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

Mooney, J. Personal narratives, public risk: using Foucault’s ‘confessional’ to examine adult retrospective disclosures of childhood abuse (2023) Health, Risk and Society, . DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2166019 Abstract Disclosure of childhood sexual abuse is a process that is often laden with boundary testing, decision-making and, at times, risk. Disclosures tend to be delayed, often into adulthood and …

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Schweyer, M. (2022). Généalogie du gouvernement de la famille: Foucault et l’histoire politique de l’autorité familiale. Archives de Philosophie, 85, 89-107. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.854.0089 Résumé À la fin de Surveiller et Punir, Foucault indique qu’il faudrait étudier les débats révolutionnaires sur le droit des parents à faire enfermer leurs enfants, pour prolonger son analyse de la discipline …

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Saffron Huang, Chat GPT and the death of the author, The New Statesman, 26 February 2023 In 1967, in an essay called “The Death of the Author”, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes argued that people should stop viewing the author’s intentions and biography as the ultimate source of meaning in a text. A text’s …

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Michael Maidan, Review of Elisabetta Basso, “Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952-1955.” . Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 43 No. 1 (2023), 7-10 : February Open access As formulated appropriately by Bernard Harcourt in his foreword —even if he is not …

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Nancy Ettlinger, Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought. Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice, Routledge, 2023 Book Description This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic …

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Ncube, L., Mare, A. “Fake News” and Multiple Regimes of “Truth” During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe (2022) African Journalism Studies DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2072925 Abstract Debates around the sociocultural phenomenon known as “fake news” have gathered storm since the 2016 US Presidential elections. Our study problematises the notion of “truth” in a politically polarised and trust-deficit …

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Määttä, S.K. Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pecheux. In Määttä, Simo K. and Hall, Marika K. Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513602 DOI: 10.1515/9781501513602-002 Abstract Since many, if not most, of the early sources of critical approaches to discourse and ideology come from France, the …

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Elyamany, N. Postcyberpunk dystopian cityscape and emotion artificial intelligence: A spatio-cognitive analysis of posthuman representation in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (2022) Convergence DOI: 10.1177/13548565221122913 Abstract Within visual culture, postcyberpunk films are best approached as places of Otherness whereby human identity and agency are downplayed and posthumans are magnified in highly technopolic societies marked with scientific …

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Ghamkhah, A., Khazaeefar, A. The Role of Translation in the Reception of Foucault in Post-revolutionary Iran(2021) inTRAlinea, 23 Open access Abstract This study focuses on how the ideas of Michel Foucault were received and interpreted in the post-revolutionary Iran during two significant political periods stretching from 1979 to 2005, covering two eight-year administrations, the Reconstruction …

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