Boland, T., Moore-Ponce, J. Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses (2023) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310231179150 Abstract Confessional critiques proliferate in contemporary culture, remodelling critical politics as self-purification. Within Foucault’s work, critique is associated with resistance to power and subjectification, whereas confession appears a technique of disciplinary and pastoral power. …