Maher, H. Foucault against the Foucauldians? On the problem of the neoliberal state (2021) Thesis Eleven DOI: 10.1177/07255136211053377 Abstract The survival of neoliberal forms of governance after their apparent repudiation during the Global Financial Crisis is a problem that continues to generate significant scholarly controversy. One of the most influential accounts of the survival of …
Thornton, E. Unregulated Powers: The Politics of Metaphysics in French Post-Kantianism (2021) European Legacy DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2021.1987849 Abstract For thinkers such as Foucault and Deleuze, it is not possible to engage with metaphysical questions without simultaneously considering other, more political problems concerning the power relations that are internal to thought. In this article I argue that, …
Voogt, A. Spirituality in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: An analysis in the wake of Foucault (2021) Metaphilosophy DOI: 10.1111/meta.12523 Abstract Ancient philosophy is often distinguished from modern philosophy regarding its affinity to spirituality. In antiquity, philosophy meant a way of life rather than a body of knowledge. Yet according to Michel Foucault, Hegel’s Phenomenology of …
Horton, S. When the face becomes a carrier: Biopower, Levinas’s ethics, and contagion (2021) Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 77 (2-3), pp. 715-732. DOI: 10.17990/RPF/2021_77_2_0715 Abstract In the midst of a pandemic, what does it mean to see the Other as Other and not as a carrier of the virus? I argue that in seeking a …
Beukes, Johann. “Michel Foucault on Methodius of Olympus (d.ca.311) in Les aveux de la chair: Patrick Vandermeersch’s analysis contextualised.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies , 77.4 (2021): 12 pages. Web. 30 Oct. 2021 Open access Abstract This article presents a contextualisation of Belgian philosopher and historian of psychiatry and sexuality, Patrick Vandermeersch’s (1946–), unpublished …
McCall, Corey. “Oedipal Fragments: Reconsidering the Significance of Oedipus for James Bernauer and Michel Foucault.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 47, no. 8 (October 2021): 947–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211042610. Abstract This essay reconstructs James Bernauer’s reading of Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis in his essay “Oedipus, Freud, Foucault” in order to assess the role that Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis …
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 …
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