Foucault News

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

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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Lennard Davis, In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare, Critical Inquiry, Volume 47, Number S2, 26 June 2020 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/711458 Open access In regard to disability, the ableism that puts on a compassionate mask in milder times now reveals its brutal face. While laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act …

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Renata Cavalcanti Muniz,Fiorella Macchiavello Ferradas,Georgina M. Gomez,Lee J. Pegler, Covid-19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster, Disasters, 07 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528 Open access Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has been a massive disaster in Brazil, causing more than 350,000 deaths as of April 2021. Moreover, President Jair Bolsonaro suggested …

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Kurtuluş, G. & İnci, M. (2021), “Kapitalizm Sahnesinde Yeni Bir Aktör: Sosyal Girişimler”, Fiscaoeconomia, 5(1), 21-37 https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.795353 Abstract With the termination of welfare state practices in many countries, the task of meeting the needs of the society was handed over to the initiative of neoliberal policies. On the other hand, those who argue that there …

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Michele Spanò, Towards a juridical archaeology of primitive accumulation. A reading of Foucault’s Penal Theories and Institutions, Radical Philosophy, 2, 11, December 2021 Translated by Alberto Toscano Open access The virtual dimensions of a project The implicit diptych formed by the two successive courses delivered by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between 1971 …

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Étienne Balibar, Human species as biopolitical concept, Radical Philosophy, 2.11 (December 2021) Open access I submit that the current situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic and its biopolitical consequences reveals something new in the ontological status of the human species which also involves an anthropological ‘revolution’. 1 This is something more than the fact that …

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Radford, G. P., Radford, M. L., & Lingel, J. (2015). The library as heterotopia: Michel Foucault and the experience of library space. Journal of Documentation, 71(4), 733-751. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2014-0006 Abstract Purpose Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as a guide, the purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of considering the library as place, …

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