Foucault News

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

Whelan, G. Born Political: A Dispositive Analysis of Google and Copyright (2019) Business and Society, 58 (1), pp. 42-73. DOI: 10.1177/0007650317717701 Abstract Google is a complex and complicated political beast with a significant, and often confusing, interest, in copyright matters. On one hand, for example, Google is widely accused of profiting from piracy. On the …

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O’Toole, J. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in Ireland (2019) Fat Studies, 8 (1), pp. 10-24. DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1534463 Abstract The persistence of dominant social and cultural representations of weight loss renders it as normative and necessary, especially for women. One setting in which the goal of weight loss is relentlessly pursued …

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Editor: I usually pass over this kind of material, but Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto has become an influential celebrity in the last few years with a large following. I am posting this in order to draw attention to the increasing volume and popularity of certain …

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Special Issue: Processes of Subjectivation: Biopolitics and the Politics of Literature, Comparative Literature and Culture 20.4 (2018)_ Issue 20.4 (December 2018) Ed. Azucena G. Blanco   The Eventualization of Political Thinking: From the Arab Revolutions to the Trump Era Oscar Barroso The Composition of History: a Critical Point of View of Michel Foucault’s Archaeology Javier …

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Gálvez Aguirre, Javier. “The Composition of History: a Critical Point of View of Michel Foucault’s Archaeology.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 20.4 (2018): DOI:10.7771/1481-4374.3359 Abstract: In “The Composition of History: a Critical Point of View of Michel Foucault’s Archaeology” Javier Gálvez discusses a very specific aspect within the work of Foucault: the role of the …

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Danny Sullivan, What Foucault Can Teach Us About the Schismatic Growth of Comicon Culture | Seattle Weekly, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 […] Philosopher Michel Foucault identified the dangers that face any group as knowledge of its subject matter grows. His The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972) is an attempt to discover the systems of thought that …

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Daniele Lorenzini Benjamin/Foucault : histoire, discontinuité, utopie, Phantasia, Volume 7 – 2018 Résumé Cet article se propose de montrer qu’un dialogue « à distance » entre Benjamin et Foucault peut être construit à partir d’au moins trois thèmes. Premièrement, leur conception du moment présent, ou plus précisément, du rapport vertical que le présent institue avec …

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Tim Christiaens, Financial Neoliberalism and Exclusion with and beyond Foucault, Theory, Culture & Society, December 22, 2018 DOI: 10.1177/0263276418816364 Abstract In the beginning of the 1970s Michel Foucault dismissed the terminology of ‘exclusion’ for his projected analytics of modern power. This rejection has had major repercussions on the theory of neoliberal subject-formation. Many researchers disproportionately …

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