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

Geller, P.L. In Small Plastic Things Forgotten: The Contradictions and Consequences of Biopower (2025) In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics Edited By Genevieve Godin, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet, John Schofield, Routledge, pp. 152-166. DOI: 10.4324/9781003272311-10 Abstract This chapter explores the contradictions raised by and consequences of small plastic things forgotten that were born …

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Bufkin, S. The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest (2024) Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2405584 Abstract This article uses the case of the 1981 Irish republican prison protest to show that indefinite hunger strikes can force Euromodern states to the negotiating table by undercutting their commitment to good government. …

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Miotto, M. & Daflon, Alessandra (eds.) (2024). Corpo, vida e biopolítica: encontros extensionistas em torno de Michel Foucault. Cachoeirinha: Editora Fi. Open access O livro que o leitor tem em mãos é resultado do I e II Encontro de Estudos sobre Michel Foucault, eventos nacionais ocorridos em 2020-2021 e organizados pelo projeto de extensão da …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, The Incomputability of Calculation: Wittgenstein, Turing and the Question of Artificial Intelligence, Newsletter on the Results of Scholarly Work in Sociology, Criminology, Philosophy and Political Science, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024). Special Issue Tune-Changing World – Every Single Minute DOI: https://doi.org/10.61439/URSA3237 Open access Abstract Calculation is one of the foundational concepts operating at …

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Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this …

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Pavlich, G. Plaguing Segregations: Paradigms of Rule at The Cape of Good Hope (2024) Canadian Journal of Law and Society DOI: 10.1017/cls.2023.25 Abstract Power, while fundamental to sociality, might be exercised with haphazard ferocity or more judiciously in legally constrained ways. Such constraint requires us first to understand how ruling paradigms work, and the effects …

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Krupar, S., Ehlers, N. The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity (2024) Science Technology and Human Values DOI: 10.1177/01622439241265641 Abstract Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We …

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Foucault Studies Number 36: Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy on Contemporary Thinking Introduction: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Valentina Antoniol, Stefano Marino On Foucault’s Legacy: Governmentality, Critique and Subjectivation as Conceptual Tools for Understanding Neoliberalism André …

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Mycoaesthetics Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon Critical Inquiry 2024 50:4, 703-724 DOI: 10.1086/730345#xref_fn37 Abstract This article analyzes the recent growth of popular interest in fungi across commerce, design, wellness, fiction, and film. Focusing on the ways that fungi are said to take the form of distributed networks, we argue that it is primarily through aesthetics …

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