Foucault News

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

Blattner, P. Das wahre Ich. Sexualität und Imperativ der Identität. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-024-00190-5 Open access Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die Verflechtung von der Frage nach der Sexualität und der Frage nach dem wahren Selbst. Durch die eigene Sexualität entdeckt und offenbart sich das Individuum vor sich selbst und anderen. Im Anschluss …

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Mycoaesthetics Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon Critical Inquiry 2024 50:4, 703-724 DOI: 10.1086/730345#xref_fn37 Abstract This article analyzes the recent growth of popular interest in fungi across commerce, design, wellness, fiction, and film. Focusing on the ways that fungi are said to take the form of distributed networks, we argue that it is primarily through aesthetics …

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Steven G. Ogden, Problematising Theism: Miguel Vatter, An-Arche, and Its Implications, Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXVI, 2024, 2, pp. 279-293 ABSTRACT This essay addresses the complexity of the politics-religion nexus. I use the work of Miguel Vatter as my primary source as well as concepts from Michel Foucault’s conceptual toolbox. Specifically, the …

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Torres Apablaza, Iván (2024). Ejercicios de caligrafía filosófica: Michel Foucault y la crítica al humanismo en su lectura temprana de Nietzsche y Heidegger. El Banquete de los Dioses. Revista de Filosofía y teoría Política Contemporáneas. 14 (1), pp. 10-37 https://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/ebdld/article/view/9534 “Philosophical Calligraphy Exercises: Michel Foucault and the Critique of Humanism in his early Reading of …

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de la Rosa, T., Berrocoso, E., Scorza, F.A. Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration (2024) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1007/s11013-024-09855-7 Abstract Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent increase in their prevalence. Characterized as progressive, chronic and debilitating, they often result …

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Guizzo, D. Ceremonial Economics: A Social-Institutional Analysis of Universities, Disciplines, and Academic Positioning (2024) Journal of Economic Issues, 58 (2), pp. 397-423. DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2024.2343246 Abstract What is the future of the university? Many have attempted to unpack what emerging technologies, political pressures, and social scrutiny can do to the status and innovative capacity of universities. …

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Kabalay, B. (2024). Fail-Yapı İlişkisine Yersizleştirme Üzerinden Bir Müdahale: Foucault’nun İktidar Analizi Örneği. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 22(2), 329-347. https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.1467977 ÖZET Bu çalışma fail ve yapı arasındaki ilişkinin ontolojik bir hiyerarşiye referans veren yer metaforuna bağlanarak açıklanmasını eleştirmektedir. Çünkü bu ontolojik düzlemde, yerde mevcudiyeti bulunan şey diğer nesneyi ikincil bir fenomen haline …

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PHILOSOPHY TODAY An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy Call for Papers Special Issue: Foucault’s Concept of Experience Special issue editors Vilde Lid Aavitsland (University of Louisville) Leonhard Riep (Goethe University Frankfurt) PDF of call for papers Experience is a key concept in Foucault’s work, yet its centrality has long been overlooked. In many of his …

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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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