Emanuele IULA, “La crisi della parresia. Il problema delle eredità difficili in una prospettiva foucaultiana”, Ho theológos, 2022 (1), pp. 73-92). Abstract in English The article aims to offer a deconstruction of the foucauldian notion of parresia. The problem of sexual abuse in the Church and the ecological crisis create an attitude of mistrust vis-à-vis …
Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias, Humanities (2022) Kohlke, Marie-Luise, Elizabeth Ho, and Akira Suwa. 2022. “Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias” Humanities 11, no. 1: 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010008 Wadoux, Charlotte. 2022. ““The World Had Forgotten about Us”: Heterotopian Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip” Humanities 11, no. …
Mark Shepard, There Are No Facts. Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life, MIT Press, 2022 The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power: how data and algorithms shape the world—and shape us within that world. With the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the …
Theoretical Puppets: G is for Genealogy (Michel Foucault), December 12 2022 Genealogy is a crucial concept in Foucault’s conception of historical research. Here, he explains the difference between “genealogy” and “archaeology.” He also discusses his important essay on “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” underscoring the importance of masquerades and “concerted carnivals.” However, he leaves open the question …
Alessandro Michele’s five best moments at Gucci, Hunger, 24 November 2022 Following last night’s news that Michele will be departing Gucci, HUNGER takes a look back at some of his best sartorial moments, as we bid farewell to his double G genius for now. […] Message for the masses The SS20 Gucci show was opened …
Leib, R.S. Goffman and Foucault: Framing the micro-physics of power (2022) The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies Edited By Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Greg Smithpp, Routledge, 349-360. DOI: 10.4324/9781003160861-33 Abstract The works of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault are theoretically and practically complementary in many ways. First, I review areas of overlap between Goffman and …
Hofmeyr, B. Knowledge work in the age of control: capitalising on human capital (2022) Acta Academica, 54 (1), pp. 40-68. DOI: 10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/3 Abstract The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this article is that power in the form of control is exerted in a more insidious manner now that knowledge work has become …
Villadsen, K. Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs (2022) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310221125350 Abstract A steady stream of commentary criticizes Foucault’s ‘agentless position’ for its inability to observe, much less theorize, the ways in which human actors manoeuvre, negotiate, transform or resist the structures within which they are …
Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh Herman Westerink Philosophy From …
Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation by Richard Lynch. Richard Lynch has updated his very valuable bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation. You can find the bibliography and associated material on this page on Foucault News Daniele Lorenzini will be updating the Bibliography from 2023 onwards.
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