Emanuele IULA, “La crisi della parresia. Il problema delle eredità difficili in una prospettiva foucaultiana”, Ho theológos, 2022 (1), pp. 73-92). Abstract in English The article aims to offer a deconstruction of the foucauldian notion of parresia. The problem of sexual abuse in the Church and the ecological crisis create an attitude of mistrust vis-à-vis …
Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias, Humanities (2022) Kohlke, Marie-Luise, Elizabeth Ho, and Akira Suwa. 2022. “Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias” Humanities 11, no. 1: 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010008 Wadoux, Charlotte. 2022. ““The World Had Forgotten about Us”: Heterotopian Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip” Humanities 11, no. …
Hofmeyr, B. Knowledge work in the age of control: capitalising on human capital (2022) Acta Academica, 54 (1), pp. 40-68. DOI: 10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/3 Abstract The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this article is that power in the form of control is exerted in a more insidious manner now that knowledge work has become …
Villadsen, K. Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs (2022) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310221125350 Abstract A steady stream of commentary criticizes Foucault’s ‘agentless position’ for its inability to observe, much less theorize, the ways in which human actors manoeuvre, negotiate, transform or resist the structures within which they are …
Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh Herman Westerink Philosophy From …
Michael C. Behrent (2022) A Case for the Young Foucault, Critical Review, DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2152253 ABSTRACT Between 1949 and 1961 (or, arguably, 1966), three interconnected dimensions of Foucault’s early thought emerged. First, the young Foucault offered a Hegelian perspective on Kant’s notion of the transcendental. The a priori conditions of thought, Foucault suggested, both shape and …
Piasentier, M. Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science (2022) Philosophy and Social Criticism DOI: 10.1177/01914537221131944 Abstract Foucault and Sellars are representatives of conflicting philosophical traditions: whereas Foucault famously insisted that “power is everywhere,” Sellars proposed the well-known scientia mensura dictum. The tension between the two perspectives seems to be so strong that …
Friedman, A.C., Mills, J.P., Gearity, B. Natural science and culture grapple on the mat: an autoethnography of a wrestler’s rapid weight loss (2022) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2111491 Abstract Jean-Francois Lyotard’s iconic essay, The Post-modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1978) detailed the shifting nature of knowledge in post-industrial society that meant sciences had to …
Gaughwin, M. “The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects (2022) Design and Culture DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2122115 Abstract The contribution Michel Foucault’s thoughts on power, in particular his ideas of subjectivity, freedom, and action, might have to the study of design’s ontological shaping of people is an emerging field of inquiry in …
Herzog, B., Lance Porfillio, A. Talking with racists: insights from discourse and communication studies on the containment of far-right movements (2022) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1) DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01406-y Abstract The rise of the far right is threatening the antifascist consensus that helped rebuild Europe and the world following World War II. Discourse studies …
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