Machado, R. Foucault, philosophy, and literature, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 March 2012, Pages 227-234 https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2012.668814 Abstract This article focuses on Foucault’s archeological books: Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things. It addresses two issues in particular: first, Foucault’s criticism of modern philosophical and …
Newswander, Chad B. (2011). “Foucauldian Power and Schmittian Politics: The Craft of Constitution”. Administration & society, 43 (5), p. 537-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399711412735 Abstract A political pattern of power focused on defining enemies of the state permits administrative agencies to be grounded in framework that allows them to create meaning. In an effort to better understand how …
Sassatelli, Roberta. (2011). “Interview with Laura Mulvey: Gender, Gaze and Technology in Film Culture”. Theory, culture & society (0263-2764), 28 (5), pp. 123-43. Further details Abstract This conversation between Laura Mulvey and Roberta Sassatelli offers a historical reconstruction of Mulvey’s work, from her famous essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ to her most recent reflections …
Farquhar, Sandy and Fitzsimons, Peter (2011). “Lost in Translation: The power of language”. Educational philosophy and theory, 43 (6), p. 652-662. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00608.x Abstract The paper examines some philosophical aspects of translation as a metaphor for education-a metaphor that avoids the closure of final definitions, in favour of an ongoing and tentative process of interpretation …
Barder, A. D., & Debrix, F. (2011). Agonal sovereignty: Rethinking war and politics with Schmitt, Arendt and Foucault. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 37(7), 775-793. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453711410030 Abstract The notion of biopolitical sovereignty and the theory of the state of exception are perspectives derived from Carl Schmitt’s thought and Michel Foucault’s writings that have been popularized by …
Dent, C. (2011). “‘Gray, meticulous and patently documentary’: Foucaultian historical methods and the patent system”. Journal of sociology , 47 (3), p. 297-312. doi: 10.1177/1440783311407944 Abstract Patents are seen as a key part of the modern economy and operate as a mode of regulation of technology and innovation. The histories of the system, to date, …
Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A. (2011). Organizations as Discursive Constructions: A Foucauldian Approach. Organization Studies, 32(9), 1247-1271. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840611411395 Abstract A growing body of literature suggests that communication constitutes organizations, but this argument requires refinement to address its remaining flaws. This essay suggests the tremendous potential of using Michel Foucault’s work to grasp the underlying meaning of this argument …
Tarver, E.C. (2011), New Forms of Subjectivity: Theorizing the Relational Self with Foucault and Alcoff. Hypatia, 26: 804-825. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01235.x Abstract Taking seriously Linda Martin Alcoff’s suggestion that we reevaluate the extent to which poststructuralist articulations of the subject are truly socially constituted, as well as the centrality of Latina identity to her own account of …
Evans, Patrick. (2011). “Modernity and the Holocaust counter-memorial: Janet Frame’s American fiction”. Journal of Commonwealth literature (0021-9894), 46 (3), p. 513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989411409800 Abstract Janet Frame’s novels Intensive Care (1970/1987), Daughter Buffalo (1972), and Living in the Maniototo (1979) were written in the United States and, like her final novel, The Carpathians (1988), in part set …
Beyes, T., & Michels, C. (2011). The production of educational space: Heterotopia and the business university. Management Learning, 42(5), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507611400001 Abstract: This article responds to recent calls for rethinking management education and fostering a spatial understanding of educational practices. We propose to introduce Foucault’s notion of heterotopic space and the spatial thought of Lefebvre …
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