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

François Cusset (French) Theory: An Anti-American American Invention, Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, June 8 2022 If French Theory is American, it is so in the sense of being an errant concept, caught up in a continuous process of blurring, relocation, and deconstruction. The story of my own book, French Theory, bears witness to this …

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Lee H., Lee T. The TraceTogether Matrix Has You – Surveillance, Rationalisation and Tactics of Governance in Singapore’s COVID-19 App (2022) Platform, 9.2 (Special Issue), pp. 77 – 91 Open access ABSTRACT: In the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore rolled out TraceTogether; a contact-tracing mobile app that uses proximity sensing to track the movements …

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Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball (eds), Neoliberalism and Education, Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means …

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Carol Carpenter, Power in Conservation. Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern …

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Mascaretti G.M. Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance (2023) Philosophy and Social Criticism, DOI: 10.1177/01914537221150497 ABSTRACT: This article offers a comparative exploration of the practices of resistance Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault champion against the structures of modern power their enquiries have the merit to illuminate and contest. After a preliminary examination of …

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Min Lin & Weili Zhao (2023) Untangling the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers through neoliberal, Confucian, and affective technologies: with and beyond Foucault, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2023.2174074 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers along and beyond a Foucauldian governmentality lens, untangling how the three …

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Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi, Debating Biopolitics. New Perspectives on the Government of Life. Edward Elgar, 2022 Emerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics …

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Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The manuscript dates from 1966, it was written after THE ORDER OF THINGS, published in 1966, and before…

Vito De Lucia, Beyond anthropocentrism and ecocentrism: a biopolitical reading of environmental law, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 8 No. 2, September 2017, pp. 181–202 https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2017.02.01 Abstract The ‘rise of ecosystem regimes’ is increasingly seen as the key for the resolution of the unfolding ecological crises that are the mark of the …

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Garlen, J.C., Hembruff, S.L. Children as ‘difference makers’: viral discourses of childhood innocence and activism in #Blacklivesmatter (2022) Children’s Geographies, . DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2142037 Abstract Viral images on social media during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 brought heightened attention to the debate over children’s political participation. Therefore, our inquiry sought to discover what the …

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