Foucault News

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

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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Clifton, J., Jacobs, G., Valeiras-Jurado, J., Vandendaele, A. Governmentality-in-action The pursuit of happiness and identity-work in graduate career coaching interaction (2022) Language and Dialogue, 12 (3), pp. 335-359. DOI: 10.1075/ld.00117.cli Abstract Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work provides an account of how governmentality is enacted as social …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, Gaming: A Techno-Cultural Archaeology, Blue Labyrinths, January 9, 2023 Part I: A Prototype Demonstration I would not be the first, nor the last person to take Michel Foucault’s writings on power, bio-politics, techniques of self-transformation, discipline, subjugation, etc., and apply them to the domain of digital games. It may be far from trivial …

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