Foucault News

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

Matthew Bannister, ‘“I’m Set Free…”: The Velvet Underground, 1960s Counterculture, and Michel Foucault’, Popular Music and Society, Volume 33, Issue 2 May 2010 , pages 163 – 178 https://doi.org/10.1080/03007760903142889 Abstract This article explores concepts of freedom, repression, and sexuality in Western society and popular music, in relation to selected aspects of Michel Foucault’s writing and …

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Corey McCall, The Art of Life: Foucault’s Reading of Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Modern Life”, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 2, 2010, pp. 138-157 https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.24.2.0138 In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. In his essay “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault compares the role of modernity in the work …

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Megan Warin, ‘Foucault’s progeny: Jamie Oliver and the art of governing obesity’, Social Theory & Health, (1 December 2010) https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2010.2 Abstract Jamie Oliver is an English celebrity chef who has publicly politicised the relationships between class and food in Britain. No longer a simple chef, Oliver is presented as an evangelical saint, salvation of British …

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Foucault and St Paul. Special Issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 11.1 Winter 2010 The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with the phenomenon of religious and cultural theory. Visit the journal’s website for …

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McKinlay, Alan; Carter, Chris; Pezet, Eric; Clegg, Stewart, ‘Using Foucault to make strategy’, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 23, Number 8, 2010 , pp. 1012-1031(20) https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/09513571011092538/full/html Abstract Purpose The premise of the paper is that Foucault’s concept of governmentality has important but unacknowledged implications for understanding strategy. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the …

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Johanna Oksala, ‘Foucault’s politicization of ontology’, Continental Philosophy Review, published online 8 October 2010 Download pdf from this page Abstract The paper explicates a politicized conception of reality with the help of Michel Foucault’s critical project. I contend that Foucault’s genealogies of power problematize the relationship between ontology and politics. His idea of productive power …

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Paul Patton, ‘Activism, Philosophy and Actuality in Deleuze and Foucault’ Deleuze Studies, Dec 2010, Vol. 4, No. supplement : pp. 84-103 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45331436 Abstract Deleuze and Foucault shared a period of political activism and both drew connections between their activism and their respective approaches to philosophy. However, despite their shared political commitments and praise of each …

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Sciullo, Nick J., Amos Lee’s ‘Street Corner Preacher’ Through Michel Foucault’s Critique of Scientific Knowledge: A Critique of Legal Knowledge (March 15, 2011). Critical Legal Studies Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1685997 Abstract This article will demonstrate that although students of the law, legal scholars, and practitioners rely on a relatively …

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Paul Smeyers and Yusef Waghid, ‘Cosmopolitanism in Relation to the Self and the Other: From Michel Foucault to Stanley Cavell’, Educational Theory, Volume 60 Number 4 2010, pp. 449-467 Download pdf of article Abstract Educators, not to mention philosophers of education, find themselves in a difficult position nowadays. They are confronted with problems such as …

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