Foucault News

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

Kabalay, B. (2024). Fail-Yapı İlişkisine Yersizleştirme Üzerinden Bir Müdahale: Foucault’nun İktidar Analizi Örneği. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 22(2), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.1467977 ÖZET Bu çalışma fail ve yapı arasındaki ilişkinin ontolojik bir hiyerarşiye referans veren yer metaforuna bağlanarak açıklanmasını eleştirmektedir. Çünkü bu ontolojik düzlemde, yerde mevcudiyeti bulunan şey diğer nesneyi ikincil bir fenomen haline …

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PHILOSOPHY TODAY An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy Call for Papers Special Issue: Foucault’s Concept of Experience Special issue editors Vilde Lid Aavitsland (University of Louisville) Leonhard Riep (Goethe University Frankfurt) PDF of call for papers Experience is a key concept in Foucault’s work, yet its centrality has long been overlooked. In many of his …

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He, X. Juxtaposition of English and Japanese native-speakerism: through the concept of the international university being a heterotopia (2024) Asian Englishes DOI: 10.1080/13488678.2024.2350085 Abstract Research on the native-speakerism ideology of different languages has demonstrated the unbalanced power relation created between those who are labeled as native speaker (NS) and as non-native speaker (NNS). While the …

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Ximenez, A. What is wrong with urban regeneration practices? Towards a Foucauldian analysis of urban regeneration documents. (2024) Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, 2024 (24), . DOI: 10.4000/articulo.5650 Abstract Urban design practices are hard to analyse and critique. In this paper, we suggest that part of the difficulty can be alleviated if one problematises …

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Krylova, A. Foucault, Post-structuralism, and the Fixed “Openness of History” (2024) Modern Intellectual History DOI: 10.1017/S1479244324000088 Abstract Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians’ encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts …

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Loriane Lafont-Grave, The Mystical Quality of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh: An Inquiry from Within, The Journal of Religion 2024 104:2, 145-170 Abstract This article offers an investigation of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh—published in 2018, thirty-four years after the death of the author—through a literary approach. It argues that “The Laborious Baptism,” the second …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Biopolitical Leviathan: Understanding State Power in the Era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the State”, Theoria 71, 178 (2024): 48-74, https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2024.7117803 Abstract The coronavirus pandemic made the biopolitics of infection control the core object of states around the world. Globally, states governed spheres usually free of state control, implementing …

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Bannikov, K.V., Radina, N.K. Biopolitical media discourse in France in the COVID-19 pandemics (2023) RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 28 (3), pp. 553-565. DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-3-553-565 Abstract The publication activities of the French media during the COVID-19 pandemic in a biopolitical way are analyzed. The theoretical frame of the study is set by …

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Hofmeyr, A.B. A critical consideration of Foucault’s conceptualisation of morality (2024) Verbum et Ecclesia, 45 (1), art. no. a2830, . DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2830 Abstract The background of this research is the status and significance of an ethics of care of the self in the history of morality. I followed the following methodology: I attempted to come …

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Carlo, Andrea di. “The Problem of Toleration: Tacitus, Foucault and Governmentality.” History of European Ideas, (2024), 1–16. doi:10.1080/01916599.2024.2346031 ABSTRACT This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne’s and Bayle’s comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example of governmentality, a strategy to govern a …

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