Foucault News

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

Deborah N. Brewis, Duality and Fallibility in Practices of the Self: The ‘inclusive subject’ in diversity training (2019) Organization Studies, 40 (1), pp. 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618765554 Abstract The concept of ‘inclusion’ has been gaining ground in a field known as equality and diversity work. Scholars have begun to both theorise what this concept means as a …

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Alex Moskowitz, The Production of the Subject: Foucault, Marx, and the Ontology of the Market, Polygraph, Issue 27, 2019. Special Issue: Neoliberalism And Social Reproduction Open Access First paragraph Though Michel Foucault certainly was not the first to write about the primacy of the market within capitalism, few have been able, with such precision, to …

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Izsó, J. Foucault, Simon Springer, and Postneoliberalism (2019) Review of Radical Political Economics, 51 (1), pp. 147-157. DOI: 10.1177/0486613417703200 Abstract Scholarship in Foucauldian governmentality has reemerged as a critical area of contemporary political discourse and has had a pronounced effect on neoliberal and postneoliberal research in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Perhaps the …

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FORMAT19: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Leah Gordon Exhibition at Format 19 Forever//Now Festival of photography FORMAT19 – University of Derby, Derby 15th March – 14th April […] In Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish, the author moves the panopticon beyond a function of discipline into an apparatus of power, a …

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Giltner, T.A. The power unto glory: A Bonaventurean critique of Foucault’s critique of power (2019) Scottish Journal of Theology, 72 (1), pp. 82-97. DOI: 10.1017/S0036930618000686 Abstract This article puts Michel Foucault’s conception of power into critical engagement with that of Bonaventure. For Foucault power is manifested in wills to knowledge or meaning-making in a senseless …

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Valladares, C., Boelens, R. Mining for Mother Earth. Governmentalities, sacred waters an nature’s rights in Ecuador (2019) Geoforum, 100, pp. 68-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.009 Abstract Getting public opinion to see ‘mining’ and ‘Nature’s Rights’ as non-contradictory and even equivalent and harmonious, calls for far-reaching power strategies. Nature was entitled to rights by Ecuador’s Constitution at about …

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Thomas Skorucak, Le courage des gouvernés. Michel Foucault et Hannah Arendt, Paris: CNRS Editions, 2019 En ces temps marqués par la grande désillusion des citoyens face au politique, alors même que l’action collective est plus que jamais nécessaire, n’est-il pas urgent de réactualiser la notion de courage ? Mais comment penser ce courage loin de …

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