Hear Michel Foucault’s Lecture “The Culture of the Self,” Presented in English at UC Berkeley (1983), Open Culture, August 6th, 2014 Michel Foucault’s time in the United States in the last years of his life, particularly his time as a lecturer at UC Berkeley, proved to be extraordinarily productive in the development of his theoretical …
Jacobs, F., Claringbould, I., Knoppers, A. Becoming a ‘good coach’ (2014) Sport, Education and Society, . Article in Press. Abstract The purpose of this paper was to gain insight into how coaches problematized their coaching practices and the process in which they engaged to become what they perceived to be better coaches using a course …
Chloë Taylor, Birth of the Suicidal Subject: Nelly Arcan, Michel Foucault, and Voluntary Death, Culture, Theory and Critique, Published online: 23 Jul 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2014.937820 Abstract Michel Foucault argues that it is not sex but death that is the true taboo in the modern, biopolitical era. The result is that regular death has been privatised and …
Michelle Murphy, The economization of life, parts 1 and 2 (2014) Conversation recorded with Michelle Murphy in Toronto on June 21, 2014 Link to audio and further info Update October 2025: The link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine This conversation with Michelle Murphy is divided into two parts: …
Foucault’s freedom, Johanna Oksala interviewed by Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine, Friday, August 1st, 2014. Update October 2025: Link above to archived page on the Internet archive Wayback Machine Johanna Oksala is a political philosopher who broods on Foucault, thinks that it’s time people stopped thinking in terms of continental vs analytic, thinks about Foucault and …
Michelle Foucault: Full House child star by day, French philosopher by night tumblr blog created by artist Buzz Slutzky. A sample…
Courtney Szto & Sarah Gray Forgive me Father for I have Thinned: surveilling the bio-citizen through Twitter (2014) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, . Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2014.938245 Abstract The Biggest Loser (TBL) is a reality weight-loss television show that aims to address the notion of an ‘obesity epidemic’ by instructing viewers about …
Society of the Query #2 Session 4: Reflections on Search Antoinette Rouvroy (BE): Algorithmic Governmentality and the End(s) of Critique Conference Day 2 (8 November 2013) Algorithmic personalization is characterised primarily by the two following movements: a) dissipation of all forms of transcendent ‘scale’, ‘benchmark’, or hierarchy, in favour of an immanent normativity evolving in …
Engin Isin, Citizens without frontiers, Open Democracy: Free thinking for the world, 15 October 2012 Movements without frontiers are neither commercial nor protected. In fact, state, corporate and religious authorities often do not endorse or support their movements and attempt to inhibit their activities. It is in this sense that the founding aspect of these …
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