Foucault News

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

Damien Boquet, Blaise Dufal, Pauline Labey (éd.), Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2013 Publisher’s page Further info on Les émotions au Moyen Âge site Cette réflexion de Jacques Léonard doit être prise au sérieux. Cinquante ans après la parution de l’Histoire de la folie et alors que s’achève …

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Les néolibéralismes de Michel Foucault, Raisons politiques, N° 52, 2013/4, 172 pages. Special Issue https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2013-4 Présentation En 1979, Michel Foucault prononce un cours au Collège de France intitulé “Naissance de la biopolitique”. Cet ensemble de leçons propose un examen du néolibéralisme allemand (Ordolibéralisme) et américain (École de Chicago). Foucault, dans ce cadre, propose des constructions …

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Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel & Arianna Sforzini (eds.) Michel Foucault : éthique et vérité (1980-1984), Paris, Vrin, coll. « Problèmes & Controverses », 2013 Les recherches menées par Foucault au cours des années quatre-vingt demeurent, à beaucoup d’égards, indécidables. Doit-on parler, à leur propos, d’un retour aux questions classiques du sujet, de la morale, de …

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Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes, Family makeover: coaching, confession and parental responsibilisation (2013) Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 22(2), 169–188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.812136 Abstract Today, there is a widespread idea that parents need to learn how to carry out their roles as parents. Practices of parental learning operate throughout society. This article deals with one particular practice of …

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Natasha Saltes, ‘Abnormal’ Bodies on the Borders of Inclusion: Biopolitics and the Paradox of Disability Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 11, No 1/2 (2013) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v11i1/2.4460 Abstract When conducted according to the biomedical definition of disability, ‘disability surveillance’ involves monitoring bodies against normative ontological standards, classifying ‘abnormality’ and problematizing ‘abnormal bodies’ as risky. While disability surveillance …

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Richard Herbert, Madness and Superheroes. A Foucaultian analysis of the madness of the gritty, realistic superhero movie, Overthinking It site, September 3rd, 2013. ‘We must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled’. –Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization In 1938, Americans who tuned into Mercury …

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Katie R. Place and Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, Hegemonic discourse and self-discipline: Exploring Foucault’s concept of bio-power among public relations professionals, Public Relations Inquiry September 2013 vol. 2 no. 3, 305-325 https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X13494965 Abstract This qualitative study of 20 public relations practitioners examines power in public relations through the lens of bio-power – the control and management of …

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 The special edition, Privacy and Dataveillance Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, …

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André Schiffrin, Publishing Force and a Founder of New Press, Is Dead at 78 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The New York Times Books, December 1, 2013 André Schiffrin, a publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to …

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