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

Daniele Lorenzini Benjamin/Foucault : histoire, discontinuité, utopie, Phantasia, Volume 7 – 2018 Résumé Cet article se propose de montrer qu’un dialogue « à distance » entre Benjamin et Foucault peut être construit à partir d’au moins trois thèmes. Premièrement, leur conception du moment présent, ou plus précisément, du rapport vertical que le présent institue avec …

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Tim Christiaens, Financial Neoliberalism and Exclusion with and beyond Foucault, Theory, Culture & Society, December 22, 2018 DOI: 10.1177/0263276418816364 Abstract In the beginning of the 1970s Michel Foucault dismissed the terminology of ‘exclusion’ for his projected analytics of modern power. This rejection has had major repercussions on the theory of neoliberal subject-formation. Many researchers disproportionately …

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Cadernos Nietzsche versão impressa ISSN 1413-7755versão On-line ISSN 2316-8242 Cad. Nietzsche vol.39 no.2 São Paulo maio/ago. 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2316-82422018v3902cer Open access Nietzsche, a genealogia, a história: Foucault, a genealogia, os corpos Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro Professor da Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil. RESUMO Este artigo analisa as quatro primeiras partes do …

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New issue of Critical Inquiry: Davidson and His Interlocutors Volume 45, Number 2 | Winter 2019 Open access Articles in this issue include amongst others David Halperin, Queer Love Daniele Lorenzini, The Emergence of Desire: Notes Toward a Political History of the Will Michel Foucault, Structuralism and Literary Analysis

Matko Krce-Ivančić (2018) Governing through anxiety. Journal for Cultural Research, 22(3), 262–277. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1537587 ABSTRACT This article examines anxiety, arguing that it is a systemic feature of neoliberalism which regenerates the economy and acts in a conservative manner, thereby effectively preventing social change. Anxiety is explored using psychoanalytic theory to extend Foucault’s conception of neoliberal governmentality …

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Marc Schuilenburg and Rik Peeters, Smart cities and the architecture of security: pastoral power and the scripted design of public space, City Territory and Architecture (2018) 5, 13 DOI10.1186/s40410-018-0090-8 Abstract The architecture of security is often thought of in terms of situational crime prevention and defensible space. In this article, we argue that the emergence …

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Randell-Moon, H., 2018. Digital Cartography Enterprise: Neoliberalism, Governmentality and Digital Infrastructure. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 13(2), pp.77–95. DOI:http://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.293 Abstract The Gigatown competition (2013–2015) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a New Zealand town ‘the fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a social media …

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  materiali foucaultiani volume VI, number 11-12 (January-December 2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS Le confessioni della carne  (pp. 3-6) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Michel Foucault et la subjectivation Introduzione. Soggettivazione e assoggettamento, a partire da Foucault  (pp. 9-14)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Subjectivité et normativité …

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Antonio Pele (2018) Human Dignity in the Renaissance? Dignitas Hominis and “Spiritual counter-subjectivity”: a Foucauldian Approach. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718814874 Abstract: The historical making of human dignity is usually understood either as a result of a progressive history of the recognition of the human being’s worthiness or as an upward equalization of ranks. The present …

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Tarasova, E. (Non-) Alternative energy transitions: Examining neoliberal rationality in official nuclear energy discourses of Russia and Poland (2018) Energy Research and Social Science, 41, pp. 128-135. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.008 Abstract Neoliberal trends are a part of the sociopolitical contexts that shape present-day energy transitions. Economic arguments extensively used in nuclear energy discourses regarding the Nuclear …

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