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

Dean, J. From solidarity to self-promotion? Neoliberalism and left politics in the age of the social media influencer (2023) Capital and Class DOI: 10.1177/03098168231199907 Abstract The aim of this article is to map the contested intersections of influencer culture and left/progressive politics within the current conjuncture. Furthermore, drawing on a combination of Gramscian and Foucaultian …

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Schultz, Daniel J. Review of The History of Sexuality, Volume 4: Confessions of the Flesh, by Michel Foucault. The Comparatist 47 (2023): 413-424. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2023.a911953 Extract When Volumes 2 and 3 of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality appeared in 1984, a publisher’s insert announced the imminent arrival of a fourth volume, Confessions of the Flesh. …

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Stewart Clegg and Johan Ninan, Unravelling governmentality in project ecologies (2023) Project Leadership and Society, 4, DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100099 Abstract Under the rubric of project governance, governmentality has been defined as a general mode of governing people in projects, whether these projects are organized in an authoritarian, liberal, or neo-liberal mode in their approach to authority …

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Michael, R., Donnar, G. Crosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age (2023) in Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 71-83. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26397-2_6 Abstract This chapter introduces an intriguing concept of ‘crosshatch’ fantasy: another world that is superimposed upon consensus reality. Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia …

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Giuseppe Dambrosio, Potere, Soggettività, Post-Modernità, Sensibili alle foglie, 2021 Nella prima parte di questo libro vengono ripresi e attualizzati gli studi di Michel Foucault sul potere disciplinare, a cui è connesso il concetto di dispositivo, per indagare le forme assunte da assoggettamento e soggettivazione nella post-modernità. È evidenziata, sul piano sia filosofico sia pedagogico che …

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Turnbull, M. Assembling the Crisis of COVID-19 in Australia: A Foucauldian Analysis of Prime Ministerial Press Conferences in March 2020 (2023) Genealogy, 7 (3) DOI: 10.3390/genealogy7030066 Abstract In this article, I present a Foucauldian analysis of the speeches made by the then Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Scott Morrison) in March 2020. This analysis sets …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-second annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Emerson College Boston, MA, USA May 17-19, 2024 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. Paper submissions require an abstract of no more than 750 words. All submissions should be …

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Michael Ure, Michel Foucault’s Rhetorical Practice: The 1961 Preface to History and Madness (2023) Philosophy and Rhetoric, 52 (6), pp. 142-167. Abstract This article examines Foucault as a rhetorician rather than as a historian of parrhesia and rhetoric. It explores what we can learn about his philosophy by examining it through the lens of his …

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