Foucault News

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

Cabrera, J.C.M. This is not a pipe Iconicity in Magritte’s language paintings (2022) Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18, pp. 193-211. DOI: 10.1075/ill.18.10cab Abstract A significant part of René Magritte’s pictorial work is devoted to the challenging relationships between images and written words. In this paper, I will look into two series of Magritte’s language …

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Judy, R.S. Vorticist Confucianism: Ezra Pound’s translation practice in Confucius as modernist self-fashioning (2022) Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 9 (2), pp. 134-150. DOI: 10.1080/23306343.2022.2123189 Abstract This article argues that Ezra Pound’s Confucius, which brings together his translations of three classics of Confucian philosophy (The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and the …

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Kurtuluş, G. & İnci, M. (2023). NEOLİBERALİZMİN BORÇLU İNSANINA DAİR ELEŞTİREL BİR ÇÖZÜMLEMENİN ÇÖZÜMLEMESİ: SQUID GAME, Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 44 (2) , 303-315 . Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/muiibd/issue/74273/1225246 Abstract Neoliberal politikalardan hareketle, finansın artan rolü ve borçlu bireyin normalleştirilmesi üzerine tartışmalar devam etmektedir. Bununla birlikte, neoliberalizmin inşası üzerine yapılan eleştirel çalışmalar artık …

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Strausz, Erzsébet (2022) Writing with Foucault: openings to transformational knowledge practices in and beyond the classroom, Critical Studies on Security DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2022.2134698 ABSTRACT This article engages questions of authority and authorship in the discipline and the IR classroom, driven by a search for affirmative horizons within critical scholarship and academic practice. Prompted by a series …

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Adamiak, M. Being otherwise: On the possibility of a non-dualistic approach in feminist phenomenology (2022) Technoetic Arts, 20 (1-2), pp. 11-25. DOI: 10.1386/tear_00078_1 Abstract This article reflects on the current philosophical tendency to construct non-dualistic subjectivity models in response to the criticism of the traditional authoritarian human subject. Following thinkers such as Emmanuel Lévinas, Michel …

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Herman Westerink (2020) The obligation to truth and the care of the self: Michel Foucault on scientific discipline and on philosophy as spiritual self-practice, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 81:3, 246-259, DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2020.1749871 ABSTRACT It has often been argued that Foucault’s turn to antique and early Christian care of the self, spiritual self-.practices and …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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. …

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