Foucault News

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

Birkin, Frank and Thomas Polesie (2011). “An Epistemic Analysis of (Un)Sustainable Business”. Journal of business ethics , 103 (2), pp. 239-253 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0863-4 Abstract Michel Foucault famously analysed orders of knowledge, ‘epistemes’, in past European ages. In this study, his analytical method is fruitfully applied to gaining a better understanding of business sustainability within and beyond …

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Taylor, Chloe, Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations: Feminist and Foucauldian Reflections on Professor–Student Sex. Hypatia, 26: 187–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01143.x Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings as well as the writings of feminist scholars bell hooks and Jane Gallop, this paper examines faculty–student sexual relations and the discourses and policies that surround them. It argues that the dominant discourses …

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Foucault Across the Disciplines Guest editor: Colin Koopman History of the Human Sciences , October 2011; 24 (4) Link to abstracts and pdfs Table of Contents Colin Koopman Foucault across the disciplines: introductory notes on contingency in critical inquiry Ian Hacking Déraison Arnold I. Davidson In praise of counter-conduct Amy Allen Foucault and the politics …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 12 A Special Issue on Foucault and Race Guest Edited by Ladelle McWhorter Issue 12 also includes: A translated interview with Denys Foucault An interview with Cressida J. Heyes Three original articles related to Foucault’s writings on neoliberalism and eight book reviews Foucault Studies is …

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Sanna Karkulehto, The ‘Greatest Finn’ meets the ‘Gay Marshal’: Foucault’s cycle, national narratives and The Butterfly of the Urals, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 1, no.2, June 2011 https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.1.2.177_1 Abstract The article examines the case of the ‘Gay Marshal’, the late C.G.E. Mannerheim, president of Finland, supreme commander of Finnish military forces during World War …

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Kim Su Rasmussen, Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism, Theory, Culture & Society September 2011 vol. 28 no. 5 34-51 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411410448 Abstract This paper argues that Foucault’s genealogy of racism deserves appreciation due to the highly original concept of racism as biopolitical government. Modern racism, according to Foucault, is not merely an irrational prejudice, a form of …

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Nielsen, Cynthia R. (2011), Unearthing consonances in Foucault’s accourn of Greco-Roman self-writing and Christian technologies of the self, The Heythrop Journal, pp. 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00694.x Opening paragraphs Although his critics claim otherwise, Michel Foucault understood his work as consistently focused in one way or another on the genealogy of the subject and the construction of subjectivities.1 …

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Kevin Hetherington, Foucault, the museum and the diagram, The Sociological Review Volume 59, Issue 3, Article first published online: 1 SEP 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02016.x Abstract Foucault’s work on the museum is partial and fragmentary but provides an interesting opportunity through which to explore issues of power, subjectivity and imagination. Following a discussion of Deleuze’s reading of …

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Jörg Spieker, Foucault and Hobbes on Politics, Security, and War, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political August 2011 vol. 36 no. 3 187-199 https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375411418596 Abstract This article engages and seeks to develop Michel Foucault’s account of the nexus between modern politics, security, and war. Focusing on his 1976 lecture series Society Must Be Defended, the article considers …

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Michael Welch, Counterveillance: How Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons reversed the optics, Theoretical Criminology August 2011 vol. 15 no. 3 301-313 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610396651 Abstract The analysis herein considers the dynamics of panopticism by developing further the concept of counter-surveillance—or counterveillance—whereby prison officials rather than the prisoners become the target of unwanted attention. While …

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