Foucault News

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

Blattner, P. Das wahre Ich. Sexualität und Imperativ der Identität. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-024-00190-5 Open access Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die Verflechtung von der Frage nach der Sexualität und der Frage nach dem wahren Selbst. Durch die eigene Sexualität entdeckt und offenbart sich das Individuum vor sich selbst und anderen. Im Anschluss …

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Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology. French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science, Springer, 2024 -Offers a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of historical epistemology -The first book to address both French and Anglophone twentieth-century attempts to bring together history and philosophy of science -Makes Continental conceptual resources available to Anglophone …

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Mycoaesthetics Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon Critical Inquiry 2024 50:4, 703-724 DOI: 10.1086/730345#xref_fn37 Abstract This article analyzes the recent growth of popular interest in fungi across commerce, design, wellness, fiction, and film. Focusing on the ways that fungi are said to take the form of distributed networks, we argue that it is primarily through aesthetics …

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Steven G. Ogden, Problematising Theism: Miguel Vatter, An-Arche, and Its Implications, Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXVI, 2024, 2, pp. 279-293 ABSTRACT This essay addresses the complexity of the politics-religion nexus. I use the work of Miguel Vatter as my primary source as well as concepts from Michel Foucault’s conceptual toolbox. Specifically, the …

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Ogden, S.G. (2024). Defying Strongman Politics: On Theologians and the Cultivation of Resistant Subjectivity in a Time of Global Crisis. In: Babie, P.T., Sarre, R. (eds) Religion Matters: Volume 2 . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9777-0_10 Abstract We have to live with strongman politics for some time to come. With no obvious political solutions in sight, then, …

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Torres Apablaza, Iván (2024). Ejercicios de caligrafía filosófica: Michel Foucault y la crítica al humanismo en su lectura temprana de Nietzsche y Heidegger. El Banquete de los Dioses. Revista de Filosofía y teoría Política Contemporáneas. 14 (1), pp. 10-37 https://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/ebdld/article/view/9534 “Philosophical Calligraphy Exercises: Michel Foucault and the Critique of Humanism in his early Reading of …

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PhD course: Foucault and Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation LINK to the course site: https://phdsupport.nemtilmeld.dk/38/ Date and time Monday 9 September 2024 at 09:00 to Thursday 12 September 2024 at 16:00< Registration Deadline 10 August 2024 at 23:55 Location Room TBA, Campus TBA, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Organizer CBS PhD School, Nina Iversen, …

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de la Rosa, T., Berrocoso, E., Scorza, F.A. Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration (2024) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1007/s11013-024-09855-7 Abstract Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent increase in their prevalence. Characterized as progressive, chronic and debilitating, they often result …

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Jeremy Tambling, The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida. The Last Sentence of the Law, Bloomsbury, 2023 Description In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran …

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Guizzo, D. Ceremonial Economics: A Social-Institutional Analysis of Universities, Disciplines, and Academic Positioning (2024) Journal of Economic Issues, 58 (2), pp. 397-423. DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2024.2343246 Abstract What is the future of the university? Many have attempted to unpack what emerging technologies, political pressures, and social scrutiny can do to the status and innovative capacity of universities. …

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