Foucault News

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

Chiang, T.-H., Achaa, L.O., Ball, S.J. Activating self-monitoring through the discourse of fear and hope: The subjectivation of enterprising teachers (2024) International Journal of Educational Research, 125, art. no. 102324 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102324 Abstract Drawing upon Foucault’s governmentality, this study sets out to explore how enterprising subjects constituted through self-monitoring are fashioned in the epoch of …

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FOUCAULT STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS Critique beyond criticism: Crisis and potentials of critique in critical times PDF of call for papers Special issue editors Sverre Raffnsøe, Copenhagen Business School Daniele Lorenzini, University of Pennsylvania Dorthe Staunæs, University of Aarhus Martina Tazzioli, University of Bologna Submission deadlines: Abstract: January 1st, 2025 Article: July 1st, …

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Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty. Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy, Columbia University Press, 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the …

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Vertelyte, M., Li, J.H. Friendship pedagogies as technologies of power: deploying friendship to foster participation of racially minoritized students in Danish education (2024) Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2024.2317725 Abstract This article explores how friendship relations have been used in approaches to the participation of racially minoritized students in Danish schools from the 1970s …

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Martin Duru, “Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983” : les bonnes ondes de Michel Foucault, Philosophie Magazine, 22 octobre 2024 « On écrit pour n’avoir plus de visage », disait-il. Là-bas il n’en avait plus, de visage, il n’y était plus qu’une voix (presque) anonyme, et c’est peut-être pour cette raison que Foucault aimait tant y aller : …

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Ritts, M., Simlai, T., Gabrys, J. The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests (2024) Political Geography, 110, art. no. 103074 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103074 Abstract The rise of digital acoustic monitoring is having transformative effects within forest conservation geographies and practices. By featuring divergent acoustic signals (a gunshot, a bird call) …

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Landenne, Quentin, et Emmanuel Salanskis, éd. Les métamorphoses de la « généalogie » après Nietzsche. Bruxelles: Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pusl.28428. Open access Les contributions réunies dans ce volume visent à explorer le champ des postérités généalogiques de Nietzsche. Dans cette perspective, il convient d’abord de faire une nette distinction entre la dimension programmatique …

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Cotter, S. Chomsky versus Foucault, and the Problem of Knowledge in Translation (2023) Know, 7 (2), pp. 171-183. DOI: 10.1086/727781 Extract […] With the advantage of several decades on Said’s 1999 essay, we may compare the Reflexive Water translation with the original debate, available on YouTube.13 Despite occasional markers of conversational verisimilitude (“yeah” or “may …

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Seminar: Resistance and Pleasure in Foucault: Recovering a Lost Connection? The University of Warwick invites you to a two-day seminar exploring the connections between resistance and pleasure through Michel Foucault’s thought. This seminar is part of the World Congress Foucault: 40 Years After series. Event Information Date: Friday, October 25th 2024 Location: Ramphal Building R1.13, University of …

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