Foucault News

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

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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Xiao Han (2023) Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China, Journal of Education Policy, 38:3, 408-431, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.2014570 ABSTRACT Besides Foucault’s own focus on liberal contexts, the relatively limited application of his thoughts in illiberal countries may also result from the misunderstanding of power. The traditional juridico-discursive model interprets power as …

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Foucault in Chinese Educational Studies, Special Issue. Knowledge Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2019 Foucault In Chinese Educational Studies Michael A. Peters Aesthetic Education: toward a possible aesthetic life Xu Jinyuan Using Foucault’s theory of technologies of the self to examine the learning process in China’s math classrooms Chi Xiao Governmentality and private tutoring …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book ​ critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …

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Chen, Z., & Wang, C. Y. (2019). The Discipline of Happiness: The Foucauldian Use of the “Positive Energy” Discourse in China’s Ideological Works. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 48(2), 201–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102619899409 Abstract One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression). Recently Xi …

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