Foucault News

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

Torrano, A. Werewolves in the immunitary paradigm (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 153-173. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2016113102 Abstract This article problematizes the political category of the monster in Hobbes’s thought from a biopolitical perspective. Even though political thought has been tra-ditionally focused on Leviathan’s figure as a political monster, here we pay particular attention to the …

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Marianne Fenech and Jennifer Sumsion, Early Childhood Teachers and Regulation: Complicating Power Relations Using a Foucauldian Lens, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, June 2007 vol. 8 no. 2 109-122 doi: 10.2304/ciec.2007.8.2.109 Abstract This article both supports and complicates the positioning of reconceptualists who frame the regulation of early childhood services as repressive. Drawing on Foucault’s …

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Gray, E.M., Harris, A., Jones, T. Australian LGBTQ teachers, exclusionary spaces and points of interruption (2016) Sexualities, 19 (3), pp. 286-303. DOI: 10.1177/1363460715583602 Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) teachers are a marginalised group that historically have been absent from research on sexuality and schooling. Rather, much research in the field has focused …

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Aggerholm, K. On practising in sport: towards an ascetological understanding of sport (2016) Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2016.1159917 Abstract Within the philosophy of sport, the phenomenon of practising (askēsis) has received very little attention, whereas other related aspects of sport such as excellence (aretē) and competition (agon) …

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Foucault, Political Life and History – Workshop 5 Friday April 22nd 2015 11.00 – 16.00 London School of Economics Room CLM.1.02 , first floor, Clement House, The Aldwych We are very happy to confirm the programme for the next workshop. [10:15 approx] Dr Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) : “System-Cybernetic Governmentality: Depoliticisation of Scientific Governance During …

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Waitt, G., Roggeveen, K., Gordon, R., Butler, K., Cooper, P. Tyrannies of thrift: Governmentality and older, low-income people’s energy efficiency narratives in the Illawarra, Australia (2016) Energy Policy, 90, pp. 37-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.11.033 Abstract Social scientists are arguing that energy policies should pay more attention to everyday life to address energy efficiency. Scholars are now …

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Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Monetary conformation of the corporate governmentality III Description of the monetary system, Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance, 4(2), 2016, 18-41 DOI: 10.15604/ejef.2016.04.02.003 Full PDF available Abstract This paper describes the current monetary system, identifying different components and the relationship between them. It is part of the Foucaultian approach of power relations …

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Eduardo Rivera Vicencio, Monetary conformation of the corporate governmentality I From the new art of governing to the beginning of neoliberal governmentality, Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance, 4(2), 2016, 72-90 DOI: 10.15604/ejef.2016.04.02.006 Full PDF available Abstract From the perspective of the Foucaultian approach and using the archaeological and genealogical methodology, this paper describes the …

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Political Science Department and the The France Chicago Center present “Reflections on Foucault’s Lessons on the Will to Know”, with Daniel Defert, Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt Julius Kreeger Professor and, Chairman of the Political Science Department. Daniel Defert edited the French edition of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au Collège de …

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