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Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] – Heyday 2019. This is the famous/infamous memoir of Simeon Wade, with a foreword by Heather Dundas. In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of…
Burchardt, M. Governing religious identities: law and legibility in neoliberalism (2018) Religion, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2018.1482611 Abstract This article explores from a Foucauldian perspective how, in the neoliberal age, religious diversity has become a new form of governmentality that is based on practices of classifying and categorizing people according to religious criteria. …
The 25th issue of Foucault Studies, Foucault and Philosophical Practice, has now been published. (September 2018) The journal is open source. The issue amounts to no less than 23 contributions and a sum total of more than 400 pages. In addition to the special issue on “Foucault and Philosophical Practice”, comprising four articles with a …
Ingrey, J. Problematizing the cisgendering of school washroom space: interrogating the politics of recognition of transgender and gender non-conforming youth (2018) Gender and Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1483492 Abstract This paper examines how transgender and gender non-conforming youth are represented and shaped as specific subjects vis-à-vis the cisgendered problematics of the washroom …
La mort se mérite Un film de Nicolas Drolc – 2017 – 90 minutes French with English subtitles La Mort se Mérite brosse le portrait de Serge Livrozet, figure de la contre-culture française des années 70, ancien plombier, ancien perceur de coffres forts, fondateur avec Michel Foucault du Comité d’Action des Prisonniers, écrivain autodidacte et …
Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil, Carceral Notebooks, vol. 13, 2017 An ensemble of articles written by Brazilian intellectuals on Foucault, especially on his travels to Brazil Open access Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da Fonseca, Power and Resistance: Foucault’s Laboratory in Brazil …
Gordon Hull, Bakhtin’s Carnival, Genealogy, History, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 25 September 2018 Foucault’s use of Nietzsche to make the distinction between history and genealogy in “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” is well-known. What is less well-known, I think (perhaps I am projecting again, but I had forgotten this passage until I saw a note …
Claire Fanger, Inscription on the Heart: Medieval Monastic Practices for Writing Self in God and God in Self, The Side View, October 2018 Michel Foucault’s 1984 essay, “What is enlightenment?”[1] requires readers to keep in view how epistemology and ontology—knowing and being—converge in the subject. Knowledge is the being of the self; knowledge constitutes the self …
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When Foucault va au cinéma came out in 2011, I immediately got hold of a copy. It was a collection of excerpts from Foucault’s interviews about and discussions of films, prefaced by two new introductory essays by Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan. The texts by Foucault, though, were all taken from…
Stephen Legg, (2018). Subjects of truth: Resisting governmentality in Foucault’s 1980s. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, First Published September 25, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818801957 See also Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s Abstract Responding to ongoing concerns that Michel Foucault’s influential governmentality analytics fail to enable the study of ‘resistance’, this paper …
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