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

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The Power of Architecture – photomontage by the author (2012) Recently, I was lucky enough to be asked to write an article for the seventh issue of the Chilean journal SPAM and I decided to use this opportunity to articulate the clumsy addition of ideas that I started to touch…

Brett Neilson, Ageing, Experience, Biopolitics: Life’s Unfolding, Body and Society, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, September 2012, Pages 44-71 https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X12446377 Abstract In the wake of Foucault, the debate on biopolitics has focused on the tensions of bíos and zoé, community and immunity, generation and thanatopolitics. What remains obscure in these accounts is the experiential aspect of …

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Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction: Parliamentary enclosure and spatial rationalities in the transition from feudalism to capitalism, Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 209-219 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.02.002 Abstract Recent applications of Foucauldian categories in geography, spatial history and the history of town planning have opened up interesting new …

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Gordon Tait, Clare O’Farrell, Sarah Davey Chesters, Joanne Brownlee, Rebecca Spooner-Lane, “Are There Any Right or Wrong Answers in Teaching Philosophy?: Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophy in the Classroom” Teaching Philosophy, 35 (4), pp.367-381 https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil201235442 Abstract This article assesses undergraduate teaching students’ assertion that there are no right and wrong answers in teaching philosophy. When asked …

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Ben Anderson, Affect and biopower: Towards a politics of life, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 28-43 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00441.x Abstract In this paper I stage an encounter between two concepts that have become popular placeholders for a broad concern with a politics of life: affect and biopower. Through …

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McKinlay, A.A , Carter, C.B, Pezet, E.C. Governmentality, power and organization (Editorial), Management and Organizational History, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 3-15 https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935911429414 Abstract Michel Foucault has moved from being marginal to organization studies to perhaps the most important authority in critical management studies. Yet his methods, historiography and the theoretical value of …

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“L’homme après sa mort, Kant après Foucault” Special Issue of Rue Descartes Rue Descartes 2012/3 (n° 75). 128 pages. ISSN : 1144-0821 ISSN en ligne : 2102-5819. Lien : http://www.cairn.info/revue-rue-descartes-2012-3.htm. Sommaire Horizons De livres considérés à tort comme mineurs Diogo Sardinha Corpus Michel Foucault, philosophe de la liberté ? Sur sa lecture de Kant dans …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 14 A Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki Issue 14 also includes: A previously unpublished interview with Michel Foucault from 1978 three original articles, eight book reviews and a response to an article previously published in …

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Richard Jackson, Unknown knowns: The subjugated knowledge of terrorism studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 11-29 https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2012.659907 Abstract This article employs Foucault’s concept of ‘subjugated knowledges’ to explore forms of knowledge which provide explanations of the nature, causes and solutions to terrorism and political violence, but which have been …

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Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica, n. 66 maggio-agosto 2012 One of the most important philosophical journals in Italy, Iride has published its 66th issue which is largely devoted to Michel Foucault. Pdf of table of contents Abstracts in English are below Nota introduttiva. Sesso come cultura di Arnold I. Davidson Michel Foucault, L’arte di divenire gay …

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