Foucault News

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

Terri Bourke, Mary Ryan, Leonie Rowan, Joanne Lunn Brownlee, Susan Walker & Lyra L’Estrange (2022): Teacher educators’ knowledge about diversity: what enables and constrains their teaching decisions?, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2022.2119369 ABSTRACT Internationally and in Australia, there is growing evidence that graduate teachers feel under prepared to teach diverse groups of children. …

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Bietti, Elettra, A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation (June 3, 2021). 7 Georgetown Law and Technology Review (2022) (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3859487 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3859487 Abstract At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a …

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The Ethics of Richard Rorty. Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination Edited By Susan Dieleman, David E. McClean, Paul Showler, Routledge, 2022 Book Description This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty’s contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and …

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Yokum, N. Juliette’s Endless Prosperities: Foucault avec Lacan on Sade’s Illustrious Villain (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (2), pp. 172-182. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.2.0172 Abstract The Marquis de Sade’s Juliette-well-known as an outrageously murderous, hedonistic anti-heroine-captured the attention of some of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Most of these engagements with Sade have …

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Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions Please register your interest to attend either in person or virtually the?IAS Lecture Series?Michel Foucault and the Body. Questioning the Paradoxes of Juridical and Political Inscriptions?to be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick,…

Ural, A.G., Sariman Ozen, E. An analysis of heterotopic space: Hasanpaşa Gazhane, enlightening once again (2022) A/Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 19 (2), pp. 445-457. DOI: 10.5505/itujfa.2022.97355 Open access Abstract While architectural structures can be physically damaged over the years, they may also become functionally inadequate as a result of the change …

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Mark Jennings, The Anglican split: why has sexuality become so important to conservative Christians? The Conversation, August 29, 2022 The newly formed “Diocese of the Southern Cross” has broken away from the Anglican Church of Australia to form a denomination committed to a highly conservative position on sexuality and marriage equality. Global Anglican Futures Conference …

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Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender. The Medical History of a Transformative Idea, Chicago University Press, 2022 Interview (podcast) with the author on the New Books network An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center …

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Verovšek, P.J. The Reluctant Postmodernism of JÜrgen Habermas: Reevaluating Habermas’s Debates with Foucault and Derrida (2022) Review of Politics, 84 (3), pp. 397-421. DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000316 Abstract Politicians and scholars alike have blamed postmodernism – and the identity politics that have emerged in its wake – for the pathologies of the early twenty-first century. Despite his …

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