Foucault News

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

Simoncini, A. Reading capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx. [Leer El capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx] (2021) Arete, 33 (2), pp. 367-388. DOI: 10.18800/arete.202102.008 Open access Abstract Foucault and Benjamin exploited different themes and categories from Marx’s Capital, in accordance with their topics of interest and theoretical and political options. Foucault concentrated on the analysis of the relations …

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Hao, A.X. Make this tango viral: Touching toward the untouchable in tele-synaesthesia performance (2021) Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 8 (2-3), pp. 237-266. DOI: 10.1386/JCCA_00046_1 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncanny rift between tact and touch as it expands the virtual towards its potential. Layer upon layer of new information has been repeatedly …

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Jusmet, L.R. Constructing oneself as an ethical subject for a true life: The proposals of Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault and François Jullien [Construirse como sujeto ético para una vida verdadera. Las propuestas de Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault y François Jullien] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 159-172. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1372 Abstract This work analyses the line of thought …

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Sapsford, R. Contradictory regimes of practice: Constructs and discourses in an open prison (2021) Theory and Psychology DOI: 10.1177/09593543211061507 Abstract Using concepts from Kelly and Foucault, analysis of interviews in the mid-1990s with staff in an English open prison explores how contrasting discourses are reconciled. Two superficially antagonistic discursive formations within prison practice are described: …

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Discussions on Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (U of Minnesota Press, 2021), eds. Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn and trs. Perry Zurn and Erik Beranek. **Conversations in Atlantic theory: Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on Intolerable: . Podcast (January 2022) **Recorded Zoom Conversation with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on …

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Palti, E.J. Deleuze’s Foucault: on the possibility of an outside of knowledge/power (2021) History and Theory, 60 (4), pp. 20-35. DOI: 10.1111/hith.12234 Abstract During 1985 and 1986, Gilles Deleuze directed a seminar on Michel Foucault’s work at the University of Paris 8 at Vincennes/St. Denis. The course was divided into three parts, one dedicated to …

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Boyle, C. The (in)credible fiscal prize: A critical examination of the discourse of evidence in early childhood intervention (2021) Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood DOI: 10.1177/14639491211059164 Open access Abstract In playing with the concept of ‘credibility’, this article presents a critical examination of the discourse of evidence and the programming of upbringing in early intervention …

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Kurtulus, G., İnci, M. “Merkantilizminin Disiplinci İktidar Projesi: Büyük Kapatilma [The Disciplinary Power Project Of French Mercantilism:The Great Confinement]”. Marmara University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences 43 (2021): 253-265 https://dx.doi.org/10.14780/muiibd.1052065 Open access An extended abstract in English can be found at the end of the paper. Öz Fransa, merkantilist doktrinin en önemli temsilcilerinden biriydi. …

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Tobias, S. Critique as virtue: Buddhism, Foucault, and the ethics of critique (2021) Comparative and Continental Philosophy DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2021.2008846 Abstract This article examines Michel Foucault’s views concerning the ethical salience of critique and compares those views to the Buddhist Madhyamaka tradition. As a critic of the Enlightenment, Foucault’s approach to ethics vacillated between deconstructing moral …

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Emerson, R.G. Critique of biopolitical violence (2021) Critical Studies on Security DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2021.2012395 Abstract Written 100 years ago, Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of violence’ offers an escape from the biopolitical spiral into death. It confronts the violent underside to a politics of life by refusing to justify force on set political-legal grounds, and, by offering readings …

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