Foucault News

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

Eric Schliesser, Foucault on Enlightenment, and Journalism, Digressions and Impressions (blog), 19 January 2023. […] Foucault redefines the nature of journalism from, say, the reporting of news, to this more ontological or existential question pertaining in tricky ways to identity, ‘what are we now?’ To be sure, Foucault does not legislate that journalism is not …

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Abigail A. Dumes, What Long Covid Shows Us About the Limits of Medicine, The New York Times, March 17 2022 Long Covid symptoms, such as fatigue, shortness of breath, cognitive difficulties, erratic heart rate, headache and dizziness, can be debilitating and wide-ranging. There is uncertainty about what ultimately causes long Covid and how to adequately …

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Kurtuluş, G. & İnci, M. (2023). NEOLİBERALİZMİN BORÇLU İNSANINA DAİR ELEŞTİREL BİR ÇÖZÜMLEMENİN ÇÖZÜMLEMESİ: SQUID GAME, Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 44 (2) , 303-315 . Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/muiibd/issue/74273/1225246 Abstract Neoliberal politikalardan hareketle, finansın artan rolü ve borçlu bireyin normalleştirilmesi üzerine tartışmalar devam etmektedir. Bununla birlikte, neoliberalizmin inşası üzerine yapılan eleştirel çalışmalar artık …

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Strausz, Erzsébet (2022) Writing with Foucault: openings to transformational knowledge practices in and beyond the classroom, Critical Studies on Security DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2022.2134698 ABSTRACT This article engages questions of authority and authorship in the discipline and the IR classroom, driven by a search for affirmative horizons within critical scholarship and academic practice. Prompted by a series …

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Adamiak, M. Being otherwise: On the possibility of a non-dualistic approach in feminist phenomenology (2022) Technoetic Arts, 20 (1-2), pp. 11-25. DOI: 10.1386/tear_00078_1 Abstract This article reflects on the current philosophical tendency to construct non-dualistic subjectivity models in response to the criticism of the traditional authoritarian human subject. Following thinkers such as Emmanuel Lévinas, Michel …

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Mark Cole, Radical Organisation Development, Routledge, 2020 Book Description Contemporary organisation development (OD) in practice draws on sophisticated theory and tools to advance organisational change, using a range of concepts and techniques including positive psychology, appreciation, and active engagement with the workforce. OD is considered to be humanistic and, as a result, progressive. Mark Cole’s …

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Psychiatry and the Selves We Might Become: An Interview with Sociologist Nikolas Rose, Mad in America, 19 August 2020 MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews the well-known sociologist of medicine, Nikolas Rose, about the role psychiatry plays in shaping how we manage ourselves and our world. ikolas Rose is a professor of Sociology in the Department of …

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Herman Westerink (2020) The obligation to truth and the care of the self: Michel Foucault on scientific discipline and on philosophy as spiritual self-practice, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 81:3, 246-259, DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2020.1749871 ABSTRACT It has often been argued that Foucault’s turn to antique and early Christian care of the self, spiritual self-.practices and …

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Rony K. Pratama, Genealogi Hoaks Indonesia, EA Books, 2021 English abstract and title below Bagaimana penciptaan dan perubahan makna hoaks dari momen-momen penting yang menandainya? Siapa saja aktor penting yang membentuk hoaks dalam sepuluh tahun terakhir? Bagaimana pesan berantai berisi ancaman santet membuat geger masyarakat? Masih ingat kicauan @TrioMacan2000? Apa agenda ekonomi-politik di balik ramainya …

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Heterotopia by Natasha Barrette Review by Agata Kik, The Quietus, March 17th, 2022 Acousmatic composer Natasha Barrette makes musique concrète feel like a thrilling adventure film, finds Agata Kik [Article includes music from the album] Heterotopia is an intriguing investigation into the sculpturing and spatialisation of sound, carried out by acclaimed acousmatic musician Natasha Barrett. …

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