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

Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse. Exercises in Genealogical Criticism, University of Minnesota Press, 1994 As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end …

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Stephen John Kelly, Governing civil society: How literacy, education and security were brought together, PhD Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015 Abstract This study investigates the representation and deployment of the categories literacy, education and security in government policy. Each of these categories is the foci of significant inquiry and occupies distinct spaces in academic …

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Michael Scott Christofferson, May 1968’s Black Sheep, Interview with Daniel Zamora, Jacobin, 26 December 2015 André Glucksmann died last month. Why did he and so many other French intellectuals turn to the right after May 1968? Extract DZ: You underline in your book the strange episode of Michel Foucault’s review of Glucksmann’s The Master Thinkers. …

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New Issue of Foucault Studies Number 20: December 2015: Civil Society All articles open access  Table of Contents Editorial Editorial PDF Sverre Raffnsøe et al. 1-3 Special Issue on Civil Society Introductory Note: Foucault and Civil Society PDF Miikka Pyykkönen 4-7 Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions …

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Vigo de Lima, I., Guizzo, D. An Archaeology of Adam Smith’s Epistemic Context (2015) Review of Political Economy, 21 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2015.1082819 Abstract Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault’s archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault …

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Selin, J. From self-regulation to regulation – An analysis of gambling policy reform in Finland (2015) Addiction Research and Theory, 10 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2015.1102894 Abstract Responsible gambling is a form of gambling industry self-regulation, covering the multiple ways of gambling operator’s promises to prevent and reduce gambling addiction. In Finland, where the …

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Bondy, J.M. Negotiating domination and resistance: English language learners and Foucault’s Care of the Self in the context of English-only education (2015) Race Ethnicity and Education, 21 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2015.1095171 Abstract This article explores the basis for resistance to the normalizing technologies associated with English-only legislation and resulting educational practices. The dominance …

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Huijer, M. A Critical Use of Foucault’s Art of Living (2015) Foundations of Science, 5 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9441-z Abstract Foucault’s vocabulary of arts of existence might be helpful to problematize the entwinement of humans and technology and to search for new types of hybrid selves. However, to be a serious new ethical …

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