Laufer, L. Michel Foucault: The Queer Gender for Psychoanalysis? (2020) Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 40 (8), pp. 579-590. DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2020.1826214 Abstract Why should a practitioner of psychoanalysis read Foucault? Is Foucault still a “hot topic” for psychoanalysts in 2019? To prevent psychoanalysis from becoming a dead language, reading and re-reading Michel Foucault proves highly relevant, as it …
Danielle Guizzo (2021) Reassessing Foucault: Power in the History of Political Economy, International Journal of Political Economy, 50:1, 60-74. DOI: 10.1080/08911916.2021.1894828 Abstract This article examines Michel Foucault’s contributions to the study of power in the history of political economy. It employs Foucault’s readings on economic thought to investigate two moments in the history of political …
Listik Y. (2021) A Biopolitical Account of Social Pathology: Viewing Pathology as a Political-Ontological Issue. In: Harris N. (eds) Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70582-4_7 Open access Abstract This chapter will argue that the study of social pathologies is not solely a sociological concern. It is crucial …
Christiaens, T. The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault’s neoliberal homo oeconomicus (2020) European Journal of Social Theory, 23 (4), pp. 493-511. DOI: 10.1177/1368431019857998 Abstract In his lectures on neoliberalism, Michel Foucault argues that neoliberalism produces subjects as ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’. He bases this claim on Gary Becker’s conception of the utility-maximizing agent who solely …
Webb, S. Philosophy as a feminist spirituality and critical practice for Mary Astell (2020) Metaphilosophy, 51 (2-3), pp. 280-302. DOI: 10.1111/meta.12411 Abstract The question of how gender might inflect and affect philosophy as a way of life has been somewhat neglected, as has the role of philosophical modes of living for historical female philosophers. This …
Zitcer, A. Making Up Creative Placemaking (2020) Journal of Planning Education and Research, 40 (3), pp. 278-288. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X18773424 Abstract Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts and culture as tools for revitalization. Planners, policymakers, funders, and practitioners are engaged in a discursive struggle to define what is meant …
La règle du jeu, n° 72: “Michel Foucault, penseur d’aujourd’hui” Amazon link « On devrait tout lire, tout étudier. » Telle fut la méthode, telle fut aussi l’ambition que se fixa Michel Foucault : traquer, partout dans la société, les mécaniques de pouvoir et de discipline ; identifier les expériences-limites qui forment l’ADN de notre …
John Iliopoulos, “Foucault Understood Critical Psychiatry.” BJPsych Advances, 2021, pp. 1–10. doi:10.1192/bja.2021.22 Summary Critical trends in psychiatry are abundant today. Their impact on how psychiatry is currently practised is considerable. Yet what deserves close examination is the extent to which these modes of critique (anti-psychiatry, liberation movements, activism, existential, narrative or hermeneutic approaches, theories of …
Magee, P (2020) ‘Alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate (by way of the past)’, TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses 24, 1 Open access Abstract This paper contributes to the project of mapping alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate, by way of deep excavation into the history of scholarly forms. A key …
Sheehey, B. Ethics beyond transparency: Resisting the racial injustice of predictive policing (2020) Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 24 (3), pp. 256-281. DOI: 10.5840/techne202087128 Abstract This paper responds to recent work highlighting the problematic racial politics of predictive policing technologies. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s account of ethics as counter-conduct, I develop a set of …
