Droz-Dit-Busset, O., Spilioti, T. “Getting personal with you” Affect and authenticity in confessional videos of YouTube lifestyle and beauty influencers (2024) Influencer DiscourseAffective relations and identities, Eds. Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company, pp. 278-302. DOI: 10.1075/pbns.349.11dro Abstract Since the Middle Ages, confession has been one of the ‘most highly valued techniques for …
PhD Course: Foucault and Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation – 4 ECTS. Copenhagen Business School Monday 16th June to Thursday 19th June 2025 in Copenhagen. Registration Deadline: Monday 5th May 2025 at 23:55. LINK to registration: https://phdsupport.nemtilmeld.dk/38/ Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Faculty Professor Sverre Raffnsøe Department of Business Humanities and Law, CBS Associate …
Apr 22, 2024 There certainly is a multiplicity of pathways leading from Deleuze (and Guattari) to posthuman thought. This one explores the one leading from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s “vitalism” and his version of the “death of man” to today’s convergence of molecular biology and computer science. Bruno Latour’s actor networks and Donna Haraway’s cyborgs …
Feb 23, 2025 Michel Foucault from A to Z. War is certainly not a central entry in Foucault’s vocabulary. Nevertheless, in his lectures “Society Must Be Defended”, he deals extensively with the hypothesis that the model of war is well suited to analyzing the effects of power. In the end, however, he concludes that this …
Cudworth, E. Resisting Zoopolis: Bordering species relations as a response to COVID-19 (2024) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal, Edited By Josephine Browne, Zoei Sutton, Routledge, pp. 133-150. DOI: 10.4324/9781003257912-12 Abstract Human publics are now more aware than ever of the presence and threat of zoonotic …
Dent, C. Governmentality and the Common Law: Expansion of “Mind” 1835–1885 (2024) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law DOI: 10.1007/s11196-024-10217-0 Abstract The nineteenth century saw significant changes in how the law articulated the assessment of those who came before the courts. The judges made greater, and more refined, use of the concept of the …
Frédéric Gros : “Selon Foucault, la folie n’est rien d’autre que l’inquiétude de la raison”, France Culture, Publié le vendredi 21 février 2025. Radio program, podcast Le philosophe Frédéric Gros nous parle de l’”Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique”, texte qui l’a bouleversé et dans lequel Michel Foucault trace une ligne de crête entre …
Vrdoljak, T. Foucault’s Culturalist Axiomatic: A Nietzschean Naturalist Rejoinder (2024) Nietzsche-Studien DOI: 10.1515/nietzstu-2024-0013 Abstract The Nietzsche-Foucault relationship has been the subject of extensive scholarship, highlighting their affinity. In contrast, this paper foregrounds what I take to be their most significant point of divergence: it compares Nietzsche’s naturalist to Foucault’s culturalist axiomatic of power. First, I …
Gouverner les âmes et les corps « Cahiers d’études du religieux. Recherches interdisciplinaires » * * * Abstract Ce dossier thématique des Cahiers d’études du religieux a pour objet d’interroger la pertinence du concept foucaldien de gouvernementalité en sciences religieuses. Plus précisément, on se demandera s’il s’agit là d’un concept opératoire pour décrire la relation …
Swiffen, A. From European Roots to Settler Soil: Adapting Foucault’s Biopolitics to Canadian Settler Colonialism (2024) Social and Legal Studies DOI: 10.1177/09646639241288075 Abstract This article examines the applicability of Michel Foucault’s biopolitical theory within the Canadian settler colonial context. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, which describes the shift from sovereign power to the regulation of life …
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