Foucault News

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

Leask, I. Was there a theological turn in phenomenology? (2018) Philosophy Today, 62 (1), pp. 149-162. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday201837205 Abstract This article examines the possibility that phenomenology was “always already” a theological enterprise, by outlining some of the foundational criticisms levelled by Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser. For both thinkers, the phenomenological stress on “lived experience” …

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Clapham, A., Vickers, R. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: exploring ‘teaching for mastery’ policy borrowing (2018) Oxford Review of Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1450745 Abstract Mathematics education is a high-stakes indicator of success in ‘über’ performative systems. The search to address England’s mathematics underperformance resulted in cross-national attraction toward, and …

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Waller, C. ‘Darker than the Dungeon’: Music, Ambivalence, and the Carceral Subject (2018) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 31 (2), pp. 275-299. DOI: 10.1007/s11196-018-9558-9 Abstract Music’s sanctioned role in the day-to-day running of the ‘late-modern’ prison is to ensure wellbeing and compliance of prisoners, with most regimes facilitating access to music through the …

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Mameni, S. What are the Iranians wishing for? Queer transnational solidarity in revolutionary Iran (2018) Signs, 43 (4), pp. 955-978. DOI: 10.1086/696628 Abstract This article explores the role of desire in Iran’s revolutionary movement. In a series of essays on the 1979 revolution, Michel Foucault asked, “What are the Iranians dreaming about?” This article takes …

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‘Showing that scientific demonstration is basically only a ritual, that the supposedly universal subject of knowledge is really only an individual historically qualified according to certain modalities, and that the discovery of truth is really a certain modality of the production of truth; putting what is given as the truth of observation or demonstration back …

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Marcela Renée Becerra Batán, Epistemología histórica y técnicas de sí. El psicoanálisis del conocimiento objetivo y la vigilancia epistemológica (Bachelard) y las técnicas de sí (Foucault), Epistemología e Historia de la Ciencia, ISSN 2525-1198, 2 (2), 2018. Open access RESUMEN Este trabajo se sitúa en el marco de una indagación acerca del estilo de la …

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Stehr, N., Adolf, M.T. Knowledge/Power/Resistance (2018) Society, 55 (2), pp. 193-198. DOI: 10.1007/s12115-018-0232-3 Abstract Francis Bacon’s famous metaphor that knowledge is power has been the intellectual springboard for many scholars to offer misleading observations about the inordinate authority and power of knowledge. Among the important implications that Bacon derives from his metaphor is the assertion …

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Kawasaka, K. Contradictory Discourses on Sexual Normality and National Identity in Japanese Modernity (2018) Sexuality and Culture, 22 (2), pp. 593-613. DOI: 10.1007/s12119-017-9485-z Abstract This paper aims to analyse the relationship between discourses of gender/sexuality and construction of national identity and normativity in Japan. Firstly, I will analyse discourses of two influential theorists of queer …

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Macedo, E. WADA and imperialism? A philosophical look into anti-doping and athletes as coloniser and colonised (2018) International Journal of Sport Policy, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2017.1383930 Abstract Post-colonial philosophical scholarship in the late 20th century advanced notions of exploitation and domination of the periphery post imperialistic control. Works by authors Peter Ekeh …

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