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

Wallrup, E. On patheme: affective shifts and Gustavian culture (2023) Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 15 (1) DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2023.2209945 Abstract Despite the attention that the affective sphere has reached in the last decades, affectivity has generally been supposed to be a consequence of historical processes, not changing their direction. This article argues instead that affectivity …

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Rust, J.R. Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’s Utopia (2023) Textual Practice DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2205708 Abstract Discourses of health and disease pervade More’s Utopia. The text insistently plays upon the ambiguities of salus, a term with a wide semantic range including spiritual salvation, the physical health of the individual body, and the …

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Heylen, K.B. Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code (2023) New Media and Society DOI: 10.1177/14614448231166057 Abstract Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code requires Google and Facebook to negotiate payments with news publishers for news content appearing on the platforms. Facebook and Google lobbied against the code through …

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Ashley, L., Perron, A. Examining the role of nurse executives in homecare through the lens of the Sociology of Ignorance and Critical Management Studies (2023) Nursing Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/nup.12445 Abstract This article presents a novel theoretical approach to explore nurse executives’ paradoxical identity and agency of executive and nurse in homecare organizations. This complex phenomenon …

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Harrahill, K., Macken-Walsh, Á., O’Neill, E. Prospects for the bioeconomy in achieving a Just Transition: perspectives from Irish beef farmers on future pathways (2023) Journal of Rural Studies, 100 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103020 Abstract Many beef farm systems in Irish and some global contexts have economic and environmental traits that threaten their future sustainability. In this context, …

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Giovana Carmo Temple, O acontecimento como uma saída à verdade da prática discursiva, Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo Neste artigo, desenvolvo uma reflexão da noção de acontecimento nos textos de Foucault, particularmente nos livros L’archéologie du savoir (1969) e L’ordre du discours (1971). O objetivo é mostrar como Foucault retoma …

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Marcio Luiz Miotto, Michel Foucault e “A questão antropológica” – precisões históricas e conceituais Lampião Revista de Filosofia, v.3, n.1, 2022, Publicado: 01/06/2023 Resumo O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer algumas precisões históricas e conceituas em torno da formação da história arqueológica de Michel Foucault, tendo como foco um livro póstumo e recém lançado, intitulado La …

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Carol Bacchi, Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible, Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.2, No.1, 2012 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2012.21001 Open access Abstract This paper introduces the theoretical concept, problematization, as it is developed in Foucauldian-inspired poststructural analysis. The objective is two-fold: first, to show how a study of problematizations politicizes taken-for-granted “truths”; and second, to illustrate …

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Moon, K., Cho, H.D. Biopolitics and a right to tourism (2023) Current Issues in Tourism DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2203852 Abstract Tourism as a right was officially stated in the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (1999) and it would be granted normative status once the Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics (2020) is legally binding. As such, the …

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Paolucci, C. Pre‐Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions” (2023) Media and Communication, 11 (2), pp. 101-108. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6628 Abstract In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre‐Truth (as opposed to post‐truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are …

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