Foucault News

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

Early, J. Contemporary Confessional Forms and Confessional Art (2022) Third Text DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2022.2074197 Abstract Within our twenty-first century confessional landscape, a new set of possibilities for confession has been realised which, in relation to the chronology of confessional art, expands on the political and social conditions visible in pre-millennial cultural politics. The confessional turn in …

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Ilott, Luke. “Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking.” Political Theory, (July 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221103296. Abstract Michel Foucault was an energetic activist, yet his bleak depiction of totalizing power and his refusal to make normative claims have led many to judge that Discipline and Punish (1975) did not sustain a positive political project. …

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Francesca Peruzzo, Emiliano Grimaldi, Alessandro Arienzo, Giuseppe D’Onofrio, Claudio Franchi & Pietro Sebastianelli (2022) New public management reforms and industrial relations in the Italian education system. A cultural political economy approach, Journal of Educational Administration and History DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2022.2094350 ABSTRACT This article focuses on the relation between new public management (NPM) reforms and changing patterns …

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Emmanuel Chamorro, 2022. Foucault y el neoliberalismo: análisis de una controversia. Isegoría. 66 (jul. 2022), e28. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2022.66.28. Open access RESUMEN El presente artículo analiza la controversia surgida en la última década acerca de la supuesta «fascinación» de Michel Foucault por el neoliberalismo, especialmente alrededor de las intervenciones de Daniel Zamora y Michael C. Behrent. Sus …

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Chevallier, Philippe. « Foucault avant Foucault », Archives de Philosophie, vol. 85, no. 3, 2022, pp. 151-156. https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.853.0151 Article en accès gratuit jusqu’au 30/07/22 sur : https://www.cairn.info/tap-gmsjcp22r371o En 2013, la Bibliothèque nationale de France a acquis les archives de Michel Foucault, désormais réparties dans 117 boîtes de conservation, complétées depuis par quelques dons de ses …

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Segni e Comprensione Deadline April 15, 2023. Interested researchers are invited to submit their paper by sending their article of no more than 60,000 characters, including spaces, to the email address fabio.sulpizio@unisalento.it by 15 April 2023. Papers may be submitted in Italian, French, English, German or Spanish. Michel Foucault La morte di Michel Foucault, avvenuta …

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Rose, P.A. The Tug-of-War Over Truth: A Foucauldian Case Study on the Interplay of Competing Discourses in Education (2022) Frontiers in Education, 7, art. no. 840403 DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.840403 Abstract The present study applies a Foucauldian critical analytic to investigate competing discourses in education that are shown to be present in one public high school in …

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Hewitt, M. How Does a Foucauldian Genealogical Approach Enhance the Study of Long-Term Care through a Critical Disability Lens? (2022) Societies, 12 (3), art. no. 73 DOI: 10.3390/soc12030073 Abstract Younger disabled adults in long-term care, particularly those with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses, receive care that does not fit their needs. This article looks at …

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Borah, R.R., Bhuvaneswari, G., Hussain, M.M. When Worlds Collide: Using films to Understand the Heterotopic Overlaps of Multiple Worlds (2022) ECS Transactions, 107 (1), pp. 2363-2370. DOI: 10.1149/10701.2363ecst Abstract Heterotopia is an idea as put forward by Michel Foucault, from the notion of place and non-place as disruptive elements. This article explores the fascination with …

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Barry, L. Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity (2022) Theory, Culture and Society DOI: 10.1177/02632764221087932 Abstract Despite their common core in statistics, insurance and epidemiology propel two different forms of solidarity. In insurance, the collective is a source of protection, thanks to the pooling of risks; in epidemics by contrast, the group remains the …

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