Foucault News

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

Abuhassan, L.B., Dweiri, M.M. A heterotopic perception of ‘wall’ in psychological thriller films: a place, a labyrinth and a panoptic power (2024) Cogent Arts and Humanities, 11 (1), art. no. 2303180, . DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2024.2303180 Abstract A wall is often viewed simply as a structure that divides and isolates different worlds, spaces, or places. However, an …

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Eric Schliesser, Bentham and Foucault on Biopolitics and Political Epistemology, digressionsimpressions’s Substack, Feb 13, 2024 Bonus Post: Foucault, the Benthamite in 1978-1979 […] Today’s post is a long read. The pay-off is that I show that the state’s essential role is the production and diffusion — as a machinery of record — of knowledge for …

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Chevallier, Philippe. Michel Foucault et le christianisme. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.47769. Des rites antiques à la confession moderne, le christianisme fut pour Foucault une interrogation constante, aiguillée par notre actualité : quel destin cette religion a-t-elle eu dans nos vies, dans la manière de nous conduire, de connaître notre désir, de chercher notre salut …

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Hagenmüller, M. Images of control and submission in old kingdom funerary iconography: The Egyptian Tomb as a ‘Disciplinary Institution’ (2023) Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium Edited by Alexandre Loktionov, Archaeopress, pp. 148-160. Abstract I argue that funerary scenes can be studied as what Michel Foucault …

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Nikidehaghani, M. Accounting and neoliberal responsibilisation: a case study on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (2023) Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, . DOI: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2023-6250 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to explore how accounting is fostering neoliberal citizenship through the participants of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). More specifically, this paper aims to understand …

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Rossi, A. Techniques of Finitude: On the Pastoral Matrix of Economic Care (2023) Theory, Culture and Society DOI: 10.1177/02632764231203567 Abstract Building and expanding on Foucault’s work, this essay interprets pastoral power as a turning point within the long-term history of the care of the self. Through an analysis of early Christian monasticism, it claims that …

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Mahadevan, J. What connects positivism and interpretivism in cross-cultural management studies: Genealogy as a method for re-ordering disciplinary knowledge (2023) International Journal of Cross Cultural Management DOI: 10.1177/14705958231223874 Abstract Cross-cultural management (CCM) studies is the discipline that investigates the interrelations between culture, management and organization, and ensuing implications. Like all disciplines, it is built upon …

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Fazilleau, K. L’Indien atemporel d’Edward S. Curtis et le mythe de la race en voie de disparition (2023) Etudes Anglaises, 76 (2), pp. 157-179. DOI: 10.3917/etan.762.0157 Abstract This article aims at highlighting the dynamic link between the photographs of Native Americans taken by Edward S. Curtis between 1898 and 1927, published in his work The …

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