Foucault News

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

Golob, M.I., Giles, A.R. Multiculturalism, neoliberalism and immigrant minorities’ involvement in the formation and operation of leisure-oriented ventures (2015) Leisure Studies, 34 (1), pp. 98-113. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.962589 Abstract This study draws on Foucault’s concept of the ‘entrepreneur self’ to broaden understandings of the links and intersections between the normative prescriptions of multicultural citizenship in Canada …

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Hardy, C., Thomas, R. Discourse in a Material World (2015) Journal of Management Studies. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1111/joms.12113 Abstract We challenge recent assertions that discourse studies cannot de facto address materiality. We demonstrate how a Foucauldian theorization of discourse provides a way to analyse the co-constitutive nature of discursive and material processes, as well …

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Programme Journées d’études / Workshop Epistémologie Historique: commencements et enjeux actuels Historical Epistemology: beginnings and current issues Paris, 21-22-23 mai 2015 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Ecole Doctorale de Philosophie Further info Télécharger le programme et les résumés des interventions Jeudi 21 mai     Salle D634 (Galerie Dumas, escalier L), Sorbonne (1, Rue Victor Cousin, 75005) …

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Maddalena, K., Packer, J. The Digital Body: Telegraphy as Discourse Network (2015) Theory, Culture and Society, 32 (1), pp. 93-117. DOI: 10.1177/0263276413520620 Abstract This article considers the use of flag telegraphy by the US Signal Corps during the Civil War as it functioned as a proto-technical medium that preceded wire telegraphy as a military communications …

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Luchies, T. Towards an Insurrectionary Power/Knowledge: Movement-Relevance, Anti-Oppression, Prefiguration (2015) Social Movement Studies, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2014.998643 Abstract Despite ongoing efforts to articulate radical methods and theoretical frameworks for social movement research, the field remains embedded in exploitative, oppressive, and hierarchical modes of knowledge production. Following Foucault, I argue that this is …

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Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights. Stanford University Press, forthcoming in October This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early …

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The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought​ and The Hispanic Institute for Latin American & Iberian Cultures are proud to invite you to the release of the last volume of Michel Foucault’s series of seminars at the Collège de France: Foucault and May 68: Penal Theories and Institutions (Collège de France Lectures, 1971-1972) (Hautes Études, …

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New issue of materiali foucaultiani volume III, number 5-6 (January-December 2014) TABLE OF CONTENTS Il lavoro della sperimentazione  (pp. 4-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli La parrhesia e l’attualità politica della critica Introduzione  (pp. 9-13)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Nota di lettura  (pp. 15-20)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio …

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