Foucault News

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

Kurtuluş, G., & Demİrcan Yildirim, P. (2023). Türkiye’de kadin kooperatiflerine siyasi iktidarin gözünden bakmak: feminist postyapisalci bir analiz. Memleket Siyaset Yönetim, 18(40), 441-460. https://doi.org/10.56524/msydergi.1352548 English title and abstract below Öz Türkiye’de yirmi yılı aşkın süredir hem siyasi hem de sivil alanda özellikle kadının güçlendirilmesi retoriği ile ilişkili kadın kooperatiflerine olan ilginin arttığı gözlenmektedir. Kadınların ekonomik …

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Foucault Studies Number 35, December 2023 Special Issue: Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Special Issue Introduction Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times Annika Skoglund, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Fabiana Jardim, David Armstrong Governmentality, Science and the Media. Examining the “Pandemic Reality” with Foucault, Lyotard and Baudrillard Jean-Paul Sarrazin, Fabián Aguirre Securing the …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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