Foucault News

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

Kim Su Rasmussen, Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism, Theory, Culture & Society September 2011 vol. 28 no. 5 34-51 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411410448 Abstract This paper argues that Foucault’s genealogy of racism deserves appreciation due to the highly original concept of racism as biopolitical government. Modern racism, according to Foucault, is not merely an irrational prejudice, a form of …

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Munro, I. (2011), The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations after Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews. August https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00320.x Abstract This paper provides a review of the reception of Foucault’s later work on biopolitics within management and organization studies and contrasts this with the reception of these ideas in sister fields of research in the social …

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Marcelo Hoffman, “Containments of the Unpredictable in Arendt and Foucault”, Telos 154 (Spring 2011). https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154141 Abstract This article takes as its principal provocation Giorgio Agamben’s claim that Hannah Arendt’s analyses of totalitarianism do not obtain a biopolitical perspective and that, conversely, Michel Foucault’s analyses of biopolitics fall short of adequately addressing totalitarian states, thereby leaving …

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Politics Beyond the Biopolitical Subject A Symposium Brisbane, Australia, December 8-9, 2011 Hosted by Griffith University Funded by the Finnish Academy The theory of biopolitics has, in the years since Michel Foucault first deployed the concept, taken a decidedly affirmative turn. No longer is biopolitics theorized simply to expose the violence done to human beings …

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