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

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Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki Issue 14 also includes: A previously unpublished interview with Michel Foucault from 1978 three original articles, eight book reviews and a response to an article previously published in …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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Graham, Helen (2012). “Scaling governmentality: Museums, co-production and re-calibrations of the ‘logic of culture’”. Cultural studies, 26 (4), pp. 565-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.679285 Abstract This article explores contemporary uses of museum co-production for public policy through a sustained theoretical engagement with Tony Bennett’s work on museums as an ‘object of government’. The specific focus is a theoretical …

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Esposito, R. The dispositif of the person, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 17-30 https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872111403104 Abstract In this essay one of Italy’s leading philosophers examines the category of person from legal, historical, and biopolitical perspectives. Reading texts ranging from Roman law to Christian theology to bioethics, Esposito shows how …

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Street, A.A , Coleman, S.B. Introduction: Real and imagined spaces, Space and Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 4-17 https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331211421852 Abstract The hospital’s ambiguous relationship to everyday social space has long been a central theme of hospital ethnography. Often, hospitals are presented either as isolated “islands” defined by biomedical regulation of space (and …

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Biebricher, Thomas & Frieder Vogelmann, Governmentality and State Theory: Reinventing the Reinvented Wheel?, Theory & Event, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2012 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/484422 Abstract In this paper we pose the question what constitutes the originality of governmentality as a state analytical framework by confronting it with alternative contemporary approaches in state theory, suggesting that the latter …

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