Foucault News

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

Any Answers: Christian Caujolle, Interview with Michael GrieveBritish Journal of Photography, 21 August 2017 The chief picture editor of Libération between 1981 and 1986, Christian Caujoulle left to co-found Agence Vu’ and, a decade later, Galerie Vu’. He has curated and edited countless photofestivals, exhibitions, and books, and is associate professor at the ENS Louis …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Leçon inaugurale de Michel Foucault – L’ordre du discours Quelle est cette volonté de vérité dans nos discours, qui a traversé tant de siècles de notre histoire ? demande Michel Foucault dans sa leçon inaugurale. Qu’est ce qui est en jeu, sinon le désir et le pouvoir? Quelles sont les…

Frieder Vogelmann (2017). Critique as a practice of prefigurative emancipation. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 18(2), 196–214.. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2017.1359645 ABSTRACT Although the various interpretations of Foucault’s model of critique often seem to differ only in minor details, they seriously diverge by situating critique on different levels of abstraction in Foucault’s work. Mapping interpretations of Foucault’s critique …

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Ariel Handel and Hilla Dayan, Multilayered surveillance in Israel/Palestine: Dialectics of inclusive exclusion, Surveillance and Society, Vol 15 No 3/4 (2017): Surveillance and the Global Turn to Authoritarianism Abstract The paper examines the surveillance apparatuses in Israel/Palestine as mechanisms aiming to secure support for the Israeli regime, and to preserve its domination over the entire …

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Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting personal: how biosecurity gets under our skin., Green European Journal Volume 15, April 2017 Review of Frédéric Gros’s book Le Principe Sécurité (The Security Principle, 2012). The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will …

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Barker, D., Quennerstedt, M. Power and group work in physical education: A Foucauldian perspective (2017) European Physical Education Review, 23 (3), pp. 339-353. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15620716 Abstract Group work is used in physical education (PE) to encourage student-directed, collaborative learning. Aligned with this aim, group work is expected to shift some power from teacher to students …

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Michel Foucault on prisons, power and the origin of our beliefs  Big Thinkers series by The Ethics Centre, 13 July 2017 Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher, historian and psychologist whose work explored the underlying power relationships in a range of our modern institutions. Given Foucault’s focus on the ways institutions wield power over us, …

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Öhman, M. Losing touch – Teachers’ self-regulation in physical education (2017) European Physical Education Review, 23 (3), pp. 297-310. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15622159 Abstract The question of physical interaction is especially relevant in school physical education, where a lot of the teaching and activities are based on body movements. However, the issue of ‘touching’ has been questioned …

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