Foucault News

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

Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization – podcast (February 2024) The date is not listed on the site Interview with Toby Miller as part of his Cultural Studies podcast interviews Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization You can read …

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Boland, T., Moore-Ponce, J. Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses (2023) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310231179150 Abstract Confessional critiques proliferate in contemporary culture, remodelling critical politics as self-purification. Within Foucault’s work, critique is associated with resistance to power and subjectification, whereas confession appears a technique of disciplinary and pastoral power. …

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Gerardo Ienna & Matteo Vagelli, Bourdieu e Foucault: un confronto critico a proposito dei fondamenti della spazializzazione del potere, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, V. 2 N. 1, 27 June 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.57611/qts.v2i1.237 Open access Abstract Our aim in this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault – two …

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Servalli, S., Gitto, A., Gandelli, F. Florence flood and the rescue of the Florence state archives: The role of accounting and accountability (2023) Accounting History DOI: 10.1177/10323732231175711 Abstract This archival research aims to explore the role of accounting for natural disasters. It is focused on the 1966 Florence flood. Considering the role of Florence in …

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Editor: These passages are from Foucault’s original manuscript for “What is critique?” but weren’t included in his presentation to the Société française de Philosophie – the version that was published in 1978 in French and later in two separate English translations in 1996 and 1997. These passages appear in the new edition and translation of …

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Lorenzini, D., Tiisala, T. The architectonic of Foucault’s critique (2023) European Journal of Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12877 Abstract This paper presents a new interpretation of Michel Foucault’s critical project. It is well known that Foucault’s genealogical critique does not focus on issues of justification, but instead tackles “aspectival captivity,” that is, apparently inevitable limits of thought …

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Yang, X., Hu, N. #girls help girls#: feminist discussions and affective heterotopia in patriarchal China (2023) Feminist Media Studies DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2023.2229967 Abstract In June 2021, a girl named Du Meizhu revealed on Weibo (Chinese Twitter) of having been emotionally and sexually abused by the top-tier idol Kris Wu. The incident gained publicity over the month …

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Daniel Chao y Marilina Del Valle (compiladores), El gobierno como problema (II), TeseoPress, 2023 Intersecciones entre gubernamentalidad, pensamiento y problematización Open access Sinopsis Resultado de la labor conjunta, que lleva casi una década, en torno a la obra de Michel Foucault y sus derivas, este libro reúne las propuestas de los miembros del Grupo de …

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