Free 1 Day Conference Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine.] Conveners: Ansgar Allen & Wilfred Carr; Keynotes: Erica Burman & Stephen Ball Hosted, sponsored and funded by the international journal Pedagogy, Culture …
Katarina Damjanov, Lunar cemetery: Global heterotopia and the biopolitics of death (2013) Leonardo, 46 (2), pp. 159-162. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00516 Abstract The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel …
Suze Wilson, Situated knowledge: A Foucauldian reading of ancient and modern classics of leadership thought (2013) Leadership, 9 (1), pp. 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715012455129 Abstract This paper aims to provoke reflection and debate on researcher assumptions and the potential functions and consequences of truth claims made about leadership. A Foucauldian approach informs this comparative case study of …
Victoria Kannen, These are not ‘regular places’: women and gender studies classrooms as heterotopias (2013) Gender, Place and Culture, 21(1), 52–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2012.759910 Abstract This article questions the transformative potential of women and gender studies classrooms through a discussion of student experiences of privilege and oppression in these spaces. Using in-depth interviews with 22 undergraduate students …
Charles Barbour, Doing Justice to Foucault: Legal Theory and the Later Ethics (2013) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (1), pp. 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9281-x Abstract This article provides a critical evaluation of Ben Golder’s and Peter Fitzpatrick’s recent Foucault’s Law, which it characterizes as a decisive intervention into both legal theory and Foucault scholarship. …
Mikko Joronen, Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism (2013) Geopolitics, 18 (2), pp. 356-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2012.723289 Abstract This paper explores the ontological constitution of the neoliberal state. By enriching Michel Foucault’s work on neoliberal governmentality with Heideggerian reading of the ontological conditions involved in the process, the paper …
James Newbery, Space of Discipline and Governmentality: The Singer Sewing Machine Factory, Clydebank, in the Twentieth Century (2013) Scottish Geographical Journal, 129 (1), pp. 15-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2012.738824 Abstract This paper examines work at the Singer factory, Clydebank, in the first half of the twentieth century. It employs a geographical reading of the temporal and spatial strategies …
Matthew Clarke and Barbara Hennig, Motivation as ethical self-formation (2013) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (1), pp. 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2012.715386 Abstract Motivation is a concept more frequently found in venues concerned with educational psychology than in ones concerned with educational philosophy. Under the influence of psychology, and its typically dualistic way of making sense of the world, motivation in education has …
Steven Dorrestijn, Technical Mediation and Subjectivation: Tracing and Extending Foucault’s Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy & Technology, June 2012, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-011-0057-0 Abstract This article focuses on tracing and extending Michel Foucault’s contributions to the philosophy of technology. At first sight his work on power seems the most relevant. In his later …
Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Ernst Cassirer It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits – finding it required some (though…
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