Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D. The construction and legitimation of workplace bullying in the public sector: Insight into power dynamics and organisational failures in health and social care (2014) Nursing Inquiry. Article in Press. Abstract Health-care and public sector institutions are high-risk settings for workplace bullying. Despite growing acknowledgement of the scale and consequence of this …
Eric C. Smith, Foucault’s Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs: Constructing Spaces and Symbols in Ancient Rome. Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014 Further info Ringing the city like pearls on a necklace and plunging beneath the earth into darkness, the Christian catacombs of Rome have inspired and captivated people for centuries. This book takes a new approach to …
Chaput, C., Hanan, J.S. Economic Rhetoric as Taxis: Neoliberal governmentality and the dispositif of freakonomics (2014) Journal of Cultural Economy. Article in Press. Abstract This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning …
Robert Nichols, The World of Freedom. Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology, Stanford University Press, September 2014 Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy …
Mark D. Jordan, Convulsing Bodies. Religion and Resistance in Foucault, Stanford University Press, October 2014 Further info By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault’s thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher’s work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as …
Originally posted on requiem for certainty:
Out in the latest issue of Foucault Studies (in the review essay section)–a symposium on my ‘Genealogy as Critique.’ Honored am I that Amy Allen, Eduardo Mendieta, & Kevin Olson have taken the time to develop responses both careful and critical in orientation. A hope is that this exchange…
The cover image was produced by Astra Howard, an Action Researcher/Performer currently living in Sydney Australia. Spanning more than a decade, her work has sought to elicit and document marginalised, or overlooked, experiences and discourses of the city. The specific image I have chosen is part of a series entitled ‘Kings Cross the Whisper.’ This …
David Webb – From Mathematics to Ethics in the Work of Michel Foucault Recording available on the Backdoor Broadcasting Company site Event Date: 2 October 2014 Room JG5002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University presents: Professor David …
There are a couple of Foucault examples here in this post comparing photos of celebrities and philosophers on the Daily Nous – a kind of separated at birth idea. Patrick Stewart is missing however. (See David Gauntlett’s site theory.org)
Armstrong, P. The discourse of Michel Foucault: A sociological encounter (2014) Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Article in Press. Abstract Michel Foucault is a major source for the idea in critical accounting and organizational studies that identities (selves, subjectivities) are discursively constituted. This return to the text is intended as a clarification of what Foucault actually …
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