, Kant and the metacritical tradition, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2019.1650250 ABSTRACT While increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the relation between Foucault’s conception of critique and Kant’s, much controversy remains over whether Foucault’s most sustained early engagement with Kant, his …

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