Then & Now Published on May 30, 2019 In this introduction to Foucault I look at the poststructuralist philosopher’s influences and context (Nietzsche, Levi-Strauss & Sartre, among others), and summarise his position through his three most influential works, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality. Foucault’s thought takes two approaches …
Sidorova, M., Nazarov, D., Vakhrushina, M. The Enlightenment as determinant of accounting change: The case of royal estate bookkeeping during the reign of Catherine II (2019) Accounting History, 24 (2), pp. 185-211. DOI: 10.1177/1032373218814269 Abstract Foucault studied the change in the governmental practices of European countries under the influence of Enlightenment. The transition from intuitive …
Joshua S. Hanan, Subjects of Technology: An Auto-Archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Neoliberal Time(s) (2019) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 19 (2), pp. 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708618807264 Abstract This essay (re)presents my own experiences living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child and adult to provide a radically historical, contextual, and critical autoethnographic conceptualization of …
Sam Sellar and Lew Zipin, Conjuring optimism in dark times: Education, affect and human capital (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (6), pp. 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1485566 Abstract This paper analyses how the discursive construction, valuation and subjective experience of human capital is evolving in parallel with crises of capital as a world-system. Ideology critique provides tools …
Michel Foucault from A to Z. Foucault on Jeremy Bentham the auto-icon, the utilitarian and the inventor of the panopticon…
Duncan Kelly, Foucault investigates, Times Literary Supplement, MAY 17, 2017 Duncan Kelly on the prodigious output of a writer who has influenced disciplines from classics to politics to psychology Review Michel Foucault OEUVRES, I & II, Edited by Frédéric Gros et al. In 1970, after various appointments in France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Tunisia, the …
Catherine M. Soussloff discusses her book Foucault on Painting, This Is Not A Pipe Podcast, April 25, 2019 Catherine M. Soussloff discusses her book Foucault on Painting with Chris Richardson. Soussloff, Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz is the author of Foucault …
Colin Koopman, How We Became Our Data. A Genealogy Of The Informational Person. University of Chicago Press, 2019 We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people …
Michel Foucault on “Les aveux de la chair” (2019) Theoretical Puppets Published on Jun 3, 2018 Foucault speaks about his new book and the avowals of a chair…
Stephen J Ball (2019). A horizon of freedom: Using Foucault to think differently about education and learning. Power and Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757743819838289 Abstract Building on the work of others, this article sketches out what a Foucauldian ‘education’ might look like in practice, considers some of the challenges, paradoxes and (im)possibilities with which such an ‘education’ would face …
