Foucault News

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

Elden, S. (2024). Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France. History of European Ideas, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2391378 ABSTRACT This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in France. It looks at the 1951 election of a successor to Étienne Gilson at the Collège de France, for which …

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Elden, Stuart. “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity.” Journal of the History of Ideas 85, no. 3 (2024): 571-600. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a933859. Abstract: The biographical links between Michel Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges Dumézil have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault’s engagements, from a 1957 radio lecture to …

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Les Temps qui restent Newsletter L’ancien comité de rédaction des Temps Modernes, liquidé par Gallimard en 2018 au lendemain de la disparition de Claude Lanzmann, a réuni un très large collectif international, convaincu qu’une revue généraliste animée par la notion d’engagement a plus de sens que jamais dans le contexte actuel, marqué par des années …

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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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