Foucault News

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

Hagenmüller, M. Images of control and submission in old kingdom funerary iconography: The Egyptian Tomb as a ‘Disciplinary Institution’ (2023) Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium Edited by Alexandre Loktionov, Archaeopress, pp. 148-160. Abstract I argue that funerary scenes can be studied as what Michel Foucault …

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Niesche, Richard. “Educational Leadership as a (Consumer) Culture Industry.” In Educational Leadership and Critical Theory: What Can School Leaders Learn from the Critical Theorists, edited by Charles L. Lowery , Chetanath Gautam , Robert White and Michael E. Hess , 57–74. Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. pp. 57-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350353459.ch-003

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Jacobs, K., Malpas, J. Politics, Sociology, and the “Inevitability” of Failure Routledge International Handbook of Failure, Edited By Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets, Paweł Kubicki, Routledge, (2023) pp. 423-432. DOI: 10.4324/9780429355950-36 Abstract The chapter begins by pointing out the contribution of sociological interpretations that focus on failure’s discursive and normative effects; for example, as …

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Jiang, N.H. From Audits to Confessionals: The Influence of Accounting Technology on Medieval Penitential Pedagogy (2023) In Katharine D. Scherff, Lane J. Sobehrad (eds) Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Routledge, 2023 pp. 13-31. DOI: 10.4324/9781003295082-3 Abstract This chapter explores the productive influence of fiscal accounting culture on the …

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Baker, E.-R. The Third Reich of Dreams: Resisting fascism through the oneiric unconscious (2023) In Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka (eds) Dreams and Atrocity: The Oneiric in Representations of Trauma, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp. 120-138. DOI: 10.7765/9781526158086.00015 Abstract Between 1933 and 1939, Berlin-based Jewish journalist Charlotte Beradt undertook a clandestine project to collect the …

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Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A. Is employee technological “ill-being” missing from corporate responsibility? The Foucauldian ethics of ubiquitous IT uses in organizations (2022) In Kirsten Martin, Katie Shilton, Jeffery Smith (eds.)Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology, Springer, 2022, pp. 33-55. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04202-y Abstract The ethical issues introduced by excessive uses of ubiquitous information technology (IT) at work …

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Corcoran, M. ‘Leave Something Witchy’: Evolving Representations of Cults and New Religious Movements in Folk Horror (2023) in Robert Edgar, Wayne Johnson (eds) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, Routledge, 2023 pp. 65-76. DOI: 10.4324/9781003191292-8 Abstract The Folk Horror sub-genre, as it is popularly understood, emerged alongside heightened public and media fascination with cults. In …

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Karastergiou, A. AI and Madness (2023) In David Goodman, Matthew Clemente (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology, Routledge, 2023, pp. 281-292. DOI: 10.4324/9781003195849-28 Abstract Are the concepts of “madness” and “normality” applicable to modern AI technologies? In this chapter, we will endeavor on a journey to explore how Foucault’s conception of …

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Michael, R., Donnar, G. Crosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age (2023) in Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 71-83. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26397-2_6 Abstract This chapter introduces an intriguing concept of ‘crosshatch’ fantasy: another world that is superimposed upon consensus reality. Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia …

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Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier, Zwischen Formalismus und Geschichte: Serres und Foucault in Clermont-Ferrand, In: Michel Serres Das vielfältige Denken, Eds Reinhold Clausjürgens and Kurt Röttgers, Brill, 2020, Pages: 193–211 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846765142_013 First paragraph In diesem Beitrag möchte ich zwei Autoren einander annähern, die wir vielleicht nicht gewohnt sind, zusammen zu lesen: Michel Serres und Michel Foucault. …

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