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

Chen, Q. Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: “Morning Routine” Vlogging and Everyday Life (2021) 8th European Conference on Social Media, ECSM 2021, pp. 50-57. DOI: 10.34190/ESM.21.016 Abstract Neoliberalism, originally concerned within political field, has obtained a wide range of connotations in social sciences studies. The heavy emphasis on free and private markets has led to a shifted …

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WORLD CONGRESS Foucault: 40 years after Second call for proposals Call for proposals PDF 1. Introduction Michel Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984 at the age of 57. Forty years after his death, his work has continued to attract scholars and the general public. The number of books, as well as the doctoral …

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Richard Shusterman, Philosophy and the Art of Writing, Routledge, 2022 Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic …

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Holt, R., Wiedner, R. Technology, Maturity, and Craft: Making Vinyl Records in the Digital Age (2023) Business Ethics Quarterly, 33 (3), pp. 532-564. DOI: 10.1017/beq.2022.26 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s reading of Immanuel Kant’s essay What is Enlightenment?, and specifically his definition of ascesis, we associate maturity with a capacity for, and interest in, forming …

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Baker, E.-R. The Third Reich of Dreams: Resisting fascism through the oneiric unconscious (2023) In Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka (eds) Dreams and Atrocity: The Oneiric in Representations of Trauma, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp. 120-138. DOI: 10.7765/9781526158086.00015 Abstract Between 1933 and 1939, Berlin-based Jewish journalist Charlotte Beradt undertook a clandestine project to collect the …

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Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A. Is employee technological “ill-being” missing from corporate responsibility? The Foucauldian ethics of ubiquitous IT uses in organizations (2022) In Kirsten Martin, Katie Shilton, Jeffery Smith (eds.)Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology, Springer, 2022, pp. 33-55. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04202-y Abstract The ethical issues introduced by excessive uses of ubiquitous information technology (IT) at work …

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Thomas Heberer, Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China. The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics, Routledge, 2023 This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government’s road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. It contends that the Chinese state sees …

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Autour du Discours philosophique de Michel Foucault Journées d’étude internationale 4 et 5 décembre 2023 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et Université Paris 8 Journées coorganisés par l’Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS, UMR 8103) à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, par le Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de …

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