Foucault News

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

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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Call for Papers 10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology:Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices 27-29 March 2025 IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck Organized by: EpistHist Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology https://episthist.hypotheses.org/ Opening lecture: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Ten years ago, the Research Network on the History and Methods of Historical Epistemology, …

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Nildo Avelino, Foucault, Proudhon, Malatesta: Anarquismo e Governamentalidade, Appris Editora, 2024 O livro Foucault, Proudhon, Malatesta: anarquismo e governamentalidade investiga as reflexões do anarquista francês Pierre-Joseph Proudhon e do anarquista italiano Errico Malatesta sobre o exercício do poder governamental, utilizando uma abordagem dos estudos da governamentalidade, noção elaborada por Michel Foucault para designar o campo …

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Radtke, R.I. The laneway: Urbanism through the lens of interiority and heterotopia (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 34-42. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-6 Abstract The laneway is an intimate form of functional space central to the historic evolution of cities. A balance of public and private, fast and slow, interior and …

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Elden, S. Canguilhem, Dumézil, Hyppolite: Georges Canguilhem and his Contemporaries (2024) Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 307 (1), pp. 27-48. DOI: 10.3917/rip.307.0027 Abstract In the original preface to his primary doctoral thesis Folie et déraison, Michel Foucault thanked three men as intellectual mentors and influences on his work. In his inaugural lecture at the Collège de …

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Krylova, A. Foucault, Post-structuralism, and the Fixed “Openness of History” (2024) Modern Intellectual History DOI: 10.1017/S1479244324000088 Abstract Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians’ encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts …

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Special Issue: Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: A Comparison of their Historical Methodologies, ed. Edmund Neill, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Volume 18 (2024): Issue 3 (Nov 2024) Free access Introduction: the Challenge of Arendt and Foucault on History Author: Edmund Neill Restricted Access Reason to Hope? Arendt, Foucault, and the Escape from Politics …

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Scelsa, J.A. The museum: An urban threshold (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 108-115. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-15 Abstract The evolution of the museum is a story of the functional problems of designing spaces for display within a larger framework. The museum has been identified by Michel Foucault as an ‘otherspace,’ …

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Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this …

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Naz, Z. ‘Tick boxes are just tick boxes’: Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a complexity lens (2024) Policy Futures in Education, . DOI: 10.1177/14782103241240542 Abstract This article seeks to provide a new paradigm for questioning how quality and excellence in teaching practices are understood and evaluated. By combining ideas …

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