Foucault News

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

Lassen, I. Resisting dehumanization: citizen voices and acts of solidarity (2018) Critical Discourse Studies, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2018.1441038 Abstract Recent years have seen an increase in the influx of asylum-seekers in Scandinavia, and in Denmark this has led to ever-tighter immigration control. This article discusses emerging practices of refugee solidarity and resistance …

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Glen Fuller, Renee Barnes, A history of anticipating the future: an analysis of the AN Smith lectures, Andrew Olle Lectures and media commentary, Media International Australia Article first published online: April 19, 2018 DOI: 10.1177/1329878X18768012 Abstract There are multiple narratives of technological and organisational change for making sense of the news media industry since the …

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Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Educación, racismo cultural y seguridad nacional: la escuela intercultural en contextos de violencia, Educação e Pesquisa, vol.44 São Paulo 2018 Epub 16-Abr-2018 DOI:10.1590/s1678-4634201844174819 Open access Education, cultural racism and national security: the intercultural school in contexts of violence RESUMEN El artículo recoge conclusiones parciales de un proyecto en curso, financiado por Fondecyt (nº11140804) …

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Ian Leask, ‘”The Happy Limbo of a Non-Identity” (Or: Herculine Barbin’s Possibility)’, Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2014-15, pp.85-98. [published in 2018] The treatment of the ‘hermaphrodite’ in Foucault’s work remains ripe for scholarly attention, especially given the insight it provides into the nature and development of his thinking about issues like the construction …

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Albert, M., Vasilache, A. Governmentality of the Arctic as an international region (2018) Cooperation and Conflict, 53 (1), pp. 3-22. DOI: 10.1177/0010836717703674 Abstract Linked to the image of a wild and still-to-be-explored territory, as well as to images of the region as one of new economic opportunities, discourses on the Arctic also tie in with …

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Talcott, Samuel (2013). Georges Canguilhem and the Philosophical Problem of Error. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 52, pp 649-672 doi:10.1017/S0012217313001200 Abstract There is still a question about what it means to say that Georges Canguilhem was a philosopher of error. This paper, unlike other work on the topic, investigates archival sources and early texts, up to …

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Talcott, Samuel (2014). Errant life, molecular biology, and biopower: Canguilhem, Jacob, and Foucault. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 36, pp. 254-279 doi:10.1007/s40656-014-0023-0 Abstract: This paper considers the theoretical circumstances that urged Michel Foucault to analyse modern societies in terms of biopower. Georges Canguilhem’s account of the relations between science and the living forms …

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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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