Foucault News

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

Giorgi Vachnadze, The Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies and Eschatological Narratives, Epoché, Issue #73 July 2024 Extract In agreement with Hubert Dreyfus (1972), we could easily say: “The story of artificial intelligence might well begin around 450 B.C.” That won’t give us much beyond words however. That’s not the commitment we can make for …

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Sreenanti Banerjee. Politics of Secularisation, Religious Conversion, and “Saving” the (Hindu) Daughter under Hindutva: Re-reading the Hadiya Court Case. ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. 2024. Vol. 8(2):193-216. DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.2.0193 Abstract This article charts the different modalities of political transgression that marked an act of religious conversion and inter-faith marriage performed by a Muslim …

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Lautaro Colautti, Una multiplicación, un brote del cuerpo. Cine, cuerpo y política en el pensamiento de Foucault, Journal de Ética & Cine, Volumen 14 | Nro 2 | Julio 2024 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3770-6874 Lautaro Colautti, Multiplication, An Outbreak of The Body. The Relationship Between Cinema and Politics in Foucault’s thought Resumen En el presente artículo se pretende …

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Colautti, L. (2024). Apropiaciones argentinas de la arqueología foucaultiana. Cuadernos De Filosofía Latinoamericana, 45(131), 116-141. https://doi.org/10.15332/25005375.9805 Lautaro Colautti, Argentinian Theoretical Uses of Foucault’s Archaeology: The Era of “The Forms” and the Postmodern Episteme Resumen (es) Durante la década del ’60, Foucault realiza sus investigaciones histórico-filosóficas bajo el nombre metodológico de arqueología. Este término para referir …

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Blattner, P. Das wahre Ich. Sexualität und Imperativ der Identität. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-024-00190-5 Open access Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die Verflechtung von der Frage nach der Sexualität und der Frage nach dem wahren Selbst. Durch die eigene Sexualität entdeckt und offenbart sich das Individuum vor sich selbst und anderen. Im Anschluss …

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Mycoaesthetics Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon Critical Inquiry 2024 50:4, 703-724 DOI: 10.1086/730345#xref_fn37 Abstract This article analyzes the recent growth of popular interest in fungi across commerce, design, wellness, fiction, and film. Focusing on the ways that fungi are said to take the form of distributed networks, we argue that it is primarily through aesthetics …

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Steven G. Ogden, Problematising Theism: Miguel Vatter, An-Arche, and Its Implications, Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXVI, 2024, 2, pp. 279-293 ABSTRACT This essay addresses the complexity of the politics-religion nexus. I use the work of Miguel Vatter as my primary source as well as concepts from Michel Foucault’s conceptual toolbox. Specifically, the …

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Torres Apablaza, Iván (2024). Ejercicios de caligrafía filosófica: Michel Foucault y la crítica al humanismo en su lectura temprana de Nietzsche y Heidegger. El Banquete de los Dioses. Revista de Filosofía y teoría Política Contemporáneas. 14 (1), pp. 10-37 https://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/ebdld/article/view/9534 “Philosophical Calligraphy Exercises: Michel Foucault and the Critique of Humanism in his early Reading of …

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de la Rosa, T., Berrocoso, E., Scorza, F.A. Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration (2024) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1007/s11013-024-09855-7 Abstract Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent increase in their prevalence. Characterized as progressive, chronic and debilitating, they often result …

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Guizzo, D. Ceremonial Economics: A Social-Institutional Analysis of Universities, Disciplines, and Academic Positioning (2024) Journal of Economic Issues, 58 (2), pp. 397-423. DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2024.2343246 Abstract What is the future of the university? Many have attempted to unpack what emerging technologies, political pressures, and social scrutiny can do to the status and innovative capacity of universities. …

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