Michael C. Behrent, Foucault and Technology, History and Technology, Vol. 29, Iss. 1, 2013, 54-104 https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2013.780351 Abstract This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) employed the terms ‘technology’ and the ‘technique’ over the course of his intellectual career. His use of these words in …
Isacco Turina, Vatican biopolitics (2013) Social Compass, 60 (1), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612471776 Abstract The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on …
Luciano Nuzzo, Foucault and the Enigma of the Monster (2013) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (1), pp. 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9275-8 Abstract In this paper Foucault’s thought on monstrosity is explored. Monsters appear whenever and wherever knowledge/power assemblages emerge. That which eludes the latter, and which threatens to subvert them, is the monstrous. Foucault …
Theresa Sauter, (2013), ‘What’s on your mind?’ Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation, New Media and Society, 16(5), 823-839. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813495160 Abstract In the context of modern western psychologised, techno-social hybrid realities, where individuals are incited constantly to work on themselves and perform their self-development in public, the use of online social networking sites …
Ansgar Allen, The Examined Life. On the Formation of Souls and Schooling, American Educational Research Journal, April 2013 vol. 50 no. 2 216-250 https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831212466934 Abstract The spread of examination throughout educational institutions is often viewed as an overly constraining influence, one that distorts pedagogic relationships and prevents more genuine educational activities from taking place. This …
Daan Wesselman, The high line, “the balloon,” and heterotopia (2013) Space and Culture, 16 (1), pp. 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331212451669 Abstract The High Line, a new park on an old elevated railway on Manhattan, is an otherworldly space that invites an understanding in terms of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. However, this often-used term requires critical reflection, particularly …
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 …
