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

María Alejandra Energici, Afectividad y subjetividad femenina: análisis de la gordura como código moral, Límite. Revista Interdisciplinaria de Filosofía y Psicología, Volumen 13, Nº 43, 2018, pp. 17-28 Open access on Academia.edu Affectivity and female subjectivity: an analysis of fatness as a moral code RESUMEN El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar que en la …

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Keohane, K., Grace, V. What is ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’? The ‘Auguste D’ Case Re-opened, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Volume 43, Issue 2, 15 June 2019, Pages 336-359 DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09622-z Abstract What is Alzheimer’s: an organic, neuropathological psychiatric disease, caused by plaques and tangles in aging brains or/and an existential condition affecting the minds of aging persons …

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Foucault Studies Number 26, June 2019 Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe PDF i-iv Articles Altering absence: From race to empire in readings of Foucault Claire Cosquer PDF 1-20 Governing Goods, Bodies and Minds: The Biopolitics of Spain during the Francoism (1939-1959) Salvador Cayuela PDF 21-41 How Parrhesia Works through Art The Elusive Role …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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