Foucault News

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

Ettlinger, N., Algorithmic Affordances for Productive Resistance (2018) Big Data & Society, January-June: 1-13 DOI: 10.1177/2053951718771399 Abstract Although overarching if not foundational conceptualizations of digital governance in the field of critical data studies aptly account for and explain subjection, calculated resistance is left conceptually unattended despite case studies that document instances of resistance. I ask …

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A Photo Journey Through Italy’s Abandoned Nightclubs – Noisey By Laura Petillo, translated by Cristina Politano, May 14 2017 Discotex, a new documentary project, offers an audiovisual glimpse into the cathedrals from the glory days of Italian vinyl. […] Melillo’s journey is probably best summarized as a study in understanding a location as an extension …

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The Call for Panels and Roundtables of the 2018 Australian Anthropological Society conference, to be held 4-7 December at the Cairns campus of James Cook University,  has been extended till the 23rd of May. We welcome proposals that engage directly or indirectly with the conference theme – Life in an Age of Death. Conference website: https://www.aasconf.org/2018/ If you have …

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Philippe-Joseph Salazar, The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse (2018) Javnost – The Public, 25(1–2), 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2018.1423947 Abstract This paper suggests ways to examine the American Alt-Right as a community of discourse. It relies on Michel Foucault’s notion that discourse is marked by external procedures of prohibition, division and will to truth, and it shows …

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John Iliopoulos, The History of Reason in the Age of Madness: Foucault’s Enlightenment and a Radical Critique of Psychiatry Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 The History of Reason in the Age of Madness revolves around three axes: the Foucauldian critical-historical method, its relationship with enlightenment critique, and the way this critique is implemented in Foucault’s seminal work, …

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Connor Richards: Demonstrating Politics Through Music – Daily Utah Chronicle, November 17, 2017 Extract The tradition of using music to make social commentary is being kept alive by American post-metal band ISIS. Post-metal, as a genre, is described by ISIS frontman and lyricist Aaron Turner as being a “thinking man’s metal.” The 2004 album Panopticon …

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68, année philosophique ? (1/4) : Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida: les « nouveaux » philosophes LES CHEMINS DE LA PHILOSOPHIE par Adèle Van Reeth, 23/04/2018 podcast La philosophie française est étroitement associée à l’événement de MAI 68. Preuve en est : Les mots des philosophes descendent dans la rue et se retrouvent placardés aux murs! Frédéric …

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Lassen, I. Resisting dehumanization: citizen voices and acts of solidarity (2018) Critical Discourse Studies, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2018.1441038 Abstract Recent years have seen an increase in the influx of asylum-seekers in Scandinavia, and in Denmark this has led to ever-tighter immigration control. This article discusses emerging practices of refugee solidarity and resistance …

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