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 …
Anfinson, K. Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition (2023) American Political Science Review, 117 (3), pp. 927-939. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422001034 Abstract The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s …
Asad L. Asad, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life, Princeton University Press, 2023. Some eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presence. Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex …
Miguel Vatter, Care of the Self and the Invention of Legitimate Government. Foucault and Strauss on Platonic Political Philosophy. In Jeffrey A. Bernstein and Jade Larissa Schiff, eds. Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought : Reading Strauss Outside the Lines. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. This chapter offers an interpretation of Michel Foucault’s …
Sfara, E. From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 45, 16 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00573-8 Abstract Many historical studies tend to underline two central Kantian themes frequently emerging in Georges Canguilhem’s works: (1) a conception of activity, primarily stemming from the Critique of …
Foeken, E. (2023). Embodied, caring and disciplinary: A Foucauldian reading of ‘process time’ as constitutive of the biopolitical institution of the family. Time & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X231176434 ‘Process time’ describes the recursive/fluid, social and embodied temporality that characterises much ‘women’s work’. Though this concept has proven highly useful to feminist analyses of caring and other feminised …
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