Foucault News

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

Keck, C.S. Radical educations in subjectivity: the convergence of psychotherapy, mysticism and Foucault’s ‘politics of ourselves’ (2019) Ethics and Education, 14 (1), pp. 102-115. DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2018.1554789 Abstract Foucault’s invitation to the subject is to become free of themselves by learning to think differently. Such a project has as its goal the mastery of the self, …

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Leman-Langlois, S. State Mass Spying as Illegalism (2018) Critical Criminology, 26 (4), pp. 545-561. DOI: 10.1007/s10612-018-9421-z Abstract Periodic revelations about the workings of data interception, analysis and collection in Canada have each time prompted successive administrations to amend laws and regulations in order to calm public opinion. This has been referred to as “accountability through …

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Anton Lee (2018) Review: The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, History of Photography, 42:3, 306-308. DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2018.1531600 Review of the exhibition catalog The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, edited by Brian Wallis (Göttingen: Steidl, 2015) [,,,] The paucity of serious attention to The Order of Things is curious, given …

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Call for papers Rencontres Doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 11-13 septembre 2019 IMEC – Caen L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose pour la 8ème année une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est comme les années précédentes de mettre en relation, …

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Janaka Siyambalapitiya, Xu Zhangand Xiaobing Liu, Is governmentality the missing link for greening the economic growth? (2018) Sustainability (Switzerland), 10 (11), art. no. 4204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114204 Abstract The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the green growth research …

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Cleland, J., Cashmore, E. Nothing Will Be the Same Again After the Stade de France Attack: Reflections of Association Football Fans on Terrorism, Security and Surveillance (2018) Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 42 (6), pp. 454-469. DOI: 10.1177/0193723518797028 Abstract Following the attempted terrorist attack at the friendly match between France and Germany at the …

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Jean-François Bert, « Michel Foucault défenseur de l’ethnologie. « La magie – le fait social total », une leçon inédite des années 1950 », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 281-303. https://doi.org/10.3917/zil.002.0281 Les milliers de pages de notes manuscrites de Michel Foucault, conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), donnent à voir un …

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Foucault, Michel. « La magie – le fait social total », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 305-326. DOI 10.3917/zil.002.0305 – Rapport à la société – Rapport à la technique qu’elle imite. – Rapport à la société D’un côté opposition à la société – Ségrégation du magicien dans la société, ce qui n’arrive pas …

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Grohmangrohman, S. Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics (2018) HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8 (3), pp. 506-521. DOI: 10.1086/701113 Open access Abstract Anthropologists working on ethics have emphasized the importance of freedom for the becoming of ethical subjects. While some have therefore aligned themselves with the later work …

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Antonio Pele, La méditation : le nouvel « esprit » du capitalisme ? , The Conversation, February 12, 2019 Abstract Je souhaiterais identifier les rapports entre la méditation et nos sociétés actuelles. Je ne cherche pas à critiquer la méditation mais à comprendre les raisons de l’enthousiasme qu’elle génère aujourd’hui. Comment cette pratique, qui fut …

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