Foucault News

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

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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Nudges: Better choices?, The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, Volume 37, Number 1, 2016. Special issue. Nudges:Better choices? Introduction Malik Bozzo-Rey, Anne Brunon-Ernst, and Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, (Membres du French Nudge Project) Brief excerpt Nudges en questions L’ouvrage Nudge de Cass Sunstein et Richard Thaler1 est singulier à plusieurs titres : il est en effet rare …

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CALL FOR PAPERS materiali foucaultiani journal / Associazione italiana Walter Benjamin Foucault and Benjamin Materiali foucaultiani journal and the Italian Association “Walter Benjamin” launch a call for papers dedicated to a comparison between Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault. MF journal proposes to open up new research pathways that jointly crisscross the works of Benjamin and Foucault, beyond the …

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Réal Fillion, Freedom, Responsibility, and the ‘American Foucault’, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Volume: 30 issue: 1, page(s): 115-126 January 1, 2004 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453704039400 Abstract Foucault’s work is rich enough to sustain multiple readings. I argue in this paper for the continued construction and maintenance of what I have called the ‘American Foucault’, whose principal preoccupation is …

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Alexandre Lefebvre, The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought Genealogy 2017, 1(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy1010002 Open access Abstract This article examines the reasons why Foucault thought that morality based on the care of the self died out in the modern age. I pay special attention to his contention that modern …

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