Foucault News

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

Chevallier, Philippe. « Foucault avant Foucault », Archives de Philosophie, vol. 85, no. 3, 2022, pp. 151-156. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.853.0151 Article en accès gratuit jusqu’au 30/07/22 sur : https://www.cairn.info/tap-gmsjcp22r371o En 2013, la Bibliothèque nationale de France a acquis les archives de Michel Foucault, désormais réparties dans 117 boîtes de conservation, complétées depuis par quelques dons de ses …

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La Vie des hommes infâmes. Film de Gilles Deroo et Marianne Pistone (2022) Critique : La Vie des hommes infâmes par Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa, 07/07/2022 Gilles Deroo et Marianne Pistone sculptent une œuvre de fiction passionnante, riche et subtile sous son austérité apparente, sur les frontières de la norme sociale et de la nature humaine …

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Histoire de la sexualité de Michel Foucault Épisodes Est-ce à force de culpabiliser le plaisir qu’on le provoque et l’intensifie ? Épisode 4/4 : Volume 4 “Les aveux de la chair”, le plaisir est-il coupable ? Comment et pourquoi le plaisir sexuel est-il devenu coupable ? Et est-ce à force de culpabiliser le plaisir qu’on …

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Segni e Comprensione Deadline April 15, 2023. Interested researchers are invited to submit their paper by sending their article of no more than 60,000 characters, including spaces, to the email address fabio.sulpizio@unisalento.it by 15 April 2023. Papers may be submitted in Italian, French, English, German or Spanish. Michel Foucault La morte di Michel Foucault, avvenuta …

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Rose, P.A. The Tug-of-War Over Truth: A Foucauldian Case Study on the Interplay of Competing Discourses in Education (2022) Frontiers in Education, 7, art. no. 840403 DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.840403 Abstract The present study applies a Foucauldian critical analytic to investigate competing discourses in education that are shown to be present in one public high school in …

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The Critique and Politics of Identity: On the Affinities between Critical Theory and Poststructuralism. A Conversation with Bernard E. Harcourt and Martin Saar conducted by Sarah Bianchi, Coils of the Serpent. A Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power, Issue 10, 2022, pp. 110-130. We know what Michel Foucault, the leading poststructuralist thinker, said about …

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Hewitt, M. How Does a Foucauldian Genealogical Approach Enhance the Study of Long-Term Care through a Critical Disability Lens? (2022) Societies, 12 (3), art. no. 73 DOI: 10.3390/soc12030073 Abstract Younger disabled adults in long-term care, particularly those with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses, receive care that does not fit their needs. This article looks at …

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Borah, R.R., Bhuvaneswari, G., Hussain, M.M. When Worlds Collide: Using films to Understand the Heterotopic Overlaps of Multiple Worlds (2022) ECS Transactions, 107 (1), pp. 2363-2370. DOI: 10.1149/10701.2363ecst Abstract Heterotopia is an idea as put forward by Michel Foucault, from the notion of place and non-place as disruptive elements. This article explores the fascination with …

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Barry, L. Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity (2022) Theory, Culture and Society DOI: 10.1177/02632764221087932 Abstract Despite their common core in statistics, insurance and epidemiology propel two different forms of solidarity. In insurance, the collective is a source of protection, thanks to the pooling of risks; in epidemics by contrast, the group remains the …

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Zhang, H., Powell, D. Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing (2022) International Review for the Sociology of Sport DOI: 10.1177/10126902221101993 Abstract The Chinese government views the Olympic Games as a critical platform to present national pride on a global scale. Olympic education also has an important role to play for China, as …

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