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

Foucault Studies Number 23: August 2017: Discipline and Punish Today Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. PDF 1-3 Special Issue on Discipline and Punish Today Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish Jörg Bernardy, Frieder Vogelmann PDF 4-9 Imagining Foucault. On the digital subject and “visual citizenship” Susanne Krasmann PDF 10-26 Opening …

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Rodden, J. The Intellectual Species: Evolution or Extinction? (2017) Society, 54 (4), pp. 352-354. DOI: 10.1007/s12115-017-0151-8 Abstract John Rodden summarizes the thrust of his work on modern intellectual life, the theme of which is that the uncertain future of the “intellectual species“ warrants extended attention because it is inextricably tied to the ultimate fate of …

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Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience (2017) Journal of Cultural Economy, 10(6), 498–509. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2017.1354312 Abstract Development is concerned with the biological security and well-being of people, and so all development theory and practice are biopolitical in a fundamental sense. The paper argues that for development to be made meaningful, …

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Hull, Gordon, The Subject and Power of Bioethics (July 14, 2017). Journal of Ethics, Medicine and Public Health (Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3002513 Abstract The present paper argues that late work of Michel Foucault is helpful in understanding contemporary bioethics. Specifically, Foucault’s writings on biopower and subjectivity are increasingly relevant as we consider the intersection …

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David Garland, ‘What is a “history of the present”? On Foucault’s genealogies and their critical preconditions’ Punishment & Society (2014) 16(4)365 – 384 https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474514541711 Abstract In this article Michel Foucault’s method of writing a “history of the present” is explained, together with its critical objectives and its difference from conventional historiography. Foucault’s shift from a …

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Schuilenburg, M., & Peeters, R. (2017). Gift politics: exposure and surveillance in the anthropocene. Crime, Law and Social Change, 1-16. Open access Abstract This article discusses the role of gift relations in the Anthropocene. We reinterpret Mauss’s original concept of the gift to understand its application and transformation in a social context that increasingly sees human …

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Paul Sutton, Lost souls? The demoralization of academic labour in the measured university, Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 36 , Iss. 3,2017 DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1289365 ABSTRACT In this conceptual paper, I contend that the soul of academic labour is becoming lost in performativity. Performativity, I explain, is a form of regulation and control that deploys …

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Stephen J Ball, Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast, Policy Futures in education, Volume: 14 issue: 8, page(s): 1046-1059 Article first published online: August 23, 2016;Issue published: November 1, 2016 DOI: 10.1177/1478210316664259 Abstract A major aim of this paper is to draw attention to the insidious manner in which the deficit discourse and practices associated …

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Parrhesía y estética de la existencia, Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos, Núm. 2 (2017) DORSAL ISSN 0719-7519 es una Revista digital publicada por CENALTES Ediciones con acceso abierto a su contenido, de periodicidad semestral y editada por la Red Iberoamericana Foucault. En ella se publican artículos de investigación procedentes de distintas disciplinas científicas que utilicen …

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O’Brien, Peter C. (2017). The adaptive professional: Teachers, school leaders and ethical-governmental practices of (self-) formation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, Pages 1-15 | Published online: 16 Jun 2017 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1339585 Abstract This article analyses the relations that teachers and school leaders establish with themselves and with others—especially those who would seek to govern them—through the …

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