Häberlen, J.C. Heterochronias: reflections on the temporal exceptionality of revolts (2021) European Review of History, 28 (4), pp. 531-548. DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1897530 Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of Heterotopias, the article explores how we can understand revolts and revolutions as ‘heterochronian’ moments. Revolts turn spaces of ordinary everyday life, streets and squares, factories and universities, …
Brady, D. The circulatory panopticon: Real names, rail infrastructure and Foucault’s realist turn (2021) Political Geography, 90, art. no. 102463 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102463 Abstract This article examines the contemporary Chinese rail system as a circulatory panopticon: an apparatus that uses the “natural” movements of the population to render them legible and safe. The panoptic effect of …
Meloni, M. The politics of environments before the environment: Biopolitics in the longue durée (2021) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 88, pp. 334-344. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.06.011 Abstract Our understanding of body–world relations is caught in a curious contradiction. On one side, it is well established that many concepts that describe interaction with the outer …
Fajardo, C. Mystified alienation: A discussion between Marx, Foucault and Federici (2021) TripleC, 19 (2), pp. 287-300. DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v19i2.1277 Open access Abstract This article explores Karl Marx’s critique of alienation. Specifically, I will argue that the concept of alienation is essential to understand not only how capitalism reproduces itself, but also to find alternatives to …
Mendes M, Bordignon JS, Menegat RP, Schneider DG, Vargas MAO, Santos EKAD, Cunha PRD. Neither angels nor heroes: nurse speeches during the COVID-19 pandemic from a Foucauldian perspective. Rev Bras Enferm. 2021 Sep 29;75(suppl 1):e20201329. English, Portuguese. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1329. PMID: 34614072. Open access Link to PDF in English Abstract Objective: to analyze the processes of …
Tampoe-Hautin, V. Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950) Cahiers Victoriens and Edouardiens, 2021 DOI: 10.4000/CVE.9040 Open access Abstract While research on material culture has focused abundantly on objects of everyday life as a way of observing societies and understanding our past, only in …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Fighting Bodies: A Genealogy of the Ring, Epoché Philosophy Monthly, Issue #44 September 2021 Open access The following essay will attempt to trace a genealogy for the institution of professional boxing. Applying Michel Foucault’s method of Archeology and Biopolitical critique, the aim will be to demonstrate several things. First, that boxing has not …
Bruno, Fernanda, and Pablo Manolo Rodríguez. “The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies.” Theory, Culture & Society, (September 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211029356. Abstract This article revisits the concept of the dividual, taking as a starting point Deleuze’s diagnosis about the relevance that dividual practices have gained with the advent of biotechnology and digital culture. Although we agree with …
McDonald, M., Thi Nguyen, L., Bubna-Litic, D., Nguyen, T.-N., Taylor, G. Positive Psychology Applied to the Workplace: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (2021) Journal of Humanistic Psychology DOI: 10.1177/00221678211029400 Abstract An ever-expanding literature now exists critiquing the theory and philosophy of positive psychology, however, research has yet to provide a critical analysis of its practical application. …
Wimberly, C. The birth of the post-truth era a genealogy of corporate public relations, propaganda, and Trump (2021) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 35 (2), pp. 130-146. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.35.2.0130 Open access Abstract In the early twentieth century, the most numerous and well-funded institutions in the United States—corporations—used public relations to make widespread and fundamental changes in …
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