Foucault News

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

Raymond Blake Stricklin, “I have nothing to say”—John Cage, biopower, and the demilitarization of language (2020) Journal of Modern Literature, 43 (3), pp. 98-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.3.06 Abstract In 1975, John Cage read from his chance-generated piece, Empty Words, at the Schizo-Culture conference held at Columbia University. The conference connected Cage with post-1968 theorists like Michel Foucault, …

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Vittoria Borsò, Bio-poetics and the dynamic multiplicity of bios: How literature challenges the politics, economics and sciences of life (2020) In: Kulcsár-Szabó, Z., Lénárt, T., Simon, A., Végső, R. (eds) Life After Literature. Perspectives on Biopoetics, Series: Literature and Theory. Numanities – Arts and Humanities in Progress, vol 12. Springer, Cham pp. 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33738-4_2 Abstract …

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Special Issue: Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. A Rethinking Marxism Dossier | Summer 2020 Foucault related articles in this large issue include The Multitude Divided: Biopolitical Production during the Coronavirus Pandemic Stijn De Cauwer & Tim Christiaens The Biopolitics of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Herd Immunity, Thanatopolitics, Acts of Heroism Ali Rıza Taşkale & Christina …

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Danisha Jenkins, Dave Holmes, Candace Burton, Stuart J. Murray, ‘This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State’: Nursing, ethics, and the immigrant detention apparatus (2020) Nursing inquiry, p. e12358. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12358 Abstract This paper opens with first-hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detainees, in the custody of U.S. Immigration and …

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Patrick Pinkerton, The biopolitics of the migration-development nexus: Governing migration in the UK (2019) Politics, 39 (4), pp. 448-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395718809287 Abstract While politicians in the United Kingdom (UK) have engaged in fractious debate over the appropriate way of responding to the myriad issues arising from the so-called migration or refugee crisis in recent years, there …

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Michiel T’Jampens & Jelle Versieren (2020), Entering the Archive: “Il faut défendre la société” and Michel Foucault’s Critical Archeological Inquiry into the History and Method of Genealogy, Critical Horizons, 21 (3): 240–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2020.1790753 ABSTRACT In “Il faut défendre la société”, Foucault attempted to historicize and criticize Nietzsche’s equating of the social with struggle. In order …

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Daniel Nemser, Infrastructures of Race. Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2017. See also radio interview with Daniel Nemser Description Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city …

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Scheider, Marshall (2020) “Economies of Security: Foucault and the Genealogy of Neoliberal Reason,” Gettysburg Social Sciences Review: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Open access Abstract Michel Foucault is well-known for his theorizations of institutional power, normativity, and biopolitics. Less well-known is the fact that Foucault developed his analysis of biopolitics in and …

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The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19: An Interview with Roberto Esposito, Antipode online, 16th June 2020 Interview conducted (via Skype on 3 June 2020) and translated by Tim Christiaens and Stijn De Cauwer. The Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of various influential books, including the trilogy Communitas: The Origin and Destiny …

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Anton Oleinik, The politics behind how governments control coronavirus data The Conversation (Canada), June 5, 2020 COVID-19 has affected almost every country around the globe. The World Health Organization has confirmed cases in 216 countries and territories, a total that represents more than 85 per cent of 251 entities recognized by the United Nations. Yet …

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