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

Schlosser, Jennifer A. (2013). “Bourdieu and Foucault: A Conceptual Integration Toward an Empirical Sociology of Prisons”. Critical criminology , p. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-012-9164-1 Abstract Although the similarities between them are under analyzed, Pierre Bourdieu’s and Michel Foucault’s theories of culture and power are interrelated in some compelling ways. Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977) and …

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Whitney Arnold, The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth, and the Interview as Genre, Criticism, Volume 54, Number 4, Fall 2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crt.2012.0029 Extract My relationship to my book on Roussel, and to Roussel’s work, is something very personal. . . . I would go so far as to say that it doesn’t have …

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Seungho Moon, Disciplinary Images of “Korean-Ness”: Autobiographical Interrogations on the Panopticon, SAGE Open, July-September 2012 vol. 2 no. 3 https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012455649 Abstract The purpose of this study is to generate complicated conversations about identity and culture with an examination of various panoptic technologies, including separation, invisibility, control, and productivity. Drawn from Foucault’s panopticism, the author examines …

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Sardinha, Diogo (2012). “Le Kant de Foucault, une lecture téléologique de l’anthropologie”. Kant-Studien , 103 (3), pp. 361-9. further info Abstract: Foucault’s main thesis in his Introduction to Kant’s Anthropology is that the meaning of Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View can only be entirely grasped in the light of certain notes concerning the …

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Deslandes, Ghislain (10/2012). “The care-of-self ethic with continual reference to Socrates: towards ethical self-management”. Business ethics, 21 (4), pp. 325-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12003 Abstract ‘Have you ever taken sufficient care of yourselves?’ By asking the elite Athenian youth this question, Socrates implies that the liberation of self and the capacity to govern are inseparable. Drawing on the …

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Special Issue: Future Foucault: Afterlives of Bodies and Pleasures, South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 111, Number 3, Summer 2012 Jacques Khalip, Special Issue Editor Further info Jacques Khalip, Introduction: Voir venir Abstract It has been more than twenty-five years since the death of Michel Foucault, one of the last century’s most crucial philosophers, as well as …

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materiali foucaultiani Volume I, number 2 (July-December 2012) ISSN 2239-5962 See site for full texts of articles TABLE OF CONTENTS Un’immagine ci teneva prigionieri  (pp. 3-9) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Genealogie della razza e dei razzismi Introduzione  (pp. 11-18) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Una lettura coloniale di …

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Call for Papers: Architecture and Culture, vol. 1, issue 1/2 Architecture and Culture, the new international, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. The inaugural double issue of the journal is entitled Discipline and Dissidence. Our aim is …

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Paul Rabinow, How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault, The Pluralist, Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2012, pp. 25-37 https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.7.3.0025 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The problem reduced to its lowest terms is whether inquiry can develop in its own ongoing course the logical standards and …

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Gary P. Radford; Marie L. Radford; Jessica Lingel, Alternative libraries as discursive formations: Reclaiming the voice of the deaccessioned book, Journal of Documentation, Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 254-267 https://doi.org/10.1108/00220411211209221 Abstract Purpose: Deaccessioning, the deliberate culling, disposing, or selling of books from a collection, is one of the most controversial aspects of the …

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