Foucault News

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

Engels, K.S. Biopower, Normalization, and HPV: A Foucauldian Analysis of the HPV Vaccine Controversy (2015) Journal of Medical Humanities, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-015-9361-5 Abstract This article utilizes the Foucauldian concepts of biopower and normalization to give an analysis of the debate surrounding the controversial administration of the HPV vaccine to adolescents. My …

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“An Archaeology of Adam Smith’s Epistemic Context” Iara Vigo de Lima and Danielle Guizzo Review of Political Economy, Published online: 26 Oct 2015 (DOI:10.1080/09538259.2015.1082819) Abstract: Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault’s archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault may …

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Miguelángel Verde Garrido, Contesting a biopolitics of information and communications: The importance of truth and sousveillance after Snowden, Surveillance and society, Vol 13, No 2 (2015) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v13i2.5331 Abstract This article aims to provide a novel conceptual understanding of the nature of the global mass surveillance policies and practices revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in collaboration …

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Mathias Schönher, “Deleuze, a Split with Foucault.” Le foucaldien 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.8 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Abstract In 1977, Deleuze and Foucault found themselves in opposite camps in the public dispute among French intellectuals, resulting in a parting of the ways between two colleagues who had for …

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Mitchell Dean, Foucault must not be defended, History and Theory, Volume 54, Issue 3, pages 389–403, October 2015 DOI: 10.1111/hith.10767 Available on academia.edu. You need to log in ABSTRACT This paper responds to and comments on many of the themes of the book under consideration concerning Foucault and neoliberalism. In doing so, it offers reflections …

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Schreiber, V., Stein, C., Pütz, R. Governing childhood through crime prevention: the case of the German school system (2015) Children’s Geographies, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2015.1048426 Abstract Over the last decade, numerous crime prevention programmes have been implemented across the German school sector. Although several serious violent attacks have happened in the last …

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Bogner, A., Torgersen, H. Different ways of problematising biotechnology – and what it means for technology governance (2015) Public Understanding of Science, 24 (5), pp. 516-532. DOI: 10.1177/0963662514539074 Abstract To understand controversies over technologies better, we propose the concept of ‘problematisation’. Drawing on Foucault’s idea of problematisation and on the concept of frames in media …

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Forum: Foucault and Neoliberalism, History and Theory, Volume 54, Issue 3, October 2015. 1. Introduction (pages 367–371) Matthew Specter 2. Can the critique of capitalism be antihumanist? (pages 372–388) Michael C. Behrent 3. Foucault must not be defended (pages 389–403) Mitchell Dean 4. Neoliberalism through Foucault’s eyes (pages 404–418) Serge Audier

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Monstruosités critiques et surdités politiques. Réponse à un article publié dans Clarin à propos de La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault (Une version de cet article en espagnol est également publié sur ce site. A Spanish version of this piece is also available on this website) En 1971, Michel Foucault publie un …

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Spohrer, K. Negotiating and contesting ‘success’: discourses of aspiration in a UK secondary school (2015) Discourse, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1044423 Abstract The need to ‘raise aspirations’ among young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds has been prominent in UK policy debates over the last decade. This paper examines how this discourse is negotiated …

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