Foucault News

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

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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Emanuele Iula, “L’eredità foucaultiana di Judith Butler”, in Rassegna di teologia, 2017 (4), pp. 639-660. Article on academia.edu Abstract: Foucauldian influence on Butler’s work is evident at least in three points: in the constitution of the subject by a true speech about sexuality, in the genealogical method and in inheriting the Foucauldian project itself. The …

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Josh Jones, The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972-2018) | Open Culture, 9 March 2018 Extract Radical Philosophy has published essays and interviews with nearly all of the big names in academic philosophy on the left—from Marxists, to post-structuralists, to post-colonialists, to phenomenologists, …

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Ana Sofia Elias and Rosalind Gill, Beauty surveillance: The digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism (2018) European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (1), pp. 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417705604 Abstract This article argues that ‘beauty apps’ are transforming the arena of appearance politics and foregrounds a theoretical architecture for critically understanding them. Informed by a feminist-Foucaultian framework, it argues …

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Kélina Gotman (2018) Foucault, Aufklärung, and the Historical ‘Scene’, Parallax, 24:1, 45-61, DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2017.1415257 Beginning of article No philosopher can go without examining his own participation in this us precisely because it is this us which is becoming the object of the philosopher’s own reflection. Michel Foucault, ‘What Is Revolution?’ What does it take to imagine another …

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Confluence Concourse: Call for Publication: Special Issue on “Political Genealogy after Foucault” Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide range …

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Wendy Luna, Emancipating Intellectual Property from Proprietarianism: Drahos, Foucault, and a Quasi-Genealogy of IP, Genealogy 2018, 2(1), 6; doi:10.3390/genealogy2010006 Abstract This paper argues that Peter Drahos undertakes a partial Foucauldian genealogy by emancipating intellectual property (IP) from proprietarianism. He demonstrates the dominance of proprietarianism in IP by drawing sample practices from trademark, copyright, and patent …

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Katarina Damjanov, David Crouch, (2018) ‘Orbital Life on the International Space Station’ Space and Culture 22(1) First Published January 9, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331217752621 Abstract The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest object in the earth’s orbit and currently the only environment that harbors human life outside the planet. This habitable satellite operates as a sophisticated scientific laboratory …

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Gürhan Özpolat, Between Foucault and Agamben: An Overview of the Problem of Euthanasia in the context of Biopolitics (2017) Beytulhikme International Journal of Philosophy 7(2) https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.373466 Abstract In this paper, considering the fact that special forms of dying and killing are mostly seen in a shadowy zone or blurred boundary between life and death, I …

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