Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault en América Latina: 40 años de ontologías del presente Llamado a publicación  Vol. 7 No. 131 (2024) (abierto) Editores invitados: Nelson F. Roberto-Alba, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia) Luis F. Blengino, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina) Michel Foucault se ha constituido en uno de los filósofos más influyentes del …

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Foucault Studies, Number 34, August 2023 Open access Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Articles Sustaining Significance of Confessional Form: Taking Foucault to Attitudinal Research Krystof Dolezal Ungovernable Counter-Conduct: Ivan Illich’s Critique of Governmentality Tim Christiaens Book Reviews Mark Coeckelbergh, Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Columbia University Press, …

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Ansgar Allen, Barthes, anti-intellectualism, and the academy, Ephemera. Theory & Politics in Organization, 2023 Open access Abstract In this paper the UK university system is conceptualised as an institutional space that has been transformed to become a resolute, functional haven of anti-intellectualism. This argument is qualified by adopting an understanding of intellectual work that is …

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Walsh, J., Ferazzoli, M.T. The Colonised Self: The Politics of UK Asylum Practices, and the Embodiment of Colonial Power in Lived Experience (2023) Social Sciences, 12 (7) DOI: 10.3390/socsci12070382 Abstract This paper draws on empirical data generated in the ‘Everyday Bordering in the UK’ project, with a focus on the experiences of people seeking asylum …

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Scientia Sexualis and Historiography of Sexuality Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will receive proposals for articles that seek to reflect on Scientia Sexualis for the issue of June 2024. Sexual science began at the end of the 19th century with the ambitious undertaking of physicians such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfeld, who set …

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Rob Horning, From work to text, and back again: ChatGPT and the (new) death of the author, Overland, 23 February 2023 When he declared the death of the author, in 1968, Roland Barthes was attacking the idea that our understanding of any particular text should be conditioned or constrained by the person who happened to …

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Sinn, M.-C. Theorizing on Engaging in Identity Work from Spiritual Formation to Vocation Discernment: Narratives of a Hong Kong Chinese (Prospective) Seminarian (2023) International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 13 (2), pp. 159-187. DOI: 10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v13i02/159-187 Abstract While research efforts have been devoted largely to priestly identity in the priesthood, it is surprising that …

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Anfinson, K. Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition (2023) American Political Science Review, 117 (3), pp. 927-939. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422001034 Abstract The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s …

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Sfara, E. From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 45, 16 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00573-8 Abstract Many historical studies tend to underline two central Kantian themes frequently emerging in Georges Canguilhem’s works: (1) a conception of activity, primarily stemming from the Critique of …

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Foeken, E. (2023). Embodied, caring and disciplinary: A Foucauldian reading of ‘process time’ as constitutive of the biopolitical institution of the family. Time & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X231176434 ‘Process time’ describes the recursive/fluid, social and embodied temporality that characterises much ‘women’s work’. Though this concept has proven highly useful to feminist analyses of caring and other feminised …

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