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

Jonasson, K., Eriksson, J. Sovereign Surfing in the Society of Control: The Parkour Chase in Casino Royale as a Staging of Social Change (2022) Social Sciences, 11 (8), art. no. 357 DOI: 10.3390/socsci11080357 Abstract In “Postscript on Societies of Control”, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze proclaimed that “Everywhere surfing has replaced the older sports”. By this, …

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Herculine Barbin. Archéologie d’une révolution Du 15 novembre au 03 décembre 2022 D’après Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. publié et préfacé par Michel Foucault Théâtre 14 20 avenue Marc Sangnier 75014 Paris Adaptation Catherine Marnas et Procuste Oblomov Mise en scène Catherine Marnas Avec Yuming Hey et Nicolas Martel Le projet 1868. Dans une mansarde …

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Garðar Árnason, Foucault and the Human Subject of Science, Springer, 2018 Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics Analyses Foucault’s work on scientific discourses and their interplay with individuals and society Outlines a Foucauldian approach to science criticism and ethical issues regarding research with human subjects Discusses the ethical controversy over plans to construct …

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Hampton, Alexander J. B., and Douglas Hedley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment, Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Description Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and …

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Heterotopic World Fiction. Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps In the series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History, Academic Studies Press, 2022. De Gruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699966 Interview with the authors on the New Books Network, 6 January 2023 About this book This book demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, …

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Gullette, M. M. (2022). Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse. Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113732 Abstract Distinguished gerontologists, ‘guardians of later life’ who had long kept age and ageism at the heart of their work, were asked by the author why the turn to ageism had not been able to raise …

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Foucault, M. (2022). Linguistics and Social Sciences. Theory, Culture & Society, First published online June 20, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221091549 Abstract Written with the suppression of the Tunisian students by their own government in view, Michel Foucault’s March 1968 ‘Linguistics and Social Sciences’ opens up a new horizon of historical inquiry and epitomises Foucault’s abiding interest in …

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Younès Ahouga, « L’Organisation internationale pour les migrations et la surveillance des populations de déplacés du Sud », Revue européenne des migrations internationales, , vol. 38 – n°3 et 4 | 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.21420 Resumé L’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) prône l’usage des données pour stabiliser les populations de déplacés du Sud. Durant …

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Polan, Dana, Review, H-France Review, Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 149, pp.1-4. Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. Clare O’Farrell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018 First, let’s get the issue of the title out of the way: Michel Foucault, it seems, was in his adult years …

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