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

Cheung, M., Chen, Z.T. Power, Freedom, and Privacy on a Discipline-and-Control Facebook, and the Implications for Internet Governance (2022) IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2022.3191103 Abstract Background: The proliferation and penetration of social media into professional and everyday lives have reshaped the way in which people deal with their personal information and …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
All of Foucault’s lecture courses at the Collège de France have been published and translated into English. Thirteen courses were delivered over a fourteen-year period from 1970-84 – Foucault took 1976-77 as a sabbatical year. Much less is known about his seminars. Until 1981, Foucault ran a seminar class in…

Rehberg, Andrea and Woodward, Ashley. Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688436 About this book The question of Nietzsche’s use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The contributors of this book re-situate debates around the notion of difference, in relation to historical and scholarly concerns, but with …

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David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022 Hardback and e-book only at the moment, but paperback sometime in the future. Subscribers to David’s substack The Fragment can access a 50% discount code. We are living in algorithmic…

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Melissa Pawelski, “Between ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’ – Translating Michel Foucault’s concept of the body after Friedrich Nietzsche“, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 2022 (open access) This article analyses the German words ‘Leib’ and ‘Körper’ that can both be translated as ‘the body’ in English and as ‘le corps’…

Goodley, C., Perryman, J. Beyond the ‘terrors of performativity’: dichotomies, identities and escaping the panopticon (2022) London Review of Education, 20 (1), art. no. 29 DOI: 10.14324/LRE.20.1.29 Abstract This article examines the influence of Stephen Ball’s work through the eyes of two former teachers turned academics who met through a mutual interest in his paper, …

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Perry Meisel, Criticism After Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, Routledge, 2022 Book Description The argument of this book is a simple one: that criticism after theory is a single movement of thought defined by synthesis and continuity rather than by conflict and change. The most influential figures in criticism since Saussure—Bakhtin, Derrida, and Foucault—are …

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Cabrera, J.C.M. This is not a pipe Iconicity in Magritte’s language paintings (2022) Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18, pp. 193-211. DOI: 10.1075/ill.18.10cab Abstract A significant part of René Magritte’s pictorial work is devoted to the challenging relationships between images and written words. In this paper, I will look into two series of Magritte’s language …

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Judy, R.S. Vorticist Confucianism: Ezra Pound’s translation practice in Confucius as modernist self-fashioning (2022) Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 9 (2), pp. 134-150. DOI: 10.1080/23306343.2022.2123189 Abstract This article argues that Ezra Pound’s Confucius, which brings together his translations of three classics of Confucian philosophy (The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and the …

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Nietzsche, Foucault et la généalogie » (II) sous la direction d’Éric ALLIEZ, Michèle COHEN-HALIMI, Orazio IRRERA Mardi 15h-18h | Département de philosophie | Université Paris 8 | Bâtiment A, Salle A028 Séminaire organisé dans le cadre des activités pédagogiques et de recherche du Département de Philosophie de l’Université de Paris 8, du LLCP (EA, 4008), …

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