Foucault News

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

Giorgi Vachnadze, Biometric Technology And The Theory Of Human Capital, Non, 8 July 2023 Authentication and Verification: Defining the Problem Throughout his career, one of the central concerns for Foucault’s work was to investigate, analyze and offer a genealogical account of truth-telling as a mode of subjectivation. The notion of Biopolitics implies many different ways …

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Call For Papers – Happiness in Contemporary Continental Philosophy CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a topical issue of Open Philosophy PDF -CFP Happiness in Contemporary Continental Philosophy HAPPINESS IN CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue “Happiness in Contemporary Continental Philosophy,” edited by Ype de Boer (Radboud University, the Netherlands). DESCRIPTION …

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Call for Papers 3 (1): FILOSOFÍA, POLÍTICA Y VERDAD Coordinadores: Iván Torres Apablaza y Silvana Vignale Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences  Recepción de trabajos: 30 de noviembre de 2023 https://revistas.educaidscientific.com/index.php/lajhed/announcement PDF of Call for Papers Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences es una publicación semestral de acceso abierto, editado por …

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Xiao Han (2023) Disciplinary Power Matters: Rethinking Governmentality and Policy Enactment Studies in China, Journal of Education Policy, 38:3, 408-431, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.2014570 ABSTRACT Besides Foucault’s own focus on liberal contexts, the relatively limited application of his thoughts in illiberal countries may also result from the misunderstanding of power. The traditional juridico-discursive model interprets power as …

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Foucault in Chinese Educational Studies, Special Issue. Knowledge Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2019 Foucault In Chinese Educational Studies Michael A. Peters Aesthetic Education: toward a possible aesthetic life Xu Jinyuan Using Foucault’s theory of technologies of the self to examine the learning process in China’s math classrooms Chi Xiao Governmentality and private tutoring …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book ​ critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …

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Chen, Z., & Wang, C. Y. (2019). The Discipline of Happiness: The Foucauldian Use of the “Positive Energy” Discourse in China’s Ideological Works. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 48(2), 201–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102619899409 Abstract One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression). Recently Xi …

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Aurora Cathrin Eidem Adolfsen, Queer Case of Dr Jekyll’s Double Life. A Queer Reading of R. L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Bachelor’s thesis in English for teacher training students, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Supervisor: Wassim Rustom, May 2023 Abstract This bachelor’s thesis is a queer reading …

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