Foucault News

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

Fazilleau, K. L’Indien atemporel d’Edward S. Curtis et le mythe de la race en voie de disparition (2023) Etudes Anglaises, 76 (2), pp. 157-179. DOI: 10.3917/etan.762.0157 Abstract This article aims at highlighting the dynamic link between the photographs of Native Americans taken by Edward S. Curtis between 1898 and 1927, published in his work The …

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Leonard D’Cruz, Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method, Philosophy & Social Criticism, March 16, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241235571 Abstract: This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thus collapsing into …

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Baxter, K.I. Cecily Shoots a Rhinoceros: Big Game Hunting in British Somaliland and the 1900 Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa (2023) Law and Literature DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2023.2289771 Abstract In 1900, seven European nations gathered in London to agree the Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish …

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Bright, D., McKay, A., Firth, K. How to be reflexive: Foucault, ethics and writing qualitative research as a technology of the self (2023) International Journal of Research and Method in Education DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2023.2290185 Abstract This paper explores reflexivity in qualitative research, challenging conventional perspectives that revolve around the binary of ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ positioning. While …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Marrying the Sources and Mechanisms of Power? Understanding the Quarantine Hotel through Michel Foucault and Michael Mann.” Journal of Political Power, (2024), 1–20. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2024.2337617 ABSTRACT Using the Norwegian quarantine hotel as a case, I analyse the narratives of 46 ‘guests’, so to explore this biopolitical device, which for biopolitical objectives enables …

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Joinau, B. Cultural Governance and New Forms of Governmentality Focus on the South Korean Case (2023) Journal of Arts Management Law and Society DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2023.2280646 Abstract The paper discusses the reasons behind the dominance of governance in contemporary societies. The techniques of government cannot be understood apart from a critical genealogy of governmentality. This article …

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Yuetong, Z., Jianxing, B. The Transgressive Individual in Foucault’s Rights-Punishment Theory – A Record of Self-Resistant Subjectivity in China (2023) Deviant Behavior DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2291048 Abstract Foucault’s philosophical theories and sociological boundaries are not mutually exclusive, and his idea of “micro-power” breaks through the traditional sociological perspective of power studies to reveal a set of hidden …

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Lovell, J. The Panaural People’s Republic: Loudness, Loss of Self, and Sonic Social Control in Mao’s China (2023) Annali di Ca Foscari Serie Orientale, 59, pp. 43-70. DOI: 10.30687/ANNOR/2385-3042/2023/02/002 Abstract Perspectives on the establishment of social control have long been shaped by theories concerning visibility and observation, such as Foucault’s concept of the Panopticon. In …

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Coppola, A. « Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique (2023) Modern and Contemporary France, DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2023.2269396 Abstract Leos Carax’s film ‘Annette’, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, left no one indifferent: something important was being said about cinema and, in particular, about French cinema. The thread running through our analysis of …

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Emanuel, T. “It Is ‘About’ Nothing But Itself”: Tolkienian Theology Beyond the Domination of the Author (2023) Mythlore, 42 (1), pp. 29-53. Abstract There is a broad stream of Christian interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction, especially The Lord of the Rings, which views it as the intentionally, essentially Christian work of an intentionally, essentially Christian …

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