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

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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Echoes of Foucault, forty years after The Foucault Circle NL/BE is organizing a conference about interdisciplinary uses of Foucault’s work, with a focus on themes which Foucault did not think much about himself, but we do. Among other topics, colonialism and decolonization, gender, ecology. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Biopolitical Leviathan: Understanding State Power in the Era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the State”, Theoria 71, 178 (2024): 48-74, https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2024.7117803 Abstract The coronavirus pandemic made the biopolitics of infection control the core object of states around the world. Globally, states governed spheres usually free of state control, implementing …

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Bannikov, K.V., Radina, N.K. Biopolitical media discourse in France in the COVID-19 pandemics (2023) RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 28 (3), pp. 553-565. DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-3-553-565 Abstract The publication activities of the French media during the COVID-19 pandemic in a biopolitical way are analyzed. The theoretical frame of the study is set by …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Marrying the Sources and Mechanisms of Power? Understanding the Quarantine Hotel through Michel Foucault and Michael Mann.” Journal of Political Power, (2024), 1–20. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2024.2337617 ABSTRACT Using the Norwegian quarantine hotel as a case, I analyse the narratives of 46 ‘guests’, so to explore this biopolitical device, which for biopolitical objectives enables …

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Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth. Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life, Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 2023 paperback Critically re-examines canonical theories of biopolitics in the post-truth context Argues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation of biopolitical governance Undertakes a genealogical investigation of the origins of the contemporary post-truth regime in early post-communist politics …

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materiali foucaultiani, volume X, numero 19-20 (gennaio-dicembre 2021) Open access SOMMARIO L’ambiente del governo. Biopolitica ed ecologia politica a cura di Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Introduzione. La biopolitica e il clima della storia (pp. 5-18) Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Gouvernementalité et écologie (pp. 19-44) Emanuele Leonardi, Luigi Pellizzoni L’impasse de l’antinaturalisme …

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Ottavio Marzocca, Il virus della biopolitica: forme e mutazioni, Edizioni Efesto (2023) La pandemia ha confermato che la biopolitica è una forma essenziale della politica dominante. Essa tuttavia non ne è il “paradigma”, ma è parte di un insieme di tecniche di governo, in cui il primato della razionalità economica s’intreccia con la pervasività delle …

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Prewitt, Ryan, and Max Accardi. “Cultural Necromancy: Digital Resurrection and Hegemonic Incorporation.” SubStance 52, no. 2 (2023): 74-101. https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2023.a907150. Abstract: This essay follows the recent discourse on two phenomena: the tendency of hegemony to incorporate subversive cultures, and the digital reanimation of prominent dead people. At the intersection of these phenomena lies what we call …

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Foeken, E. (2023). Embodied, caring and disciplinary: A Foucauldian reading of ‘process time’ as constitutive of the biopolitical institution of the family. Time & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X231176434 ‘Process time’ describes the recursive/fluid, social and embodied temporality that characterises much ‘women’s work’. Though this concept has proven highly useful to feminist analyses of caring and other feminised …

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