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

M. Cecilia Oliveira, Leandro Siqueira, Digitalization between environmental activism and counter-activism: The case of satellite data on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Earth System Governance, Volume 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100135. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000040) Open access Abstract: This paper analyzes the uses of digital satellite data on deforestation in the Amazon region, drawing on poststructuralist studies of scientific knowledge …

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Gordana Fontana-Giusti: Foucault and the language of architects, Listen Notes, April 20, 2023. Podcast. In Season 2, Episode 28 of A is for Architecture, Gordana Fontana Giusti discusses her 2013 book, Foucault for Architects, published by Routledge, as part of the Thinkers for Architects series. Gordana is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Kent School of Architecture …

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Handbook on Governmentality. Research Handbooks in Political Thought series Edited by William Walters and Martina Tazzioli. Edward Elgar Publishing 2023 The Handbook on Governmentality discusses the development of an interdisciplinary field of research, focusing on Michel Foucault’s post-foundationalist concept of governmentality and the ways it has been used to write genealogies of modern states, the …

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Morales-Ladrón, M. On docile bodies: silence, control and surveillance as self-imposed disciplines in Anna Burns’ Milkman (2023) Irish Studies Review DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2023.2198081 Abstract Anna Burns, the first Northern-Irish woman to have been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Milkman in 2018 has been celebrated since then as a lucid and necessary voice in the …

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Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault – Archive ouverte HAL Marie-Laure Massot, “Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault“. Master. Atelier autour des archives, Centre documentaire du CAPHES, France. 2023. ⟨hal-04057849⟩ Avec près de 20 000 feuillets numérisés…

Michel Foucault : qu’est-ce que la philosophie?, Actualité: l’univers du livre, 18/04/2023 The first 26 pages of the uncorrected proofs to the book are attached to this article. Le Discours philosophique propose ainsi une nouvelle manière de faire l’histoire de la philosophie, qui la décentre du commentaire des grands philosophes. […] Les éditions du Seuil …

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Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred, The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession, University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Challenging the contemporary notion of “self-care” and the Western mania for “self-possession,” The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred …

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Alice Leal & Philip Wilson (2023) A tale of two disciplines? Philosophy in/on translation, Perspectives, 31:1, 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2023.2148984 ABSTRACT We describe the genesis of this special issue on ‘philosophy in/on translation’: a symposium led to the formation of a successful research group. The interface between philosophy and translation studies has become a fruitful research …

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Miro Griffiths. Declare Independence. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. 2023. Vol. 3(1):24-41. DOI: 10.13169/intljofdissocjus.3.1.0024 Open access Abstract This article presents an original and critical interrogation of how disabled activists establish claims and coordinate activities to progress the independent living agenda. The article achieves this by employing Beckett and Campbell’s (2015) concept of ‘oppositional …

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Bloomfield, M.J., Manchanda, N. Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain (2023) Regulation and Governance DOI: 10.1111/rego.12522 Abstract To examine how private regulatory governance reproduces a market logic that always already circumscribes possibilities for radical change, we tarry with Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality and his …

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