Foucault News

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

Nainani, D. The spatio-legality of corporate sovereignty in AppleTV+‘s Severance (2025) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary. Edited By Alex Green, Mitchell Travis, Kieran Tranter, Routledge, pp. 293-314. DOI: 10.4324/9781003412274-17 Abstract In the Apple TV+ drama Severance, both the corporate and the human body are reimagined in terms of its legal personhood and identity. Using a …

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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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Butchart, G.C. Poststructuralism: A Philosophy of Difference, (2025) In The Handbook of Communication Ethics. Edited By Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jason Hannan, Second Edition, Routledge, pp. 93-107. DOI: 10.4324/9781003274506-9 Abstract This chapter offers an overview of poststructuralism as relevant to media and communication ethics. Research informed by poststructuralist thinking typically emphasizes alterity over identity, …

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Zeytin, E. Constructivist heterotopia or taylorist dystopia? Layers of cinematic space in Chaplin’s “modern times”(2024) Architecture in Cinema, Editors: Nevnihal Erdoğan, Hikmet Temel Akarsu , Bentham Books, pp. 120-128. Abstract In a metaphorical reading, the industrialized modern city of Modern Times is a gigantic factory designed to produce the modern man. It tries to regulate …

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Radtke, R.I. The laneway: Urbanism through the lens of interiority and heterotopia (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 34-42. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-6 Abstract The laneway is an intimate form of functional space central to the historic evolution of cities. A balance of public and private, fast and slow, interior and …

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Scelsa, J.A. The museum: An urban threshold (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 108-115. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-15 Abstract The evolution of the museum is a story of the functional problems of designing spaces for display within a larger framework. The museum has been identified by Michel Foucault as an ‘otherspace,’ …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball, (2024). The School Is Irredeemable: Proposing Discomfort for a Different Future for Education. In: Beasy, K., Maguire, M., te Riele, K., Towers, E. (eds) Innovative School Reforms. Education, Equity, Economy, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64900-4_11 Abstract The chapter argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. Contrary to …

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Ogden, S.G. (2024). Defying Strongman Politics: On Theologians and the Cultivation of Resistant Subjectivity in a Time of Global Crisis. In: Babie, P.T., Sarre, R. (eds) Religion Matters: Volume 2 . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9777-0_10 Abstract We have to live with strongman politics for some time to come. With no obvious political solutions in sight, then, …

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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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