Foucault News

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

Daher-Nashif, S. (2021). In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociology Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12949 Abstract Politics is a major player in health, sickness, and death affairs. This article reviews the role of politics in public health and its impact on health outcomes, mortality ratios, and death …

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Kaveh Dastooreh, The Aesthetics of Life: More than Ethics and Morality. Studies in Philosophy and Education (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-021-09812-6 Abstract This paper explores the general characteristics of the aesthetics of life. Our approach will be in thinking about the aesthetics of life as a domain independent from the realms of ethics and morality. This thesis discusses …

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materiali foucaultiani volume VIII, numero 15-16 (gennaio-dicembre 2019) Vie, violence, pouvoir. Figures et frontières de la biopolitique (sous la direction de Philippe Sabot) Open access Valentina Antoniol, Cesar Candiotto, Amaury Delvaux, André de Macedo Duarte & Maria Rita de Assis Cesar, Marion Farge, Marcelo Raffin, Philippe Sabot, David Simard, Carolina Verlengia, Stéphane Zygart Recensioni – …

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Gandy, M. (2021), The zoonotic city: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, First published: 07 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13080 Open access Abstract In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic this article takes a longer view of the evolving relationship between urbanization and the range of zoonotic diseases that …

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Posselt, G. (2021). Self-Care and Truth-Telling: Rethinking Care with Foucault. Le Foucaldien, 7(1), 10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.107 Abstract Although the care of the self looms large in Michel Foucault’s later works, his analyses are largely neglected in current debates on care. This may be due to the fact that Foucault’s work has so far been read …

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Alain Brossat, Son cœur mis à nu – l’impossible biographie de Michel Foucault, Ici et Ailleurs, 11 août 2017 (Première publication : avril 2009) Il m’a fallu un peu de temps avant de déceler le piège que comportait l’invitation qui m’a été adressée par Stéphane Nadaud à venir parler ici autour d’un énoncé en apparence …

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Foucault Studies. Issue 31, December 2021 Open access Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Symposium: Ars Erotica Sexuality and/as Art, Power, and Reconciliation Preface to symposium on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica. Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love: Stefano Marino Ars Erotica and Sôphrosunê: Examining Shusterman’s Nietzsche Catherine Botha On the Interest in the …

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Povinelli, Elizabeth A., Mathew Coleman, and Kathryn Yusoff. “An Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli: Geontopower, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene.” Theory, Culture & Society 34, no. 2–3 (May 2017): 169–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417689900. Open access Abstract This article is an interview with Elizabeth Povinelli, by Mathew Coleman and Kathryn Yusoff. It addresses Povinelli’s approaches to ‘geontologies’ and ‘geontopower’, and …

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Technologies of Control and Infrastructures of Redistribution Martina Tazzioli and Oana Pârvan, e-flux journal, Issue #123, December 2021 Open access Martina Tazzioli A well-known slogan that emerged from the disability movement during the 1990s goes: “Nothing about us without us.” It stresses that no policy should be adopted without fully involving those who are affected …

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Irmgard Emmelhainz, Authoritarianism and the Cybernetic Episteme, or the Progressive Disappearance of Everything on Earth, e-flux journal, Issue #122, November 2021 Open access Life and society worldwide have been transformed by digital technology, including the fabrics of emotional relationships. Many believed the internet would be the largest ungoverned space in the world with unlimited emancipatory …

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