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

Dispositif: A Cartography Edited by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa Description A groundbreaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought. Dispositif is one of the most prevalent yet elusive terms in contemporary thought. This comprehensive anthology brings together formative, seminal, and contemporary texts and visual applications to illuminate how central dispositifs …

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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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