Foucault News

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

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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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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