Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault – Freedom and Knowledge Author(s): Edited by Fons Elders and Lionel Claris Elders Special Productions BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-805600-6-2 NUR 730 You can purchase this book as a paperback or an ebook. An extract can also be found on Lionel Claris’ academia.edu site and you can find a version of Lynne Huffer’s …

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Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014) The Productive Body. Translated and introduced by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro. London: Zero Books. The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism’s transformation of the body is related to the rise of …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoOhhh4aJg I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this here, including the link to the book of the…

M. Alejandra Energici, José Antonio Román B., Claudio Ramos Z. y Sebastián Ibarra G., Solidaridad en la gubernamentalidad liberal avanzada: un análisis en piezas publicitarias, Polis, Revista Latinoamerica, 32, 2012 Further info Resúmenes El artículo presenta una reflexión sobre la manera en que en los últimos veinte años la promoción de un determinado tipo de …

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Ideland, M., Malmberg, C. Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power: critical perspectives on education for sustainable development (2014) Environmental Education Research, published online Feb 2014 Abstract This article analyses how ‘eco-certified children’ are constructed as desirable subjects in teaching materials addressing education for sustainable development. We are interested in how discourses structure this cherished practice …

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Boland, T. Critique is a thing of this world: Towards a genealogy of critique (2014) History of the Human Sciences, 27 (1), pp. 108-123. Abstract Although Foucault was clearly a critical thinker, his approach also provides for the possibility of a genealogy of critique. Such an approach problematizes critique, and I trace the emergent problematization …

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Murray, S.J. Allegories of the Bioethical: Reading J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year (2014) Journal of Medical Humanities, February 2014 Abstract This essay reads J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Diary of a Bad Year, as an occasion to problematize contemporary bioethical (and neoliberal) paradigms. Coetzee’s rhetorical strategies are analyzed to better understand the “scene of address” …

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Bowden, G. Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects (2014) History of the Human Sciences, 27 (1), pp. 88-107. Abstract This article explores some of the normative commitments which persist in the literature on behavioural interventions for disorders of inattention and hyperactivity. These programmatic texts grapple with a contradiction: on one hand, …

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