Bernard Harcourt, On critical genealogy. Contemporary Political Theory (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00715-y Open access Abstract Today most critical theorists who deploy history use a genealogical method forged by Nietzsche and Foucault. This genealogical approach now dominates historically inflected critique. But not all genealogical writings today, nor all philosophical debates surrounding genealogy, advance the goals of critical philosophy. …
Foucault Studies Number 36: Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy on Contemporary Thinking Introduction: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Valentina Antoniol, Stefano Marino On Foucault’s Legacy: Governmentality, Critique and Subjectivation as Conceptual Tools for Understanding Neoliberalism André …
Vervoort, T. How Does Neoliberalism Form Our Lifes? A Praxeological Approach with Jaeggi and Foucault (2024) Critical Horizons DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2024.2390335 Abstract Michel Foucault’s work has immensely enriched the way critical social theorists understand power. Beyond his work on disciplinary normalisation, Foucault’s genealogy of the modern state has discussed governmental power as the conduct of conduct …
Grafton Tanner, Foreverism, Polity, 2023 Description What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose and …
Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. Duke University Press, 2023. In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman …
Fehr, Burkhard, and Panagiotis Roilos, eds. Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679740 The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis , a pioneering scholar— shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures …
Christopher O’Neill, Foucault And Information Theory: On “Message Or Noise?”, Parrhesia , 39 · 2024 · (1966)1-17 Extract “Message or Noise?” is a short but highly suggestive essay, in which Michel Foucault takes up the question of medical thought and practice through the frame of information-theory – one of the few occasions throughout his enormous …
Michel Foucault, “Message or noise?”, Translated by Christopher O’Neill, Parrhesia 39 · 2024 · 18-24 Open access Extract In order to “situate” medicine amongst other forms of knowledge (savoir), we have become accustomed to the use of linear schemas. Above the level of the body, the soul; below the level of the organism, the tissues. …
William Tilleczek, Between Authority and Care, Plato’s Crito as Defense of the Philosophical Life, Dionysius, Vol. 39 (2024) Abstract This paper addresses the question as to why Socrates stays to die in prison through a novel reading of the Crito oriented by the Foucaultian notion of care (epimeleia). It argues that the Laws do not …
William Tilleczek Receives the 2024 Leo Strauss Award for “Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism”, Political Science Now, August 9, 2024 The Leo Strauss Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy. Citation from the Award Committee: Dr. Tilleczek’s …
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