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

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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Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte – Volume 115, Issue 1, 2023 Introduction in English The focus of this special issue is the 2018 posthumous publication of Michel Foucault’s book manuscript Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality, Volume 4 (Dutch transl. Jeanne Holierhoek, 2020). This study by Foucault examines pastoral care, ethics and sexual desire …

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Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, Édition établie, sous la responsabilité de François Ewald, par Orazio Irrera et Daniele Lorenzini – Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, 2023 Qu’est-ce que la philosophie et quel est son rôle aujourd’hui ? Entre juillet et octobre 1966, quelques mois après la parution des Mots et les Choses, Michel Foucault, dans un manuscrit très soigneusement …

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Jager, F., Perron, A. How identity is produced and experienced in the context of mandated community-based mental health care: An application of the theories of Grosz and Foucault (2023) Nursing Inquiry DOI: 10.1111/nin.12552 Abstract Despite changes to research and practice, that, to some degree, acknowledge that people are shaped by their contexts, the treatment of …

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Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
1) INTRODUCTION I am providing a translation of the incipit as reproduced at the end of a pre-publication review of Michel Foucault’s forthcoming book PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. The review was published online by Philosophy Magazine and discusses the ideas expressed therein chiefly in structuralist-demarcationist terms, given that the book focuses on…

Nyman, S. The Birth of AI-driven Nudges (2023) Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2023-January, pp. 5252- 5261. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/103276 Abstract AI methods allow for a multitude of new forms of managerial control. One is algorithmic nudging, in which organizations use AI methods to control workers through targeted recommendations. Drawing upon Michel …

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