Foucault News

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

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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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 …

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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 …

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