Vichnar, D. ‘Territories Of Risk’ within ‘Tropological Space’: From Zero to 2666, and back (2015) Fear and Fantasy in a Global World, 81, pp. 55-73. DOI: 10.1163/9789004306042_005 Abstract The essay examines the subversive treatment of discourses of fear and anxiety on both local and global scales to which they are subjected within what Michel Foucault …
Andreas Folkers, Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique, Theory, Culture & Society, January 2016 vol. 33 no. 1 3-28 doi: 10.1177/0263276414558885 Abstract This paper draws attention to Foucault’s genealogy of critique. In a series of inquiries, Foucault traced the origins and trajectories of critical practices from the ancient tradition of parrhesia …
Cristina Chimisso, Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem’s concept of scientific ideology (2015) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54, pp. 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.016 Abstract In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of ‘scientific ideology’. This concept had not played any role in his previous work, so why introduce it at all? …
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 …
Dorrestijn, S. The Uses of Reason in Times of Technical Mediation (2015) Foundations of Science, 5 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9443-x Abstract The art of living idiom suits well a practice-oriented approach in ethics of technology. But what remains or becomes of the functioning and use of reason in ethics? In reaction to the …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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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