Foucault News

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

Elden, S. Review: Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair (2018) Theory, Culture and Society, 35 (7-8), pp. 293-311. DOI: 10.1177/0263276418800206 Abstract In February 2018 the fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality was finally published. Les aveux de la chair [Confessions of the Flesh] was edited by Frédéric …

Continue reading

Tonner, P. Heidegger, heterotopic dwelling and prehistoric art: An initial indication of a field of research (2018) Religions, 9 (12), art. no. 405. DOI: 10.3390/rel9120405 Open access Abstract This paper begins to develop an interpretation of European cave art based on Martin Heidegger’s account of artistic production and ‘dwelling’ so as to indicate a potentially …

Continue reading

Patrick Gamez, The place of the Iranian Revolution in the history of truth: Foucault on neoliberalism, spirituality and enlightenment (2019) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45 (1), pp. 96-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718794751 Abstract In this article I want to argue that Foucault’s engagement with the Iranian Revolution was neither romantic fascist atavism nor does it presage any sort …

Continue reading

Whelan, G. Born Political: A Dispositive Analysis of Google and Copyright (2019) Business and Society, 58 (1), pp. 42-73. DOI: 10.1177/0007650317717701 Abstract Google is a complex and complicated political beast with a significant, and often confusing, interest, in copyright matters. On one hand, for example, Google is widely accused of profiting from piracy. On the …

Continue reading

O’Toole, J. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in Ireland (2019) Fat Studies, 8 (1), pp. 10-24. DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1534463 Abstract The persistence of dominant social and cultural representations of weight loss renders it as normative and necessary, especially for women. One setting in which the goal of weight loss is relentlessly pursued …

Continue reading

Special Issue: Processes of Subjectivation: Biopolitics and the Politics of Literature, Comparative Literature and Culture 20.4 (2018)_ Issue 20.4 (December 2018) Ed. Azucena G. Blanco   The Eventualization of Political Thinking: From the Arab Revolutions to the Trump Era Oscar Barroso The Composition of History: a Critical Point of View of Michel Foucault’s Archaeology Javier …

Continue reading

Gálvez Aguirre, Javier. “The Composition of History: a Critical Point of View of Michel Foucault’s Archaeology.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 20.4 (2018): DOI:10.7771/1481-4374.3359 Abstract: In “The Composition of History: a Critical Point of View of Michel Foucault’s Archaeology” Javier Gálvez discusses a very specific aspect within the work of Foucault: the role of the …

Continue reading

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 …

Continue reading

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 …

Continue reading

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 …

Continue reading