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

Wang, C., Wang, S. Educating the Autonomous Learner in a Confucian School: Subjectivity, Memorisation, and Dilemma (2023) China Perspectives, 2023 (135), pp. 61-70. Abstract The current literature on Chinese governmentality and subjectivity lacks rigorous discussion of the involvement of Confucian education. This article applies Foucauldian conceptual tools to explore this scholarship gap empirically. Based on …

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Vint, S. Biopolitics and Bioethics (2023) The Oxford Handbook of: New Science Fiction Cinemas, Ed. J. P. Telotte, Oxford University Press, pp. 193-205. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.12 Abstract This chapter outlines ideas central to biopolitical theory and demonstrates how they have proven especially useful for analyzing science fiction (sf) films, particularly those concerned with the social reproduction …

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Gordon, J. Heterotopias The Oxford Handbook of: New Science Fiction Cinemas, Ed. J. P. Telotte, Oxford University Press, (2023) pp. 101-112. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.6 Abstract Drawing on the intellectual archaeologies of Michel Foucault, the notion of the heterotopic-of the other place that is neither utopian nor dystopian, and of the other figures who might inhabit such …

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PhD course: Foucault: Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation – 4 ECTS Copenhagen: Monday 16 June 2025 at 09:00 to Thursday 19 June 2025 at 16:00 Registration Deadline: Monday 5 May 2025 at 23:55. Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Faculty Professor Sverre Raffnsøe Department of Business Humanities and Law, CBS Associate …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, The Incomputability of Calculation: Wittgenstein, Turing and the Question of Artificial Intelligence, Newsletter on the Results of Scholarly Work in Sociology, Criminology, Philosophy and Political Science, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024). Special Issue Tune-Changing World – Every Single Minute DOI: https://doi.org/10.61439/URSA3237 Open access Abstract Calculation is one of the foundational concepts operating at …

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Colloque international Le(s) Nietzsche de Foucault Autour du volume de Michel Foucault, Nietzsche. Cours, conférences et travaux 17 et 18 décembre 2024 Columbia University | EHESS | Université Paris 8 Événement coorganisé par le Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT), le Columbia Global Paris Center, le Laboratoire IRIS (UMR 8156) de l’École des Hautes …

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Iván Torres Apablaza, Michel Foucault, una lectura posthumanista. Ética, política, porvenir, Alma Negra, 2024 Extracto (PDF) «El lente a través de la cual este trabajo reconstruye la vertiginosa, en ocasiones aparentemente contradictoria y, en todo caso, intrincada trayectoria foucaultiana –permítaseme: uno de los grandes filósofos del siglo XX– es la continuidad del problema, estrictamente filosófico …

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Lee Ludvigsen, J.A. Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans: exploring the mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a stakeholder in the management of circulations (2024) Soccer and Society DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332089 Abstract This article explores mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a (safety) stakeholder in the context of European football. It is clear that fans, in the …

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Fennell, D., Guo, Y. Codes of Conduct at Zoos: A Case Study of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (2024) Tourism and Hospitality, 5 (1), pp. 95-111. DOI: 10.3390/tourhosp5010007 Abstract Zoos consistently implement codes of conduct in efforts to manage visitor behaviour. However, few studies have examined the use of the codes of …

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