Foucault News

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

Bert, Jean-François. « Michel Foucault défenseur de l’ethnologie. « La magie – le fait social total », une leçon inédite des années 1950 », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 281-303. DOI: 10.3917/zil.002.0281 Les milliers de pages de notes manuscrites de Michel Foucault, conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), donnent à voir …

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Foucault, Michel. « La magie – le fait social total », Zilsel, vol. 2, no. 2, 2017, pp. 305-326. DOI 10.3917/zil.002.0305 – Rapport à la société – Rapport à la technique qu’elle imite. – Rapport à la société D’un côté opposition à la société – Ségrégation du magicien dans la société, ce qui n’arrive pas …

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Grohmangrohman, S. Making space for free subjects: Squatting, resistance, and the possibility of ethics (2018) HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8 (3), pp. 506-521. DOI: 10.1086/701113 Open access Abstract Anthropologists working on ethics have emphasized the importance of freedom for the becoming of ethical subjects. While some have therefore aligned themselves with the later work …

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Ippolito, J. Reading Interventionist Research in Two Urban Elementary Schools Through a Discursive Lens (2018) Urban Education, 53 (10), pp. 1265-1290. DOI: 10.1177/0042085915613550 Abstract In this study, I reframe the debate on minority parents and their children’s educators by moving beyond concerns around student academic achievement and toward the quality of relationships among adult stakeholders. …

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Haskaj, F. From biopower to necroeconomies: Neoliberalism, biopower and death economies (2018) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 44 (10), pp. 1148-1168. DOI: 10.1177/0191453718772596 Open access Abstract The deaths of millions from war, genocide, poverty and famine are symptomatic of a crisis that extends beyond site-specific failures of governance, culture or economies. Rather than reiterate standard critiques …

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Michael A. Peters and Danilo Taglietti, Deleuze’s rhizomatic analysis of Foucault: Resources for a new sociology? (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1551831 Abstract This paper analyses and examines Deleuze’s Foucault as a means of investigating intellectual resources for a new sociology–one that, in Foucault’s name, is neither foundationalist nor representationalist but genuinely other than the …

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Koopman, C. Information before information theory: The politics of data beyond the perspective of communication (2019) New Media and Society, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1177/1461444818820300 Abstract Scholarship on the politics of new media widely assumes that communication functions as a sufficient conceptual paradigm for critically assessing new media politics. This article argues that communication-centric …

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Borderlands, Issue 17.2, 2018 Migration and Mobility Politics Open access. The contributions from Richie Wyver, Steven Farry, Fabiane Ramos, Mahmoud Kesharvarz and Eric Snodgrass, and Lewis Rarm, shine light upon the complex production of otherness both within and across the borders of the contemporary nation-state. The authors employ a range of critical tools, from Bhabha’s …

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Pariseau-Legault, P., Holmes, D., Murray, S.J. Understanding human enhancement technologies through critical phenomenology (2019) Nursing Philosophy, 20 (1), art. no. e12229 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12229 Abstract Human enhancement technologies raise serious ethical questions about health practices no longer content simply to treat disease, but which now also propose to “optimize” human beings’ physical, cognitive and psychological abilities. …

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Michel Agier, Camps, Encampments, and Occupations: From the Heterotopia to the Urban Subject (2019) Ethnos, 84 (1), pp. 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1549578 Abstract This article aims to understand the main principles that design a worldwide landscape of precarious spaces. I argue that the increasing and more constraining policies of exclusion provoke the repeated creation of limits and …

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