Foucault News

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

Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, 3rd Edition, Polity, 2023 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and …

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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller, Lving Reference Work, Palgrave, 2020 About this book Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies. Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism. Highlights the ways in …

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Moon, K., Cho, H.D. Biopolitics and a right to tourism (2023) Current Issues in Tourism DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2203852 Abstract Tourism as a right was officially stated in the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (1999) and it would be granted normative status once the Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics (2020) is legally binding. As such, the …

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Paolucci, C. Pre‐Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions” (2023) Media and Communication, 11 (2), pp. 101-108. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6628 Abstract In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre‐Truth (as opposed to post‐truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are …

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Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International Educators, Jun …

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Melissa Pawelski, Michel Foucault’s Figure of les corps dociles Following a Critique of the Cartesian Cogito, French Studies Bulletin, Volume 43, Issue 164, Winter 2022, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/frebul/ktac017 Open access If we adhere to Michel Foucault’s argument that modern societies are governed by disciplinary power, we must take a critical stance on the Cartesian cogito, which …

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Yin-An Chen, Toward a Micro-Political Theology. A Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Liberation Theologies Foreword by Jeremy Carrette, Pickwick Publications, 2022 Has liberation theology reached a dead end? Has the time come to propose another strategy of political resistance, one that considers and takes account of the complexity of power relationships in daily life? How …

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Dalgliesh, B. (2023). The idea of the university as a heterotopia: The ethics and politics of thinking in the age of informational capitalism. Thesis Eleven, 175(1), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136231169061 Abstract Drawing on struggles within academe between faculty that promote critical education and advocates of New Public Management (NPM) who endorse instrumental learning, I reimagine the university …

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“Theoretical Puppets” use puppets of Deleuze and Foucault to discuss social theory and philosophy Jennifer Sandlin, Boing Boing, May 10 2023. [Editor: See the Theoretical Puppets category on this blog for all the Foucault related episodes] If you’re a social theory and philosophy nerd who also loves puppets, have I got a YouTube channel for you—”Theoretical Puppets.” …

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