Foucault News

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

Lemm, Vanessa, and Miguel Vatter. “Chapter 4: Michel Foucault’s perspective on biopolitics”. In Handbook of Biology and Politics, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) accessed Jul 26, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476275.00012 Abstract Foucault’s discussion of biopolitics, a term that he began using in the mid-1970s, is closely related to his new theories of power, which have since …

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Jeffrey Whyte, The Birth of Psychological War. Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War. Oxford University Press, 2023 Open access Description The Birth of Psychological War explores the history, politics, and geography of United States psychological warfare in the 20th century against the backdrop of the contemporary ‘post-truth era’. From its …

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Gordon Hull, Signal or Noise? Foucault and Communication Theory (Part 1), New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 13 July 2023 Last time, I offered a quick synopsis of Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s excellent new book Code. Here, I’d like to track one specific Foucault reference in it. Geoghegan takes Lévi-Strauss’s Savage Mind as a central text …

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Sam Binkley, Against White Interiority. A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 About this book This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, The Algorithmic Unconscious: Psychoanalyzing Artificial Intelligence, Non, 15 July 2023 I recently came across an article that caught my attention. Written just last year. It draws a parallel between AI and psychoanalysis. Which seemed until now two completely divergent fields. It argues that we can psychoanalyze an AI. But how would that make …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, Biometric Technology And The Theory Of Human Capital, Non, 8 July 2023 Authentication and Verification: Defining the Problem Throughout his career, one of the central concerns for Foucault’s work was to investigate, analyze and offer a genealogical account of truth-telling as a mode of subjectivation. The notion of Biopolitics implies many different ways …

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Call For Papers – Happiness in Contemporary Continental Philosophy CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a topical issue of Open Philosophy PDF -CFP Happiness in Contemporary Continental Philosophy HAPPINESS IN CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue “Happiness in Contemporary Continental Philosophy,” edited by Ype de Boer (Radboud University, the Netherlands). DESCRIPTION …

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Call for Papers 3 (1): FILOSOFÍA, POLÍTICA Y VERDAD Coordinadores: Iván Torres Apablaza y Silvana Vignale Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences  Recepción de trabajos: 30 de noviembre de 2023 https://revistas.educaidscientific.com/index.php/lajhed/announcement PDF of Call for Papers Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences es una publicación semestral de acceso abierto, editado por …

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