Foucault News

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

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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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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