Foucault News

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

Pubblicato online l’e.book: Moneta, rivoluzione e filosofia dell’avvenire. Nietzsche e la politica accelerazionista in Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski, Guattari (Obsolete Capitalism Free Press – Rizosfera, 2016). Link at Variazioni foucaultiane L’antologia a cura di Obsolete Capitalism è scaricabile online gratuitamente. Autori e autrici: Algorithmic Committee, Sara Baranzoni, Edmund Berger, Lapo Berti, Paolo Davoli, Network Ensemble, Letizia …

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Kelvin T. Knight, Placeless places: resolving the paradox of Foucault’s heterotopia (2016) Textual Practice, 31(1), 141–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2016.1156151 ABSTRACT This article looks to restore Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to its literary origins, and to thereby resolve the paradox that exists between Foucault’s various definitions of the term. Described by Foucault as both an unimaginable …

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Special Issue: Foucault Meets EU Studies Global Society (2016), Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 387-506. Table of contents: Introduction: Foucault Meets EU Studies Lucie Chamlian & Dirk Nabers The Colonisation of the Future: Power, Knowledge and Preparedness in CSDP Lucie Chamlian Exploring the Security/Facilitation Nexus: Foucault at the `Smart´ Border Matthias Leese Knots, Port Authorities …

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Thanasis Lagios, Foucauldian Genealogy and Maoism 20th March 2015 | 12:00 – 12:45 Conference paper, audio podcast on The Voice Republic site Thanasis Lagios studied Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology (specialization: Philosophy), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1998 – 2003). Having completed his postgraduate studies (MA) in Political Philosophy at the University …

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McMahon, J., Barker-Ruchti, N. The media’s role in transmitting a cultural ideology and the effect on the general public (2016) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 8 (2), pp. 131-146. DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2015.1121912 Abstract Previous research investigating Australian swimming culture revealed a deeply entrenched ‘slim to win’ ideology, a notion that is centred on the …

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Des jardins autres, L’Harmattan , Sous la direction de Alexandre Néné et Sarah Carmo Archives Karéline ENVIRONNEMENT, NATURE, ÉCOLOGIE PHILOSOPHIEURBANISME, AMÉNAGEMENT, SOCIOLOGIE URBAINE ISBN : 978-2-35748-111-4 • mai 2015 • 324 pages L’extension des villes, la dissolution de leur espace et le phénomène de périurbanisation font du jardin une composante du paysage urbain de plus …

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Elise Hunkin, Deploying Foucauldian genealogy: Critiquing ‘quality’ reform in early childhood policy in Australia, Power and Education March 1, 2016 8: 35-53 doi: 10.1177/1757743815624114 Abstract The last two decades have seen the emergence of a global education paradigm that has reimagined education through the lens of neo-liberal ideology. Education policy agendas and discourses in current …

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Ole B. Jensen, New ‘Foucauldian Boomerangs’: Drones and Urban Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 14, No 1 (2016) Full PDF Abstract This paper uses the metaphor of ‘boomerangs’ articulated by Michel Foucault to discuss the potential for drones to become the ‘next layer’ of urban surveillance in our cities. Like earlier Western technologies and techniques …

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