Casero, J.L. The airport as a disciplinary device for mobility control [El aeropuerto como dispositivo disciplinar para el control de la movilidad] (2021) Kepes, 18 (24), pp. 11-45. In Spanish Open access DOI: 10.17151/kepes.2021.18.24.2 Abstract Since the 9/11 attacks, airports have become control and surveillance devices only comparable to maximum security prisons. For this reason, …
Alexander J. Means (2021) Foucault, biopolitics, and the critique of state reason, Educational Philosophy and Theory DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2021.1871895 The concept of biopolitics was first outlined by Michel Foucault (2003, 2007, 2009) in his lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s in order to name and analyze emergent logics of power in the …
Foucault, Michel. “Literature and Madness: Madness in the Baroque Theatre and the Theatre of Artaud.” Theory, Culture & Society, (October 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211032717. Abstract Literature and madness dominate Michel Foucault’s early writings in the 1960s, and indeed much of his career. In this text, Foucault considers the relation between madness, language, and silence; the difficult frontier …
Brown, M.S. Heterophotographies: play, power, privilege and spaces of otherness in Chinese tourist photography (2021) Culture, Theory and Critique DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1943698 Abstract This article explores Han Chinese tourists’ practice of self-photography in ‘ethnic’ ‘costume’ at tourist sites in China and Japan. Drawing on ethnography and interviews with young Han women, it aims to problematise the …
Laes, E., Bombaerts, G. Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective (2021) Philosophy and Technology DOI: 10.1007/s13347-021-00455-6 Open access Abstract This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by the normative ethics approaches that prevail in the literature. Building on previous insights …
Kobylin, I. The invisible hand of history: Governmentality, the providential machine, and historical materialism (2021) Logos (Russian Federation), 31 (4), pp. 247-265. DOI: 10.22394/0869-5377-2021-4-247-263 Abstract The article is devoted to one aspect of the genealogy of Soviet governmentality. Michel Foucault, who elaborated the original theory of different types of govern-mentality, rejected the idea that socialism …
Kwok, H., Singh, P., Heimans, S. The regime of ‘post-truth’: COVID-19 and the politics of knowledge (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1965544 Abstract The emergence of ‘post-truth’ is often associated with the rise of conspiracy theories and the lack of trust in scientific knowledge. This article attempts to theorise the complex division of labour in this regime …
Testini, F. Genealogical Solutions to the Problem of Critical Distance: Political Theory, Contextualism and the case of Punishment in Transitional Scenarios (2021) Res Publica DOI: 10.1007/s11158-021-09515-2 Abstract In this paper, I argue that one approach to normative political theory, namely contextualism, can benefit from a specific kind of historical inquiry, namely genealogy, because the latter …
Beugnet, M., Delanoë-Brun, E. Raw becomings: Bodies, discipline and control in Julia Ducornau’s Grave (2021) French Screen Studies, 21 (3), pp. 204-223. DOI: 10.1080/26438941.2021.1920705 Abstract Julia Ducournau’s Grave (2018) takes place within the confines of an isolated veterinary school, where humans and animals coexist as part of a highly codified environment. Against the backdrop of …
O’Callaghan, A.K. ‘The medical gaze’: Foucault, anthropology and contemporary psychiatry in Ireland (2021) Irish Journal of Medical Science DOI: 10.1007/s11845-021-02725-w Open access Abstract Michel Foucault developed the concept of ‘the medical gaze’, describing how doctors fit a patient’s story into a ‘biomedical paradigm, filtering out what is deemed as irrelevant material’ (Misselbrook, 2013). Doctors are …
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