Foucault News

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

Georg Winkel, ‘Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis’, Forest Policy and Economics Volume 16, March 2012, Pages 81–92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.009 Abstract In this paper, a review is conducted on the use of the concepts of Michel Foucault in forest policy analysis. In doing so, three major …

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Johanna Oksala, ‘Sexual Experience: Foucault, Phenomenology, and Feminist Theory’, Hypatia, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2011 , pp. 207-223(17) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01153.x Abstract: This paper explicates Foucault’s conception of experience and defends it as an important theoretical resource for feminist theory. It analyzes Linda Alcoff’s devastating critique of Foucault’s account of sexuality and her reasons for advocating …

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Katharine Daneski and Paul Higgs ‘How far can Foucault take us? An analysis of the changing discourses and limitations of the medical treatment of apoplexy and stroke’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, December 15, 2010 Full text of article Abstract This article examines the conditions under which …

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Claire Blencowe ‘Foucault’s and Arendt’s ‘insider view’ of biopolitics: a critique of Agamben’, History of the Human Sciences, December 2010 vol. 23 no. 5 113-130 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110375762 Abstract This article revisits Arendt’s and Foucault’s converging accounts of modern (bio)politics and the entry of biological life into politics. Agamben’s influential account of these ideas is rejected as …

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Lynne Huffer and Elizabeth Wilson ‘Mad for Foucault: A Conversation’, Theory, Culture & Society January 4, 2011 vol. 27 no. 7-8 324-338. Abstract This two-part article summarizes the major arguments of Lynne Huffer’s 2010 book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. The second part of the piece is a dialogue between Huffer …

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MATERIALI FOUCAULTIANI – CALL FOR PAPERS italiano Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il secondo call for papers per la rivista online « mf / materiali foucaultiani » : Razze e razzismi: approcci foucaultiani La rivista online mf/materiali foucaultiani intende dedicare il suo secondo numero all’articolazione di razza e razzismo che emerge dalle opere di Michel …

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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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