Foucault News

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

Gordon Hull, Foucault’s “Analytic Philosophy of Politics”, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 02 July 2018 The current issue of Foucault Studies contains the first English translation of a lecture Foucault gave in Japan in 1978.  This “Analytic Philosophy of Politics” is essential reading if you have an interest in the transition between Foucault’s “power” and “ethics” work and/or …

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Interview with Shelley Tremain by Dave O’Brien on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, University of Michigan Press 2017 September 11, 2018 Podcast, New Books Network How should we understand disability? In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Dr. Shelley Tremain explores this complex question from the perspective of feminist …

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Seyla Benhabib, Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach. Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, Boston Review, A political and literary forum, October 09, 2018 […] The Dialectic of Enlightenment is a bridge text to a broader conception of critical theory—of oppositional and emancipatory knowledge—that emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century. Although Michel …

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Alessandro Baccarin, Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, Archeoligia filosofica laboritorio. Un pò di storiaIl laboratorio, l’associazione, gli scritti, la collana editoriale Tre anni fa abbiamo iniziato a ragionare intorno alla possibilità di rendere quello strano campo della ricerca filosofica che ha nome “archeologia filosofica”, un vero e proprio spazio di elaborazione. Nasce così il *Laboratorio “archeologia filosofica”*, …

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Orazio Irrera, La raison nègre et le corps d’extraction. Esprit, n. 450, décembre 2018, pp. 100-105. En combinant le schéma marxiste de l’accumulation primitive et la biopolitique foucaldienne, Achille Mbembe propose une généalogie du sujet de race comme « corps d’extraction ». Un des aspects les plus remarquables du projet annoncé par un ouvrage comme Critique …

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Matko Krce-Ivančić (2018) Governing through anxiety. Journal for Cultural Research, 22(3), 262–277. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1537587 ABSTRACT This article examines anxiety, arguing that it is a systemic feature of neoliberalism which regenerates the economy and acts in a conservative manner, thereby effectively preventing social change. Anxiety is explored using psychoanalytic theory to extend Foucault’s conception of neoliberal governmentality …

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Marc Schuilenburg and Rik Peeters, Smart cities and the architecture of security: pastoral power and the scripted design of public space, City Territory and Architecture (2018) 5, 13 DOI10.1186/s40410-018-0090-8 Abstract The architecture of security is often thought of in terms of situational crime prevention and defensible space. In this article, we argue that the emergence …

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Francescomaria Tedesco, Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance, Routledge, 2018 Description When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary. And yet, upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose …

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Randell-Moon, H., 2018. Digital Cartography Enterprise: Neoliberalism, Governmentality and Digital Infrastructure. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 13(2), pp.77–95. DOI:http://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.293 Abstract The Gigatown competition (2013–2015) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a New Zealand town ‘the fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a social media …

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  materiali foucaultiani volume VI, number 11-12 (January-December 2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS Le confessioni della carne  (pp. 3-6) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Michel Foucault et la subjectivation Introduzione. Soggettivazione e assoggettamento, a partire da Foucault  (pp. 9-14)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Subjectivité et normativité …

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