Foucault News

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

Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023 Foucault Before the Collège de France Stuart Elden Orazio Irrera Daniele Lorenzini Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel? Pierre Macherey Foucault and the History of Anthropology: Man, before the ‘Death of Man’ Arianna Sforzini Michel …

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Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte – Volume 115, Issue 1, 2023 Redactioneel Rondom Foucaults Bekentenissen van het vlees Authors: Steven Dorrestijn & Herman Westerink https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2023.1.001.DORR Artikelen De Onvoltooide By Jeanne Holierhoek https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2023.1.002.HOLI Pastorale macht en zelf-technieken: Foucault en de ascese van de woestijnvaders By Danny Praet https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2023.1.003.PRAE Foucault and the problematics of the will in …

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Colapietro, V. Quotidian Tasks: Habits, Routines, and Rituals (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (4), pp. 491-516. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.4.0491 Abstract The author frames his exploration in terms of Michel Foucault’s distinction between the practice of emancipation in the strict sense and practices of freedom. He proposes to treat rituals of attention as examples of practices …

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Simons, M. “Changing” one’s mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology (2023) Metaphilosophy DOI: 10.1111/meta.12616 Abstract This article argues that historical epistemology offers the history of philosophy and science more than a mere tool to write the history of concepts. It does this, first of all, by rereading historical epistemology through Michel Foucault’s “techniques of the …

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Weiskopf, R. Dis/organising visibilities: Governmentalisation and counter-transparency (2023) Organization, 30 (2), pp. 326-344. DOI: 10.1177/1350508421995751 Abstract This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like …

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Call for Papers Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: A Comparison of their Historical Methodologies The Journal of the Philosophy of History Click on the Call for papers menu item The Journal of the Philosophy of History plans a special issue to explore Arendt and Foucault’s approaches to historical method (broadly conceived) and intellectual history, and, …

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Special Issue: Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, March 2023 Open access Kaspar Villadsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Johannes Lundberg (Århus University) have guest-edited a special issue of the journal Sustainability with the title: “Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability”. The Special Issue eplores themes like the ESG discourse, Green Transition, CSR, …

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Lee H., Lee T. The TraceTogether Matrix Has You – Surveillance, Rationalisation and Tactics of Governance in Singapore’s COVID-19 App (2022) Platform, 9.2 (Special Issue), pp. 77 – 91 Open access ABSTRACT: In the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore rolled out TraceTogether; a contact-tracing mobile app that uses proximity sensing to track the movements …

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Mascaretti G.M. Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance (2023) Philosophy and Social Criticism, DOI: 10.1177/01914537221150497 ABSTRACT: This article offers a comparative exploration of the practices of resistance Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault champion against the structures of modern power their enquiries have the merit to illuminate and contest. After a preliminary examination of …

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Min Lin & Weili Zhao (2023) Untangling the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers through neoliberal, Confucian, and affective technologies: with and beyond Foucault, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2023.2174074 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the making and governing of Hong Kong teachers along and beyond a Foucauldian governmentality lens, untangling how the three …

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