Foucault News

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

Zhao, Guoping, From the Philosophy of Consciousness to the Philosophy of Difference: The subject for education after humanism, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 47, 2015 – Issue 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1044840 Abstract Biesta has suggested that education after humanism should be interested in existence, not essence, in what the subject can do, not in what the subject …

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Gross, D.M. Rhetoric and the origins of the human sciences: A Foucauldian tale untold (2016) Quarterly Journal of Speech, 102 (3), pp. 225-244. DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2016.1190858 Abstract Michel Foucault’s famous history of the human sciences focused on “the order of things” and in doing so it overwhelmed a rhetorical perspective that can track the arts of …

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Pløger, J. The evental city: Moment, situation, presence (2016) Space and Culture, 19 (3), pp. 260-274. DOI: 10.1177/1206331215595729 Abstract Events are part of everyday life and cities, and cities’ experience economy. Affect and emotions – real or imagined, collective or subjective, lived or dreamed – are crucial issues to events, including being insecure on what …

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Clare O’Farrell, Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016) Date: Tuesday, 30th August 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm Location: A Block, Level 3, Conference Room 330 QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PDF Flyer This paper was originally delivered as a keynote presentation to the Foucault @ 90 conference at Ayr in …

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Haider, J. The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control (2016) Environmental Communication, 10 (4), pp. 473-491. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.993416 Full text available Abstract This article studies environmental information as it circulates in social media, specifically in personal blogs and microblogs. It rests on a thematic analysis of a selection of …

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Toby Seddon, Inventing Drugs: A Genealogy of a Regulatory Concept, Journal of Law and Society, 11 August 2016 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2016.00760.x Open access: Full PDF available Abstract The trade in, and consumption of, illicit drugs is perhaps the archetypal ‘wicked problem’ of our time – complex, globalized, and seemingly intractable – and presents us with one …

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Hannah, M.G. State knowledge and recurring patterns of state phobia: From fascism to post-politics (2016) Progress in Human Geography, 40 (4), pp. 476-494. DOI: 10.1177/0309132515596875 Abstract This paper identifies some key underlying assumptions of critical political analysis by examining two moments that have brought these assumptions to the fore: the Klaus Croissant affair in West …

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Gerdin, G. The disciplinary and pleasurable spaces of boys’ PE – The art of distributions (2016) European Physical Education Review, 22 (3), pp. 315-335. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15610352 Abstract In taking heed of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ in social theory this paper explores how the spatial intersects with boys’ performances of gender and (dis)pleasures in school physical …

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Jan Christoph Suntrup, Michel Foucault and the Competing Alethurgies of Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2016) doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqw019 First published online: August 9, 2016 Abstract Law has an epistemic dimension, contributing to the social construction of reality. Legal trials stage the constitution of knowledge, facts and other kinds of truth in accordance with specified …

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