Foucault News

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

Anahit Behrooz, Mapping Middle-earth. Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies. Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus of maps …

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Kabalay, B. (2024). Fail-Yapı İlişkisine Yersizleştirme Üzerinden Bir Müdahale: Foucault’nun İktidar Analizi Örneği. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 22(2), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.1467977 ÖZET Bu çalışma fail ve yapı arasındaki ilişkinin ontolojik bir hiyerarşiye referans veren yer metaforuna bağlanarak açıklanmasını eleştirmektedir. Çünkü bu ontolojik düzlemde, yerde mevcudiyeti bulunan şey diğer nesneyi ikincil bir fenomen haline …

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PHILOSOPHY TODAY An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy Call for Papers Special Issue: Foucault’s Concept of Experience Special issue editors Vilde Lid Aavitsland (University of Louisville) Leonhard Riep (Goethe University Frankfurt) PDF of call for papers Experience is a key concept in Foucault’s work, yet its centrality has long been overlooked. In many of his …

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He, X. Juxtaposition of English and Japanese native-speakerism: through the concept of the international university being a heterotopia (2024) Asian Englishes DOI: 10.1080/13488678.2024.2350085 Abstract Research on the native-speakerism ideology of different languages has demonstrated the unbalanced power relation created between those who are labeled as native speaker (NS) and as non-native speaker (NNS). While the …

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Ximenez, A. What is wrong with urban regeneration practices? Towards a Foucauldian analysis of urban regeneration documents. (2024) Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, 2024 (24), . DOI: 10.4000/articulo.5650 Abstract Urban design practices are hard to analyse and critique. In this paper, we suggest that part of the difficulty can be alleviated if one problematises …

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Krylova, A. Foucault, Post-structuralism, and the Fixed “Openness of History” (2024) Modern Intellectual History DOI: 10.1017/S1479244324000088 Abstract Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians’ encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts …

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Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland David Koepsell (Editor), Matthew P. Meyer (Editor), William Irwin (Series Editor) Description Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad Max Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order …

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Loriane Lafont-Grave, The Mystical Quality of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh: An Inquiry from Within, The Journal of Religion 2024 104:2, 145-170 Abstract This article offers an investigation of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh—published in 2018, thirty-four years after the death of the author—through a literary approach. It argues that “The Laborious Baptism,” the second …

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Echoes of Foucault, forty years after The Foucault Circle NL/BE is organizing a conference about interdisciplinary uses of Foucault’s work, with a focus on themes which Foucault did not think much about himself, but we do. Among other topics, colonialism and decolonization, gender, ecology. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …

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