Foucault Studies, Number 34, August 2023 Open access Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Articles Sustaining Significance of Confessional Form: Taking Foucault to Attitudinal Research Krystof Dolezal Ungovernable Counter-Conduct: Ivan Illich’s Critique of Governmentality Tim Christiaens Book Reviews Mark Coeckelbergh, Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Columbia University Press, …
Ansgar Allen, Barthes, anti-intellectualism, and the academy, Ephemera. Theory & Politics in Organization, 2023 Open access Abstract In this paper the UK university system is conceptualised as an institutional space that has been transformed to become a resolute, functional haven of anti-intellectualism. This argument is qualified by adopting an understanding of intellectual work that is …
Sujin Lee, Wombs of Empire. Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, Forthcoming, October 2023 Japan’s contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country’s efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is …
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Walsh, J., Ferazzoli, M.T. The Colonised Self: The Politics of UK Asylum Practices, and the Embodiment of Colonial Power in Lived Experience (2023) Social Sciences, 12 (7) DOI: 10.3390/socsci12070382 Abstract This paper draws on empirical data generated in the ‘Everyday Bordering in the UK’ project, with a focus on the experiences of people seeking asylum …
Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth. Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, Chicago University Press, 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s project. Foucault did not question …
Scientia Sexualis and Historiography of Sexuality Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will receive proposals for articles that seek to reflect on Scientia Sexualis for the issue of June 2024. Sexual science began at the end of the 19th century with the ambitious undertaking of physicians such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfeld, who set …
Rob Horning, From work to text, and back again: ChatGPT and the (new) death of the author, Overland, 23 February 2023 When he declared the death of the author, in 1968, Roland Barthes was attacking the idea that our understanding of any particular text should be conditioned or constrained by the person who happened to …
Clegg, Stewart, and Johan Ninan. “Foucault’s governmentality and the issue of project collaboration”. In Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing, Edited by Graham Winch, Maude Brunet and Dongping Cao (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023) https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880283.00020 Abstract The concept of governmentality has proven useful to analyse how the reflexive management of people within and without …
Sinn, M.-C. Theorizing on Engaging in Identity Work from Spiritual Formation to Vocation Discernment: Narratives of a Hong Kong Chinese (Prospective) Seminarian (2023) International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 13 (2), pp. 159-187. DOI: 10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v13i02/159-187 Abstract While research efforts have been devoted largely to priestly identity in the priesthood, it is surprising that …
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