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

Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Marrying the Sources and Mechanisms of Power? Understanding the Quarantine Hotel through Michel Foucault and Michael Mann.” Journal of Political Power, (2024), 1–20. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2024.2337617 ABSTRACT Using the Norwegian quarantine hotel as a case, I analyse the narratives of 46 ‘guests’, so to explore this biopolitical device, which for biopolitical objectives enables …

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Joinau, B. Cultural Governance and New Forms of Governmentality Focus on the South Korean Case (2023) Journal of Arts Management Law and Society DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2023.2280646 Abstract The paper discusses the reasons behind the dominance of governance in contemporary societies. The techniques of government cannot be understood apart from a critical genealogy of governmentality. This article …

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Yuetong, Z., Jianxing, B. The Transgressive Individual in Foucault’s Rights-Punishment Theory – A Record of Self-Resistant Subjectivity in China (2023) Deviant Behavior DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2291048 Abstract Foucault’s philosophical theories and sociological boundaries are not mutually exclusive, and his idea of “micro-power” breaks through the traditional sociological perspective of power studies to reveal a set of hidden …

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Lovell, J. The Panaural People’s Republic: Loudness, Loss of Self, and Sonic Social Control in Mao’s China (2023) Annali di Ca Foscari Serie Orientale, 59, pp. 43-70. DOI: 10.30687/ANNOR/2385-3042/2023/02/002 Abstract Perspectives on the establishment of social control have long been shaped by theories concerning visibility and observation, such as Foucault’s concept of the Panopticon. In …

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Federico Soldani, Due commenti sulla ‘psicolingua’ Psypolitics, 8 marzo 2024 “Qui si tocca un discorso sulla cosiddetta “psichiatrizzazione del linguaggio politico”, aperto da Federico Soldani, che merita ben altri approfondimenti”. Dalla prima nota al primo capitolo del libro del giurista Ugo Mattei “Il diritto di essere contro. Dissenso e resistenza nella società del controllo” (Arnoldo …

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Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series Editor: Peggy Karpouzou Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory offers a comprehensive reference resource for scholars and students working in the areas of cultural and literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy, political and social theory. Critical thought about literature, society, ethics, …

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Call for Abstracts Handbook Title: Foucault and Education: Exploring Perspectives and Practices Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PDF of call for abstracts We are delighted to announce a call for abstracts for contributions to an upcoming volume titled “Foucault and Education: Exploring Perspectives and Practices,” to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This handbook aims to delve into …

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Coppola, A. « Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique (2023) Modern and Contemporary France, DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2023.2269396 Abstract Leos Carax’s film ‘Annette’, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, left no one indifferent: something important was being said about cinema and, in particular, about French cinema. The thread running through our analysis of …

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A Conversation on Late Fascism Alberto Toscano and Evan Calder Williams , e-flux, March 15, 2024 This is an edited version of the live event that took place on December 12, 2023 at e-flux in Brooklyn. Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis is published by Verso. […] AT: I remembered …

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