Foucault News

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

Ana Sofia Elias and Rosalind Gill, Beauty surveillance: The digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism (2018) European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (1), pp. 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417705604 Abstract This article argues that ‘beauty apps’ are transforming the arena of appearance politics and foregrounds a theoretical architecture for critically understanding them. Informed by a feminist-Foucaultian framework, it argues …

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Kélina Gotman (2018) Foucault, Aufklärung, and the Historical ‘Scene’, Parallax, 24:1, 45-61, DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2017.1415257 Beginning of article No philosopher can go without examining his own participation in this us precisely because it is this us which is becoming the object of the philosopher’s own reflection. Michel Foucault, ‘What Is Revolution?’ What does it take to imagine another …

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Confluence Concourse: Call for Publication: Special Issue on “Political Genealogy after Foucault” Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide range …

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‘An incredible transformation’: how rehab, not prison, worked for a US Isis convert | US news | The Guardian Abdullahi Yusuf was having an identity crisis. Culturally marooned between home life with his traditional Somali parents and immersion in his everyday American school life in Minnesota, the Muslim teen gradually found his way to terrorist …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I began 2018 with some shorter pieces to write, which took me away from the focus on The Early Foucault, even though two of them were on Foucault. First was a piece for the American Book Review, which is hosting a set of pieces on ‘Critical Lives’, edited by Robert…

Wendy Luna, Emancipating Intellectual Property from Proprietarianism: Drahos, Foucault, and a Quasi-Genealogy of IP, Genealogy 2018, 2(1), 6; doi:10.3390/genealogy2010006 Abstract This paper argues that Peter Drahos undertakes a partial Foucauldian genealogy by emancipating intellectual property (IP) from proprietarianism. He demonstrates the dominance of proprietarianism in IP by drawing sample practices from trademark, copyright, and patent …

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