Bernal Marcos, M.J., Zittoun, T., Gillespie, A. Diaries as Technologies for Sense-making and Self-transformation in Times of Vulnerability (2023) Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science DOI: 10.1007/s12124-023-09765-0 Abstract Diaries have been generally understood as “windows” on sense-making processes when studying life ruptures. In this article, we draw on Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of self-writing as a “technology …
He, L. A sociological (Re)construction of the reflexive self: A convergence between Foucault and classical Confucian ethics (2023) Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 64 (2), pp. 279-291. DOI: 10.1111/apv.12370 Abstract The emergence of a body of work on ethics since the 1990s with a special interest in the self in the Western academia, inspired by Michel Foucault’s …
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Jiang, N.H. From Audits to Confessionals: The Influence of Accounting Technology on Medieval Penitential Pedagogy (2023) In Katharine D. Scherff, Lane J. Sobehrad (eds) Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Routledge, 2023 pp. 13-31. DOI: 10.4324/9781003295082-3 Abstract This chapter explores the productive influence of fiscal accounting culture on the …
Jubb, D. ‘It was pop that was making the bread’: Accounting and musical space at Abbey Road studios (2023) Accounting History, 28 (2), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.1177/10323732231155932 Abstract This research considers the relationship between accounting and physical space, focusing on the creation of musical recordings within the musical and ‘magical’ space of Abbey Road Studios …
Scholarly Conference: Call for Proposals Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada May 29 & 30, 2024 Deadline: January 22, 2024 The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality since Les Mots et …
Boucher, L. The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime (2023) Cultural Studies DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2023.2169731 Abstract Men’s sheds emerged in Australia with a promise to restore men to health and happiness through the provision of a gender-exclusive communal space and access to ‘traditional’ masculine activities. This article traces …
Italian Radical Philosopher Toni Negri Dies In Paris By AFP – Agence France Presse December 16, 2023 Radical left-wing Italian philosopher Toni Negri died in Paris Saturday, aged 90, his wife the philosopher Judith Revel told AFP. A former leader of Italy’s Workers’ Power movement, Negri was arrested in 1979 and convicted by a court …
The Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation has been updated. With thanks to Daniele Lorenzini for maintaining this important bibliography originally compiled by Richard Lynch in 1997.
Dispositif: A Cartography Edited by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa Description A groundbreaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought. Dispositif is one of the most prevalent yet elusive terms in contemporary thought. This comprehensive anthology brings together formative, seminal, and contemporary texts and visual applications to illuminate how central dispositifs …
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