A.B. Evans and J. Allen-Collinson, From ‘just a swimmer’ to a ‘swimming mother’: women’s embodied experiences of recreational aquatic activity with pre-school children (2016) Leisure Studies, 35 (2), pp. 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.962593 Abstract Increased academic attention on the gendering of leisure pastimes in recent years has highlighted the centrality of the gendered body in influencing how …
Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and the Political Party 20th March 2015 | 11:00 – 11:45 The talk was given at the conference “Historicizing Foucault: What does this mean?” in Zurich on March 20, 2015. Update October 2025. Unfortunately the audio recording is no longer available. The text below is from the Genealogy + Critique site The …
Death, C. Counter-Conducts as a Mode of Resistance: Ways of “Not Being Like That” in South Africa (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2015.1133566 Abstract This article argues that a “counter-conducts approach”, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, can be used to disaggregate the concept of resistance and highlight how some …
Ege Selin Islekel Ubu-esque sovereign, monstrous individual: Death in biopolitics (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 175-191. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2016113103 Abstract Foucault characterizes the defining feature of modern politics in terms of a new form of power concerned with maximizing life, biopolitics, as opposed to the sovereign right to kill. This characterization becomes problematic, especially when the …
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This is the 26th and probably final update on the writing and production of Foucault’s Last Decade, as I received an advanced copy of the physical book a couple of days ago. Copies should be available in online stores and elsewhere in the next few weeks. A short post on the book…
Raffnsøe, S., Gudmand-Høyer, M., Thaning, M.S. Foucault’s dispositive: The perspicacity of dispositive analytics in organizational research (2016) Organization, 23 (2), pp. 272-298. DOI: 10.1177/1350508414549885 Abstract While Foucault’s work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct …
Death, C. Counter-Conducts as a Mode of Resistance: Ways of “Not Being Like That” in South Africa (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2015.1133566 Abstract This article argues that a “counter-conducts approach”, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, can be used to disaggregate the concept of resistance and highlight how some …
Bert Olivier, Foucault and the courage of truth, Thought Leader, Mail and Guardian, 11 March 2016 The last course that Michel Foucault presented at the Collége de France in 1984, when he was already quite weak (he died in June of that year, and taught until March), was on The Courage of Truth – later …
c’est ici Le corps utopique, variation pour 2 comédiennes Petite forme théâtrale à partir de la conférence radiophonique de Michel Foucault, Le corps utopique. Le samedi 19 mars 2016, de 19h à 21h, dans le cadre d’un café-philo “Le corps entre être et avoir” et en lien avec le projet de la compagnie Nacera Belaza, …
Thamy Ayouch, Foucault pour la psychanalyse : vérité, véridiction, pratiques de soi, in SQUVERER Amos, LAUFER Laurie (dir.), Foucault et la psychanalyse. Quelques questions analytiques à Michel Foucault, Hermann, 2015 Full text on academia.edu « Foucault pour la psychanalyse » peut augurer autant, a contrario , de la condamnation virulente d’une vulgate psychanalytique instituant un « …
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