Foucault News

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

Ball, S., Collet-Sabé, J. Against school: an epistemological critique (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1947780 Abstract The paper argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. 1 Contrary to the sensibilities of educational research that look for more and/or better schooling as a way of making education more equal and more inclusive, our position is against …

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Colombo, A. Inexpérience des Pères : Les Aveux de la chair de Michel Foucault et la formation de l’expérience de la chair (2021) Revue Théologique de Louvain, 52 (1), pp. 43-64. DOI: 10.2143/RTL.52.1.3289206 Abstract This article investigates Michel Foucault’s account of « experi ence of the Flesh » based on Foucault’s posthumous Les Aveux de …

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Rozhdestvenskaia, E.A. The ethics of care discourse for future education (2021) Chelovek, 32 (2), pp. 76-88. DOI: 10.31857/S023620070014862-5 Abstract We reveal the key approaches to the ethics of care (Plato, M. Heidegger, M. Foucault), and the features of the feminist ethics of care (N. Noddings, K. Gilligan et al.), which implies the denial of the …

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Claudia Aradau and Martina Tazzioli, Covid-19 and rebordering the world Radical Philosophy 2.10 (Summer 2021) In April 2021, dozens of asylum seekers were moved back to the Napier Barracks in the UK, after the barracks had been emptied a month earlier following protests and media reports on its unsuitable conditions. Migrant support groups and NGOs …

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Barashkov, V.V., Begchin, D.A., Davidov, I.P. Modern European philosophy of symbolic forms of religious and artistic consciousness (2021) Voprosy Filosofii, 2021 (6), pp. 74-84. DOI: 10.21146/0042-8744-2021-6-74-84 Abstract The article deals with the philosophical issues in the field of religious art. The revision of the theories of secularization in the late 20th – early 21st centuries …

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CAVALCANTI, R.C.T., SOUZA-LEÃO, A.L.M., MOURA, B.M. Hipsters versus posers: Fannish split in the indie music world (2021) Revista de Administracao Mackenzie, 22 (3) DOI: 10.1590/1678-6971/ERAMG210202 Abstract Purpose: Web 2.0 technologies have enhanced relational dynamics in fan communities. Indie music fans significantly identify themselves with the genre and participate in these communities within a music industry …

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Hillier, Jean, and Jason Byrne. “Is Extermination to Be the Legacy of Mary Gilbert’s Cat?” Organization 23, no. 3 (May 2016): 387–406. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508416629455. Abstract Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate …

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Weinreich, Spencer J. “Panopticon, Inc.: Jeremy Bentham, Contract Management, and (Neo)Liberal Penality.” Punishment & Society, (July 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211023457. Abstract This essay revisits Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, perhaps the foundational figure of the study of the prison, to recover a dimension of the project wholly omitted in Michel Foucault’s canonical reading in Discipline and Punish. Nowhere does …

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Kovačević, V., Malenica, K. Heterotopia and Postmodern Community in the Context of Migration and Relationship Towards Migrants (2021) Italian Sociological Review, 11 (1), pp. 63-86. DOI: 10.13136/isr.v11i1.415 Abstract This work approaches the issue of migration of the Arab population to Europe within the idea of postmodern community and the concept of heterotopia. The social and …

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Oxana Timofeeva Rathole: Beyond the Rituals of Handwashing, e-flux, #119 – June 2021 In the spring of 2020, when the World Health Organization formally announced the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and governments began introducing new restrictions, some philosophers looked to Michel Foucault, who created tools for analyzing mass disease in relation to discourses and …

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