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

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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Kjærgaard, A., Bergmann, R., Blasco, M., Padan, T., Elliott, C., Callahan, J., Robinson, S., Wall, T. Subtle activism: Heterotopic principles for unsettling contemporary academia from within (2023) Organization DOI: 10.1177/13505084231167702 Abstract Research on academic activism tends to foreground vociferous and explicit forms of activism that pursue predefined political agendas. Against this backdrop, this article proposes …

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Chassagnol, A., Marie, C. Le musée du futur: imaginaire du musée dans la littérature contemporaine imagée, (2023) Culture et Musees, (41), pp. 119-149. DOI: 10.4000/culturemusees.9947 Abstract This article elaborates a poetic (in the ancient Greek sense of poesis) description of the future museum on the basis of the portrayal and fictionalization of museums in contemporary …

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Beukes, J. The current four volumes of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité: a review of the state of research, 2022 (2023) Acta Academica, 55 (1), pp. 125-145. DOI: 10.38140/aa.v55i1.6493 Abstract By providing a review of the present state of research regarding French historian of ideas Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) current four-volume series Histoire de la …

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Eva Joyce, Rewilding tourism in the news: Power/knowledge and the Irish and UK news media discourses, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 104, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103718. Abstract: This study investigates how complex power relations shape the knowledge about rewilding tourism produced by the news media in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A multi-level Foucauldian …

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Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (04 Jan 2024): Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics, British Journal of Educational Studies DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776 ABSTRACT In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond …

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Lisa Borrelli and William Walters, Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (2024) https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241232325 Abstract It is hard to imagine how deportation regimes could function without the threat or the exercise of force. Yet surprisingly a focus on forces and bodies, and more generally the question …

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Colombo, Agustín. 2023. «El quiasmo no ontológico de la carne. El enfoque de la subjetividad en las investigaciones tardías de Michel Foucault y su relación con Merleau-Ponty». Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica 56, nº 2: 269-85. https://doi.org/10.5209/asem.88549 Resumen ¿De qué manera el problema de la carne permite analizar el vínculo que tiene el pensamiento …

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