Foucault News

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

Talcott, Samuel. (2017). The Education of Philosophy: From Canguilhem and The Teaching of Philosophy to Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, Philosophy Today, Volume 61, Issue 3 (Summer 2017). doi: 10.5840/philtoday2017918168 Abstract: This paper questions the widespread assumption that education can and should mold students to socially desirable ends. It proceeds by sketching an important part of …

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Daniele Lorenzini (2018), Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life, Journal for Cultural Research https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1461357 Abstract In this paper, I argue that the appropriate answer to the question of the form contemporary neoliberalism gives our lives rests on Michel Foucault’s definition of neoliberalism as a particular art of governing human beings. I claim that …

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Henderson, J. Post-critical writing praxis as a qualitative researcher (2018) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, pp. 1-10. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2017.1422292 Abstract The intention of this paper is to unsettle our habits of scholarly writing and reading, from within the grids of intelligibility of Western, rationalist materiality, so as to make visible …

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Antti Saari, Emotionalities of rule in pedagogical mindfulness literature, Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 15:2, 141-154. DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2017.1359796 Abstract Since the turn of the millennium, mindfulness discourses have penetrated various areas of governing health, well-being, and happiness. A recent sub-genre of popular mindfulness literature is teaching and parenting. This sub-genre includes technologies of the self that …

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Žitko, M. Governmentality verus moral economy: notes on the debt crisis (2018) Innovation, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2018.1429897 Abstract In this paper we revisit the concepts of governmentality and moral economy in the context of subordinate or dependent financialization. Michel Foucault and E.P. Thompson have introducted these concepts in order to capture the …

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Keshet, Y., Popper-Giveon, A. The undisciplined patient in neoliberal society: conscious, informed and intuitive health behaviours (2018) Health, Risk and Society, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2018.1432757 Abstract Applying Foucault’s theoretical concept of discipline, the present article uses the term undisciplined patients to describe those who resist medical authority, defy conventional medical interpretations concerning …

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Foth T, Lange J, Smith K. Nursing history as philosophy—towards a critical history of nursing. Nursing Philosophy. 2018 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12210 Abstract Mainstream nursing history often positions itself in opposition to philosophy and many nursing historians are reticent of theorizing. In the quest to illuminate the lives of nurses and women current historical approaches are driven …

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Brendon Murphy & Jay Sanderson (2018) Soft law, responsibility and the biopolitics of front-of-pack food labels, Griffith Law Review, 26:3, 355-377. DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2017.1436371 ABSTRACT Front-of-pack (FOP) food labels are increasingly used by government and industry to provide nutrition information to consumers for the promotion of healthier eating habits. However, quantitative and qualitative research into the …

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Alister Wedderburn, Tragedy, genealogy and theories of International Relations (2018) European Journal of International Relations, 24 (1), pp. 177-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116689131 Abstract This article interrogates the role of tragedy within the work of International Relations theorists including Michael Dillon, Mervyn Frost, Richard Ned Lebow and Hans Morgenthau. It argues that a tragic sensibility is a constituent …

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Šlesingerová, E. Biopower imagined: Biotechnological art and life engineering (2018) Social Science Information, 57 (1), pp. 59-76. DOI: 10.1177/0539018417745164 Abstract We are witnessing profound changes in our societies via biosciences, biotechnologization, and digitalization. The influence and application of specific engineering rationality and cybernetic perspectives to the complex systems of living structures and to the language …

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