Foucault News

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

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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Stickney, J.A., Judging Teachers: Foucault, governance and agency during education reforms, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 44, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 649-662 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00752.x Abstract Over a decade after publication of Thinking Again: Education After Postmodernism (1998) contention still emerges among Foucaultians over whether discursively made-up things really exist, and whether removal of the constituent …

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Daniel Defert, « Je crois au temps… », Propos recueillis par Guillaume Bellon, Recto/Verso, n° 1, Juin 2007. Update August 2025: This is now only available on the Wayback machine. Link in title above Daniel Defert, qui a partagé la vie de Foucault pendant plus de vingt ans, est aujourd’hui propriétaire de l’ensemble des notes …

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Bronwyn Davies, Jane Speedy, Who was Pierre Rivière? Introduction to the special issue, Emotion, Space and Society, Available online 22 April 2012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2012.03.005 Table of contents for special issue Abstract Foucault’s (1975) edited book, I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother… A case of parricide in the 19th century, includes …

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Korvela, P.-E. Sources of governmentality: Two notes on Foucault’s lecture, History of the Human Sciences, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 73-89 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112454370 Abstract The article scrutinizes Michel Foucault’s interpretation of Machiavelli in his famous lecture on governmentality. Foucault is slightly misguided in his search for the origins of governmentality, the article asserts. Foucault …

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