Foucault News

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

Kutay, A. From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation (2023) Critical Sociology DOI: 10.1177/08969205231180263 Abstract In this paper, I examine the neoliberal transformation of civil society through Mitchel Foucault’s insights concerning knowledge, power, and governmentality. The objective of this paper is to trace the evolving understandings of civil …

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Nyman, S., Bødker, M., Blegind Jensen, T. Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens (2023) Journal of Information Technology, DOI: 10.1177/02683962231181602 Abstract Digital trace data can be used to capture organizational practices in granular detail and enable the automation of a wide range of managerial …

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Franziska Humphreys, « L’histoire des idées au prisme de ses traductions. L’exemple de la Medientheorie (Heidegger/Foucault/Kittler) », Revue des sciences humaines 350 | 2023, 93-104. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rsh/2224 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rsh.2224 Introduction Les pratiques des sciences humaines s’inscrivent aujourd’hui dans des espaces transnationaux et ne se laissent plus limiter à un seul domaine linguistique. …

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Armstrong, L. (2023). Understanding reform discourses in complex times of change: Positions and practices of early childhood professionals from Victorian kindergarten settings. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391231212686 Abstract Australian early childhood education and care [ECEC] has faced a series of change and reform since 2009, including the introduction and later revisions of key curriculum …

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Di Cimbrini, T., Musella, A. M., & Corsi, C. (2023). Accounting for and of the epidemic in Bologna in 1855: The medicus-politicus in the Papal States. Accounting History, https://doi.org/10.1177/10323732231205646 Abstract This study investigates the confluence between accounting and natural disasters by examining the case of the cholera epidemic that occurred in Bologna in 1855, a …

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Now published and on the shelves! Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self. Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 ISBN-13: 9780226383446, Publication date: 2 January 2024, 208pp, Hardcover (First Edition): $35.00. Also published in multiple other formats. …

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Theoretical Puppets: K is for Knowledge, 20 November 2023 In this video, Foucault addresses a distinction crucial for his understanding of “knowledge,” namely the difference between “knowledge” in general (savoir) and “scientific knowledge” (connaissance). Knowledge tends to be something like a system of belief, even a kind of ideology. At the same time, it is …

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Navazhylava, K., Peticca Harris, A., Elias, S.R.S.T.A. YouTube’s Yoga with Adriene as a somametamnemata: Exploring experiences of self-care and wellness in times of crisis (2023) Organization, 30 (3), pp. 573-596. DOI: 10.1177/13505084221145543 Abstract Drawing on the Foucauldian technologies of the self, this study explores how individuals re-envision practices of wellbeing outside of traditional organizational contexts …

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Chicolino, Martín, Las violencias masculinas en la psico-sexo política de Michel Foucault. Brujas, posesas, locas, intersexuales y prostitutas, Nuevo Pensamiento 13 (22). https://p3.usal.edu.ar/index.php/nuevopensamiento/article/view/6829 Open access Resumen En torno a la teoría del poder foucaultiana sobrevuela una recriminación, aún vigente: Foucault habría problematizado la sexualidad desde la perspectiva de un sujeto indiferenciado y de género neutro. …

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