Foucault News

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

Karen Bennett, Foucault in English, The politics of exoticization, In Translation in times of technocapitalism, Edited by Stefan Baumgarten and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell [Target 29:2] 2017, pp. 222–243, Published online: 29 June 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/target.29.2.02ben Abstract It is something of a cliché to affirm that translations into English are almost always domestications, privileging fluency and naturalness over …

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Chambers, S.A. Subject positions and seriality in the good wife, In Hudelet, Ariane, and Anne Crémieux, eds. Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television. Routledge, 2020., pp. 233-258. DOI: 10.4324/9781003044772-17 Abstract This chapter explores the cultural politics of the US network drama The Good Wife (2009-2016). By reading the idea of “the …

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Robb L., Deane F. (2021) Smart Cities as Panopticon: Highlighting Blockchain’s Potential for Smart Cities Through Competing Narratives. In: Wang B.T., Wang C.M. (eds) Automating Cities. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8670-5_12 Abstract This chapter argues that the narratives of smart cities demonstrate the potential value of blockchain technologies. Drawing upon competing …

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Philo, C. (2019). Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion– inclusion and the spatial history of social policy. In Whitworth A. (Ed.), Towards a Spatial Social Policy: Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy (pp. 41-68). Bristol: Bristol University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvs1g92b.7 Foucault as spatial historian of social policy Heeding the central purpose of the …

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Vittoria Borsò, Bio-poetics and the dynamic multiplicity of bios: How literature challenges the politics, economics and sciences of life (2020) In: Kulcsár-Szabó, Z., Lénárt, T., Simon, A., Végső, R. (eds) Life After Literature. Perspectives on Biopoetics, Series: Literature and Theory. Numanities – Arts and Humanities in Progress, vol 12. Springer, Cham pp. 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33738-4_2 Abstract …

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Schubert, Karsten (2019): The Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP. In: Helene Gerhards und Kathrin Braun (ed.): Biopolitiken – Regierungen des Lebens heute. Wiesbaden: Springer, 121–153 doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-25769-9_5. Abstract PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a relatively new drug-based HIV prevention technique and an important means to lower the HIV risk of gay men who are especially vulnerable to …

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Emma Foster, Foucault and Ecology, in Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316492864.010 Summary A Foucauldian perspective offers a number of interesting and significant insights into the relationship between the cultural representations of ‘Nature’ and the processes of subjectification that underpin environmentalism and ecologism. …

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Taylor C. (2013) The Discourses of Climate Change. In: Cadman T. (eds) Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006127_2 Abstract Climate change has been represented in a variety of ways. These representations have enacted their own discursive formations, which people discuss and act upon at local, national and …

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Gabriela Valdivia, “Eco-Governmentality” In The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Edited By Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy, Routledge, 2015 Abstract “Eco-governmentality” is a Foucaultian-inspired power analytic that political ecologists use to examine nature–society relationships. Since its early days, political ecologists have used Marxist-inspired critique to explain environmental domination and oppression (Watts 1983; Blaikie and Brookfield 1987; …

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Rasker, Maya. “A Letter to Foucault.” In Artistic Research and Literature, edited by Caduff Corina and Wälchli Tan, 35-46. Boston: Brill, 2019. Open access Abstract: Investigating in what way some aspects of Foucault’s work can be fruitful to ‘think’ writing-as-research, a letter to Foucault as academic fiction unravels and valuates the paradoxes that emerge from connecting …

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