Foucault News

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

Journée d’études internationale MICHEL FOUCAULT ET LA SUBJECTIVATION Organisée par mf / materiali foucaultiani (Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli) avec le soutien de l’EA 4395 « Lettres, Idées, Savoirs » de l’Université Paris-Est Créteil 1er juin 2016, 9h – 18h30 Université Paris-Est Créteil, Salle des Thèses Argumentaire Cette journée d’études internationale se …

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Ecole Doctorale de Philosophie ED 280 Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne Institut des sciences Juridique & Philosophique de la Sorbonne UMR 8103 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Programme 2èmes Journées d’études Epistémologie Historique: une histoire du présent Historical Epistemology: a history of the present 19-20-21 mai 2016 Inscriptions sur https://episthist.hypotheses.org/ Jeudi 19 mai Salle …

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Yngfalk, C. Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2016) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19 (3), pp. 275-295. DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with State …

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Moore, F. ‘A band of public-spirited women’: Middle-class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918 (2016) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41 (2), pp. 149-162. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12114 Abstract In the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the cultural ideal of private and public as separate spheres and a lack of formal …

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Clinton, M.E., Springer, R.A. Foucault’s legacy for nursing: Are we beneficiaries or intestate heirs? (2016) Nursing Philosophy, 17 (2), pp. 119-131. DOI: 10.1111/nup.12113 Abstract Drawing upon selected literature from the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Canada we examine how Foucault’s concepts of ‘episteme’, ‘rupture’ ‘parrhesia’ ‘care of the self’, and ‘problemitization’ have been applied to particular …

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon. Edited and transcribed by Stuart Elden.Theory, Culture & Society May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0263276416640070 Abstract This article is a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and is …

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William Davies: A Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism, Theory Culture and Society, 7 March 2014 The term ‘neoliberalism’ has become increasingly familiar over recent years. The term was relatively unheard-of until the 1990s, but was then adopted principally by the critics of a perceived free market orthodoxy, which was spreading around the world under the auspices …

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Siisiäinen, L. Foucault and Gay Counter-Conduct (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2016.1144567 Abstract In his late work, Michel Foucault elaborates on the notion of resistance in a meticulous fashion, introducing the more precise concept of counter-conduct. This article contributes to this topical discussion within a specific framework: the gay mode of …

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