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

Rowe, E., Lubienski, C., Skourdoumbis, A., Gerrard, J., Hursh, D. Templates, typologies and typifications: neoliberalism as keyword (2019) Discourse, 40 (2), pp. 150-161. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1569875 Abstract Neoliberalism as a concept, ideology, or theoretical lens has emerged in the last couple of decades as a monolithic presence in education research, and the social sciences more broadly. …

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Tara Brady, Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups: Cartoon canines in fascistic mission, The Irish Times, May 17, 2019 Review: An apawlling attempt to normalise state-sponsored thuggery During the 1970s in a series of lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault outlined a “secret history of the police”, characterising a force that paid greater attention to …

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SCOTT BRADFIELD, Death Valley acid trips and cocktails with Einstein — The SoCal lives of exiled minds, Los Angeles Times, MAY 17, 2019 “Foucault in California” by Simeon Wade, Heyday, 2019, Over the decades, many intellectuals came to Southern California from somewhere else; and often they came to escape the systems of politics, logic and …

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Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] Foreword by Heather Dundas, Heyday, 2018 In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with …

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Cseke, Á. (2019). Au sujet de l’édition de Michel Foucault, Le courage de la vérité. Quelques remarques du traducteur hongrois. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 2. DOI: 10.16995/lefou.58 Open access. Article in French Abstract This article examines the text edition of the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France before his death in …

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Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond Edited by Stephen W. Sawyer and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins London: Rowman & Littlefield International. Publication Date: Apr 2019 Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy. However, the debate over this relationship …

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Vladislav Suvák (2019) Patočka and Foucault: Taking Care of the Soul and Taking Care of the Self, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50:1, 19-36, DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2018.1495402 ABSTRACT The paper deals with Jan Patočka’s and Michel Foucault’s influential interpretations of the ancient Greek approach to care (epimeleia). At first sight, it might seem that …

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Bartlett, J. y Chao, D. (comps.) (2019). El gobierno como problema: objetos y abordajes en clave de gubernamentalidad. Buenos Aires: TeseoPress. Sinopsis Esta obra se refiere de distintas maneras a los estudios en gubernamentalidad. Así, contiene reflexiones que expanden y profundizan determinados desarrollos de Foucault al respecto, ya sea trabajando en una continuidad a partir …

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Michel Foucault: Um pensamento em movimento, Revista de filosofia Aurora, V. 31, N. 52 (2019) SUMÁRIO Editorial Léo Peruzzo Júnior, Cesar Candiotto, Antonio Valverde DOSSIÊ De Foucault à Butler, en passant par Sartre : l’impossibilité du « nous » ? Philippe Sabot Crítica e coalizão: repensar a resistência com Foucault e Butler André Duarte, Maria …

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Ralf Havertz, Right-Wing Populism and Neoliberalism in Germany: The AfD’s Embrace of Ordoliberalism (2019) New Political Economy, 24 (3), pp. 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2018.1484715 Abstract This article analyses the ambiguous relation between right-wing populism and neoliberalism in Germany. It concentrates on the connections between and convergence of right-wing populism and ordoliberalism, a specific type of neoliberalism that …

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