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

Collective subjectivations and desubjectivations in the present (2017)

12 October 2017

Jean-Philippe Bouilloud, Ghislain Deslandes & Guillaume Mercier, The Leader as Chief Truth Officer: The Ethical Responsibility of “Managing the Truth” in Organizations Journal of Business Ethics, 157, 1–13 (2019). Published online 2017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3678-0 Abstract Our aim is to analyze the position of the leader in relation to the ethical dimension of truth-telling within the organization …

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Paul Macneill, Balancing bioethics by sensing the aesthetic (2017) Bioethics, 31 (8), pp. 631-643. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12390 Abstract This article is critical of “bioethics” as it is widely understood and taught, noting in particular an emphasis given to philosophical justification, reason and rationality. It is proposed that “balancing” bioethics be achieved by giving greater weight to practice …

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Jordan, T. A genealogy of hacking (2017) Convergence, 23 (5), pp. 528-544. DOI: 10.1177/1354856516640710 Abstract Hacking is now a widely discussed and known phenomenon, but remains difficult to define and empirically identify because it has come to refer to many different, sometimes incompatible, material practices. This article proposes genealogy as a framework for understanding hacking …

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Vappereau, M. (2014). Les Carnets de René Allio : une nécessaire publication. Sociétés & Représentations, 37,(1), 179-193. doi:10.3917/sr.037.0179. Les événements de la fin de l’année 2013, depuis le colloque de novembre à l’INHA jusqu’à l’exposition au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, permirent de faire redécouvrir René Allio, peintre, scénographe et cinéaste du second xxe siècle, et …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s The Punitive Society lecture course and my Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton. It’s a long, thoughtful and generous review. As well as saying many insightful things about the books reviewed, it’s also a good meditation on Foucault’s enduring impact today.…

Nathan W. Harter, Foucault on Leadership. The Leader as Subject, Routledge, 2016 Description Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for …

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Richard Niesche, Amanda Keddie, Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice, Routledge, 2016 Description Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges …

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