Kim Su Rasmussen, Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism, Theory, Culture & Society September 2011 vol. 28 no. 5 34-51 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411410448 Abstract This paper argues that Foucault’s genealogy of racism deserves appreciation due to the highly original concept of racism as biopolitical government. Modern racism, according to Foucault, is not merely an irrational prejudice, a form of …
EPTC Incubator Workshop—Philosophy and/as Biopolitics The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for the Second ETPC Incubator. This event will be a collaborative workshop with presentations of work-in-progress as well as paper presentations on this year’s theme: Philosophy and/as Biopolitics. Some of the most important thinkers from the …
Nielsen, Cynthia R. (2011), Unearthing consonances in Foucault’s accourn of Greco-Roman self-writing and Christian technologies of the self, The Heythrop Journal, pp. 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00694.x Opening paragraphs Although his critics claim otherwise, Michel Foucault understood his work as consistently focused in one way or another on the genealogy of the subject and the construction of subjectivities.1 …
Diogo Sardinha, Ordre et temps dans la philosophie de Foucault, Préface d’Etienne Balibar, L’Harmattan, La philosophie en commun, ISBN : 978-2-296-56327-8 • septembre 2011 • 252 pages. Book available in paperback or ebook Pdf of further details, cover and table of contents L’oeuvre de Foucault apparaît comme une succession d’études dispersées, plus que comme un …
Kevin Hetherington, Foucault, the museum and the diagram, The Sociological Review Volume 59, Issue 3, Article first published online: 1 SEP 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02016.x Abstract Foucault’s work on the museum is partial and fragmentary but provides an interesting opportunity through which to explore issues of power, subjectivity and imagination. Following a discussion of Deleuze’s reading of …
Key thinkers – Michel Foucault. Interview with Professor Stephen Shapiro, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Update August 2025: This podcast is no longer available. Stephen Shapiro’s webpage can be found here English Literature student Alexander Freer and PPE student Danny Smith interview Professor Stephen Shapiro on Foucault’s major theories as part of a …
Jörg Spieker, Foucault and Hobbes on Politics, Security, and War, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political August 2011 vol. 36 no. 3 187-199 https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375411418596 Abstract This article engages and seeks to develop Michel Foucault’s account of the nexus between modern politics, security, and war. Focusing on his 1976 lecture series Society Must Be Defended, the article considers …
Michael Welch, Counterveillance: How Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons reversed the optics, Theoretical Criminology August 2011 vol. 15 no. 3 301-313 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610396651 Abstract The analysis herein considers the dynamics of panopticism by developing further the concept of counter-surveillance—or counterveillance—whereby prison officials rather than the prisoners become the target of unwanted attention. While …
Magritte and Foucault at Moderna Museet until 6 November Stockholm 1 September 2011 – 6 November 2011 “Moderna Museet Essä” is a new series of essays published by the Modern Museeum of Stockholm and Axl Books. The first essay was written by Lars O Ericsson : Magritte – Foucault. Om orden och tingen (Magritte-Foucault. Worlds …
Ben Golder, Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights, Social Legal Studies September 2011 vol. 20 no. 3, 2011 pp. 283-312 https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911404857 Abstract Michel Foucault is not often read as a theorist of human rights. On the one hand, there is a tendency to read his works of the mid-1970s — his celebrated …
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