Foucault News

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

Kelly Quinn and Renee M. Powers Revisiting the concept of ‘sharing’ for digital spaces: an analysis of reader comments to online news (2015) Information Communication and Society, 19(4), 442–460. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1092565 Abstract ‘Sharing’ as it relates to the online environment is underconceptualized, and yet has been proposed as a means for understanding how individuals negotiate everyday …

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Christopher R. Mayes, Revisiting Foucault’s ‘Normative Confusions’: Surveying the Debate Since the Collège de France Lectures, Philosophy Compass, Volume 10, Issue 12, pages 841–855, December 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12274 Abstract At once historical and philosophical, Michel Foucault used his genealogical method to expose the contingent conditions constituting the institutions, sciences and practices of the present. His analyses …

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Alessandro Baccarin, L’esploratore e l’intruso. Le scienze dell’antichità di fronte a Michel Foucault, Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia, n.° 5, Gennaio-Giugno 2015, pp. 217-242 A trent’anni dalla sua scomparsa, Michel Foucault costituisce ancora una figura chiave per gli antichisti che indagano le problemantiche inerenti la sessualità e il genere nelle società antiche. Oggi, …

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Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Hugs and behaviour points: Alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth (2015) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2015.1102340 Abstract In England, alternative education (AE) is offered to young people formally excluded from school, close to formal exclusion or who have been informally pushed to …

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Dorrestijn, S. The Care of Our Hybrid Selves: Ethics in Times of Technical Mediation (2015) Foundations of Science, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-015-9440-0 Abstract What can the art of living after Foucault contribute to ethics in relation to the mediation of human existence by technology? To develop the relation between technical mediation and …

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Mifsud, D. The policy discourse of networking and its effect on school autonomy: a Foucauldian interpretation (2015) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1092427 Abstract Policy discourse officially operates to distinctly influence public perception in an irrevocable and normalising manner. In a Maltese educational scenario of gradual decentralisation and …

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Carte Semiotiche Annali 4 – Call For Papers in Italian, English, French and Spanish PDF with full details LE IMMAGINI DEL CONTROLLO. Visibilità e governo dei corpi La redazione di Carte Semiotiche vi invita ad inviare proposte di contributo in italiano, inglese, francese o spagnolo (max. 2000 caratteri spazi inclusi o 500 parole) corredate di …

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Smith, D. Rewriting the Constitution: A Critique of ‘Postphenomenology’ (2015) Philosophy and Technology, 28 (4), pp. 533-551. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-014-0175-6 Abstract This paper builds a three-part argument in favour of a more transcendentally focused form of ‘postphenomenology’ than is currently practised in philosophy of technology. It does so by problematising two key terms, ‘constitution’ and ‘postphenomenology’, …

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Lynne Friedli, Robert Stearn, Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes, Medical Humanities 2015;41:40-47 doi:10.1136/medhum-2014-010622 Open Access Abstract Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work …

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Rudan, P. Society as a Code: Bentham and the Fabric of Order (2015) History of European Ideas, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2015.1077147 Abstract The essay argues that Jeremy Bentham played a major role in the transitional process between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries leading to the ‘discovery’ or ‘invention of society’ as …

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