Foucault News

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

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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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Echoes of Foucault, forty years after The Foucault Circle NL/BE is organizing a conference about interdisciplinary uses of Foucault’s work, with a focus on themes which Foucault did not think much about himself, but we do: decolonization, gender, climate change, etc. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …

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Jardim, Fabiana Augusta Alves, López-Ruiz, Osvaldo, & Méndez, Pablo. (2024). Governamentalidades latino-americanas: tramas entre colonialidade e neoliberalismo. . Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Educação. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/9786587047669 Open access Includes interview with Colin Gordon Governamentalidade e além: entrevista com Colin Gordon Colin Gordon, William Walters, Martina Tazzioli Sinopse A presente coletânea inaugura a Coleção Desbordar …

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Emeritus Professor Stephen J Ball will be giving a presentation as part of the Foucault 40 Years After World Congress. Registration link Webinar details: Tuesday 4th June 20:00-21:30 (AEST), 11:00-12:30 (UTC) Why do we write? Or would Foucault thrive in the contemporary university? I want to say something about Foucault’s conception of the role and …

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Leonard D’Cruz, Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method, Philosophy & Social Criticism, March 16, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241235571 Abstract: This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thus collapsing into …

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Gordon Hull, LLM, Inc. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog, 27 February 2024 In previous posts (one, two, three), I’ve been exploring the issue of what I’m calling the implicit normativity in language models, especially those that have been trained with RLHF (reinforcement learning with human feedback). In the most recent one, I argued …

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