Foucault News

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

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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Nicolas Gane, (2023). Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation. Theory, Culture & Society, 40(3), 63–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113727 Abstract This article addresses a little-known event in the history of neoliberalism: a conference at Stanford University held in 1982 to reconsider Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means’ The Modern Corporation and Private Property 50 years after its initial …

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Robert S. Leib, Of other histories: philosophical archaeology, historiology, and paradigmatology, Parrhesia 37 · 2023 · 91-120 Open access This article contributes to the discussion of philosophical archaeology in Foucault’s early works by reexamining its influences and recent developments using two concepts that appear in The Order of Things —a history of the Same and …

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Lorenzini, D., & Tiisala, T. (2023). The architectonic of Foucault’s critique. European Journal of Philosophy, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12877 Open access Abstract This paper presents a new interpretation of Michel Foucault’s critical project. It is well known that Foucault’s genealogical critique does not focus on issues of justification, but instead tackles “aspectival captivity,” that is, apparently …

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