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

He, X. Juxtaposition of English and Japanese native-speakerism: through the concept of the international university being a heterotopia (2024) Asian Englishes DOI: 10.1080/13488678.2024.2350085 Abstract Research on the native-speakerism ideology of different languages has demonstrated the unbalanced power relation created between those who are labeled as native speaker (NS) and as non-native speaker (NNS). While the …

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Ximenez, A. What is wrong with urban regeneration practices? Towards a Foucauldian analysis of urban regeneration documents. (2024) Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, 2024 (24), . DOI: 10.4000/articulo.5650 Abstract Urban design practices are hard to analyse and critique. In this paper, we suggest that part of the difficulty can be alleviated if one problematises …

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Krylova, A. Foucault, Post-structuralism, and the Fixed “Openness of History” (2024) Modern Intellectual History DOI: 10.1017/S1479244324000088 Abstract Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians’ encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts …

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Loriane Lafont-Grave, The Mystical Quality of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh: An Inquiry from Within, The Journal of Religion 2024 104:2, 145-170 Abstract This article offers an investigation of Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh—published in 2018, thirty-four years after the death of the author—through a literary approach. It argues that “The Laborious Baptism,” the second …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Biopolitical Leviathan: Understanding State Power in the Era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the State”, Theoria 71, 178 (2024): 48-74, https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2024.7117803 Abstract The coronavirus pandemic made the biopolitics of infection control the core object of states around the world. Globally, states governed spheres usually free of state control, implementing …

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Bannikov, K.V., Radina, N.K. Biopolitical media discourse in France in the COVID-19 pandemics (2023) RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 28 (3), pp. 553-565. DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-3-553-565 Abstract The publication activities of the French media during the COVID-19 pandemic in a biopolitical way are analyzed. The theoretical frame of the study is set by …

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Hofmeyr, A.B. A critical consideration of Foucault’s conceptualisation of morality (2024) Verbum et Ecclesia, 45 (1), art. no. a2830, . DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2830 Abstract The background of this research is the status and significance of an ethics of care of the self in the history of morality. I followed the following methodology: I attempted to come …

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Carlo, Andrea di. “The Problem of Toleration: Tacitus, Foucault and Governmentality.” History of European Ideas, (2024), 1–16. doi:10.1080/01916599.2024.2346031 ABSTRACT This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne’s and Bayle’s comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example of governmentality, a strategy to govern a …

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Leonard, M. The Power of Oedipus: Michel Foucault with Hannah Arendt (2023) Arethusa, 56 (3), pp. 393-412. DOI: 10.1353/are.2023.a917343 Abstract It has become increasingly common to draw connections between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt: there are strong continuities between their respective theories of power, and Foucault and Arendt share an account of modernity and of …

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Stypinska, D. Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification (2024) Theory, Culture and Society, . DOI: 10.1177/02632764231216896 Abstract Taking its cue from Michel Foucault’s analyses of the pastoral ‘conduct of conduct’, this paper considers social media as a specific dispositif that derives its mode of operation from the religious techniques of individualization. It argues that today’s …

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