Newman, S. Power, Freedom and Obedience in Foucault and La Boétie: Voluntary Servitude as the Problem of Government Theory, Culture and Society, (2021). DOI: 10.1177/02632764211024333 Open access Abstract I investigate the contemporary problem of obedience through an exploration of Michel Foucault and Étienne de La Boétie, showing how the former drew on the latter’s concept …
Alphin, C., Debrix, F. Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics, Philosophy and Social Criticism, (2021). DOI: 10.1177/01914537211033011 Abstract This article explores German Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s notion of psychopolitics and his concept of the neoliberal subject. For Han, mental processes are now the primary target of power. This means that, according …
Special section: Miguel De Beistegui, The Government Of Desire: A Genealogy Of The Liberal Subject, Philosophy Today: Volume > 65 > Issue: 4, 2021 Vilde Lid Aavitsland, The “Man of Desire” or the “Man of Labor”?: Comments on Miguel de Beistegui’s The Government of Desire Kevin Thompson, Comments on Miguel De Beistegui’s The Government of …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión (2021) Territorial Control and Subjectivities at Risk: Counter-Conducts for the Intercultural/Developmentalist/Extractivist Dispositive in Chile (1989–2018), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42:5, 610-626, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2021.1971169 ABSTRACT This article examines intercultural discourses in the Mapuche context of the Araucanía region of Chile, based on the material and enunciative conditions which sustain their circulation. These conditions shape …
Telos 196 (Fall 2021): Thinking vs. Doing From David Pan’s introduction […] The dichotomy of thinking versus doing seems to arise out of our own sense of the difference between our minds and our bodies. On the one hand, the gap between mind and body is the basis of the perspective with which the mind …
Giorgi Vachnadze, The Phenomenological Panopticon and the Historical a Priori: Towards a Genealogy of the Transcendental Subject, Epoché, Issue #37 February 2021 A teleological conception of history begins with Hegel and terminates with Foucault. The following text will not concern itself with Hegel and the Hegelian interpretation of history, it will not be an extensive …
Krarup, Troels. “Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought.” Theory, Culture & Society 38, no. 5 (September 2021): 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420984528. Abstract Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within the intellectual field of its emergence and (b) explained why it is called ‘archaeology’ and not simply …
Gollmitzer, M. Journalism ethics with Foucault: Casually employed journalists’ constructions of professional integrity (2021) Journalism DOI: 10.1177/14648849211036301 Abstract This article examines how journalists in non-permanent employment respond to their growing precarity. It is based on in-depth interviews with freelance journalists and interns who find that their working lives increasingly require entrepreneurial efforts. To work towards …
Yusheng, D. Benjamin’s Reading on Baudelaire: From Foucauldian Genealogy of Ethics (2021) Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 5 (2), pp. 277-290. Abstract In The Use of Pleasure, the second volume of The History of Sexuality published in 1984, Michel Foucault turns to the study of the genealogy of ethics, suggesting that it is possible to read …
Czarnecka, D. Instrumental touch: A foucauldian analysis of women’s fitness (2020) Suomen Antropologi, 45 (4), pp. 23-43. DOI: 10.30676/JFAS.V45I4.107794 Open access Abstract Group Pilates classes in commercial fitness gyms are among the most common forms of mindful fitness in Warsaw. The instructors teaching these classes often correct the participant’s posture by touching them. While academic …
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