Siniša Malešević (2022) Are We All Foucauldians Now? “Culture Wars” and the Poststructuralist Legacy, Critical Review DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2122171 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault’s philosophy has recently come under sharp criticism across the political spectrum. While right-wing and centrist commentators identify Foucault as the intellectual progenitor of “woke” dogmatism and an irrationalist hostility to science, left-wing critics associate …
GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE Special Issue, Vol 4 Issue 1, 2018. Articles in German The collection “Foucault meets Latour,” edited by Simon Ganahl and Patrick Kilian, attempts to confront but also connect the thought of Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour. Equally interested in the question of modernity, both thinkers developed theoretical frameworks and conceptual toolboxes in order to …
Foucault Studies. Number 32, September 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe Articles Foucault and Brown: Disciplinary Intersections Niki Kasumi Clements Askesis and Critique: Foucault and Benjamin Ori Rotlevy UK Lockdown Governmentalities: What Does It Mean to Govern in 2020? Seb Sander Book Reviews Chloë Taylor, Foucault, Feminism and Sex Crimes: An Anti-Carceral Analysis. New York, and London: …
Ilott, Luke. “Generalizing Resistance: The Coalition Politics of Foucault’s Governmentality Lectures.” The Review of Politics, 2022, 1–25. doi:10.1017/S0034670522000882. Abstract This article interprets Michel Foucault as a thinker of political coalition. While Foucault is often associated with a localist “micro-politics,” he also sought to help dispersed struggles “generalize” themselves into bigger, cohesive movements. Foucault gave his …
Strassheim, J. (2022). Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model. Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221119726 Abstract Contrary to widespread assumptions, post-truth politicians formally adopt a rhetoric of ‘truth’ but turn it against established experts. To explain one central factor behind this destructive strategy and its success with voters, I consider Walter Lippmann and Friedrich …
Gordon Hull (2022) How Foucault Got Rid of (Bossy) Marxism, Critical Review, DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2121516 ABSTRACT Foucault distanced himself from Marxism even though he worked in an environment—left French theory of the 1960s and 1970s—where Marxism was the dominant frame of reference. By viewing Foucault in the context of French Marxist theoretical debates of his day, …
Lemke, T. (2022). Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality. Theory, Culture & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113737 Abstract The article focuses on the ability of some animals and plants to respond to changing environmental conditions by temporarily suspending metabolic processes. In contemporary biology, this state between life and death is commonly labelled ‘cryptobiosis’, combining the Greek kryptos …
Francesca Peruzzo and Aaron Kuntz are calling for abstracts for a special issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education titled: Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Higher Education: New approaches, theories, and conditions of possibility. The idea behind this special issue is to expand Foucault’s analytical toolbox, intersecting new epistemological and analytical approaches to explore …
Jackson, B. Putting Neoliberalism in Its Place (2022) Modern Intellectual History, 19 (3), pp. 982-995. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244321000032 Abstract Neoliberalism is an ideal subject for intellectual historians. It is an ideological movement that has been both theoretically sophisticated and influential, ensuring that excursions along the highways and byways of neoliberal thought can always be justified practically, …
Maynard, Steven. “Queer Parrhesiast.” PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas, 65 (2022): 120-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/public_00097_1 Abstract Drawing on and contextualizing the papers of Alexander Wilson (1953-1993), a Toronto-based writer, activist, and horticulturalist, this article explores the reciprocal relationship between Wilson’s intellectual and political work. It focuses on Wilson’s involvement with The Body Politic during the late 1970s and early …
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