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

Rainsborough, M. Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy: A Critical Dialogue with Kant and Foucault, Routledge (2024) Abstract This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry …

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Ratcliffe, J. Genealogy: A conceptual map (2024) European Journal of Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12949 Abstract The blossoming literature on genealogy in recent years has come as somewhat of a pleasant surprise to the historically inclined among us. It has not, however, come without its difficulties. As I see it, the literature on genealogy is guilty of …

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Bigoni, M., Maran, L., Occhipinti, Z. Of power, knowledge and method: The influence of Michel Foucault in accounting history (2024) Accounting History DOI: 10.1177/10323732241243088 Abstract Michel Foucault’s work had a strong influence not only in philosophy but also in a wide range of humanistic and social disciplines, including accounting. Notably, the first studies which brought …

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Disney+ Lands Exclusive French Broadcast Rights to 2025 Oscars, by Ben Croll, Variety, Dec 10, 2024 […] Disney execs also announced a brand new French original, “Surveiller et punir” (a name that plays as a wink to the French title of Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish”). Described as a workplace comedy about a pair of …

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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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