Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this …
Naz, Z. ‘Tick boxes are just tick boxes’: Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a complexity lens (2024) Policy Futures in Education, . DOI: 10.1177/14782103241240542 Abstract This article seeks to provide a new paradigm for questioning how quality and excellence in teaching practices are understood and evaluated. By combining ideas …
Isegoría Núm. 70 (2024) Ejemplaridad y moralidad. Desafección política y nuevos vínculos sociales Michel Foucault y la religión DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2024.i70 Publicado: 2024-06-30 Michel Foucault y la religión Presentación. Pensar la religión con Michel Foucault Martín Bernales Odino, Agustín Colombo [es] Arqueología y experiencia en la Historia de la sexualidad de Michel Foucault Juan Vicente Cortés …
Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence. Freedom, Nature and Agency, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics. In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of …
Bloch, S., Olivares-Pelayo, E.A. Prison geographies: Nine disciplinary approaches (2024) Geography Compass, 18 (3) DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12742 Abstract Motivated by a critical concern for state-sanctioned coercion, control, and containment across “free society,” geographers have extended Foucault’s concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces and processes. In this paper, however, we aim to re-center …
Call for Abstracts: Michel Foucault and Phenomenology The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis PDF of call for abstracts Keynote Speakers: Philippe Sabot, Elisabetta Basso, Christophe Bouton How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition of phenomenology? Studies addressing this question have been overshadowed by scholarship that considers …
Mavelli, L., Cerella, A. Neoliberalism Against Society? Spontaneous Order and Governance of Desire in Digital Societies (2024) Critical Sociology DOI: 10.1177/08969205241287067 Open access Abstract Critical scholarship often argues that neoliberalism has caused the ‘crisis’ or ‘destruction’ of society. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power as ‘productive’ and focusing on digital societies, we argue that neoliberalism …
Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies. Another Way of Cutting Reality, Oxford University Press, 2024 The aims of this book: 1. To shed new light on a neglected theme in one of the most influential contemporary thinkers by exploring Foucault’s thinking on technology. Foucault’s Technologies argues that Foucault’s thinking, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, is fundamentally …
Simon, J.‘After Neoliberalism’ and on the ‘Dark Side’? Governmentality and Counter-Conduct in Times of Growing Autocratisation (2024) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2401552 Open access Abstract The political world today in many ways seems vastly different from the context in which the concepts of governmentality and counter-conduct were initially elaborated by Foucault in the late 1970s. Especially …
