Magnus Paulsen Hansen, Non-normative critique. Foucault and pragmatic sociology as tactical re-politicization, European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1, 127-145 doi: 10.1177/1368431014562705 Abstract The close ties between modes of governing, subjectivities and critique in contemporary societies challenge the role of critical social research. The classical normative ethos of the unmasking researcher …
Samta P Pandya, Governmentality and guru-led movements in India, Some arguments from the field, European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1, 74-93 doi: 10.1177/1368431015602355 Abstract The concept of governmentality has a textual and philosophical basis as well as being concerned with what might be called the practices of government. This article …
Bowen Paulle, Beneath rationalization: Elias, Foucault, and the body,European Journal of Social Theory February 2016 vol. 19 no. 1 39-56 doi: 10.1177/1368431015602355 Abstract Elias and Foucault ended up making the same core discovery about the same fundamental social process, which we term the ‘social constraints towards self-discipline’ process. We show how three distinct biographical and …
Thamy Ayouch, Psychanalyse et transidentités : hétérotopies, L’Évolution Psychiatrique, Volume 80, Issue 2, April–June 2015, Pages 303–316 doi:10.1016/j.evopsy.2015.01.004 Résumé Objectifs Repenser la filiation psychiatrique de nombre de théorisations analytiques de la « transsexualité », en désigner les points de butée, pour voir si et comment il est possible de penser une psychanalyse de la post-transsexualité. Chercher …
Ben Golder, Human rights without humanism. Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?, Originally on the Stanford University Press blog, 27 October 2015. Currently on The Australian Public Law site (October 2025) […] As human rights rise in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s so too does the work of thinkers …
Dawes, S. Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: a response to Downey et al. (2016) Media, Culture and Society, 38 (2), pp. 284-293. DOI: 10.1177/0163443715610922 [Editor’s note: I have posted details of Downey et al’s article below for easy consultation] Abstract Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of …
Oliver Davis, Foucault Tomorrow: Codicil for a Queer Pharmatopia mp3 of paper delivered in February 2014. Also here
Foucault : “Mes livres sont des espèces de petits pétards…“ En juin 1975, Roger-Pol Droit enregistrait de longs entretiens avec le philosophe Michel Foucault en vue d’un livre qui fut abandonné. Inédit. PROPOS RECUEILLIS PAR ROGER-POL DROIT Publié le 06/12/2015 | Le Point This article is for purchase. Dans cet extrait inédit, il parle de …
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran: The ‘Spirit Of A Spiritless World’ – OpEd (2016), Eurasia Review: A Journal of Analysis and News 13 February 2016 On the occasion of the thirty seventh anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, we are compelled to revisit the unique insights of Michel Foucault, the late French philosopher, who observed …
Robert Maggiori, Bouveresse, Opération Vérité, Libération, 12 février 2016 Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault. Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir Avant-propos de Benoît Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat, Agone, 2016 148 pp., 18 €. Une analyse serrée de la pensée de Foucault et de sa lecture de Nietzsche. Rien ne peut effacer la dette …
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