Foucault News

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

Zaeemdar, S. Postfeminist technologies of authenticity: Examining the construction of authentic feminine selves in the neoliberal workplace (2024) Organization, . DOI: 10.1177/13505084231224363 Abstract This paper examines how the neoliberal injunction to be authentic as addressed to working women operates at the level of the individual. Drawing on Foucault’s framing of self-construction, the paper conceptualizes the …

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Simon Lemoine, Responsabiliser pour dominer. Aliénation et émancipation par l’aménagement des lieux de vie, Hermann, 2024 (France) Also published by Presses de l’Université Laval (Canada) Cet ouvrage examine les nombreuses responsabilisations qui s’imposent à nous tout au long de notre vie. Sont-elles toujours légitimes ? L’individu est-il par nature un sujet responsable, ou est-il, au …

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Adam Takács, Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History. Unfolding the Present, Lexington Books, 2023 PDF flyer with discount offer Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault’s work by focusing on its methodological, procedural, and epistemological elements. Adam Takács argues that despite all its thematic and analytical diversity, Foucault’s procedure …

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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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