Clifton, J., Jacobs, G., Valeiras-Jurado, J., Vandendaele, A. Governmentality-in-action The pursuit of happiness and identity-work in graduate career coaching interaction (2022) Language and Dialogue, 12 (3), pp. 335-359. DOI: 10.1075/ld.00117.cli Abstract Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work provides an account of how governmentality is enacted as social …
Jubas, K. More than a Confessional Mo(ve)ment? #MeToo’s Pedagogical Tensions (2022) Adult Education Quarterly DOI: 10.1177/07417136221134782 Abstract In this article, I explore the pedagogical function of #MeToo, highlighting what it might teach about gender-based mistreatment and mainstreamed feminism. I begin by reviewing linkages between adult education and social movements, then trace the development of #MeToo, …
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 …
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