Isacco Turina, Vatican biopolitics (2013) Social Compass, 60 (1), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612471776 Abstract The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on …
Jean-Philippe Cazier, Deleuze, Foucault et la littérature On the Mediapart site 06 mars 2013. Lire une œuvre ne consiste pas à lui appliquer une grille théorique, à la placer dans des cadres conceptuels a priori, à expliquer ce que l’auteur a voulu dire mais sans le dire, à extraire de l’œuvre une signification enfin claire …
Luciano Nuzzo, Foucault and the Enigma of the Monster (2013) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (1), pp. 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9275-8 Abstract In this paper Foucault’s thought on monstrosity is explored. Monsters appear whenever and wherever knowledge/power assemblages emerge. That which eludes the latter, and which threatens to subvert them, is the monstrous. Foucault …
Theresa Sauter, (2013), ‘What’s on your mind?’ Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation, New Media and Society, 16(5), 823-839. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813495160 Abstract In the context of modern western psychologised, techno-social hybrid realities, where individuals are incited constantly to work on themselves and perform their self-development in public, the use of online social networking sites …
The Unsaveables: Sovereignty and Biopolitics in the 18th Brumaire Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) Date: Tuesday 6 August Time: 1 p.m. Venue: Morven Brown 310, University of NSW ) I approach the 18th Brumaire from a double trajectory. First, I examine its relation to how the exception was thought in the work of Carl Schmitt and …
Ansgar Allen, The Examined Life. On the Formation of Souls and Schooling, American Educational Research Journal, April 2013 vol. 50 no. 2 216-250 https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831212466934 Abstract The spread of examination throughout educational institutions is often viewed as an overly constraining influence, one that distorts pedagogic relationships and prevents more genuine educational activities from taking place. This …
Daan Wesselman, The high line, “the balloon,” and heterotopia (2013) Space and Culture, 16 (1), pp. 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331212451669 Abstract The High Line, a new park on an old elevated railway on Manhattan, is an otherworldly space that invites an understanding in terms of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. However, this often-used term requires critical reflection, particularly …
13 Things You Didn’t Know About Deleuze and Guattari – Part III, by Eugene Wolters, 2 July 2013 Some interesting anecdotes #11 Foucault saw Deleuze as a rival Some may find it surprising that the author of “Anti-Oedipus’” glowing introduction kind of hated the book. While Michel Foucault put on airs of amicability towards Deleuze, …
Free 1 Day Conference Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine.] Conveners: Ansgar Allen & Wilfred Carr; Keynotes: Erica Burman & Stephen Ball Hosted, sponsored and funded by the international journal Pedagogy, Culture …
Meinrad Calleja, (2012) The Battle Roar of Silence: Foucault and the Carceral System, Malta: FARAXA Publishing House Description The Battle Roar of Silence: Foucault and the Carceral System explores the philosophical rationales sustaining morality, law, punishment and the carceral system as part of the discourse of globalisation. This text attempts to desacralize the foundations of …
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