Foucault News

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

Giorgio Astone, Pieghe, invaginazioni, addugliature. Deleuze interprete di Foucault, Laboratorio Archeologia Filosofica, Dicembre 2020 Open access 1. Introduzione – Fra parentesi quadre Con il titolo La soggettivazione viene tradotta in italiano anche l’ultima sezione del corso universitario tenuto da Gilles Deleuze a Paris VIII nell’anno accademico 1985-1986, preceduto dai due volumi Il sapere (Deleuze 2014) e Il potere (Deleuze 2018), contenente …

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Laurie Laufer (2020) Michel Foucault: The Queer Gender for Psychoanalysis?, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 40:8, 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 also implies …

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Patrice Ladwig (2021) Thinking with Foucault Beyond Christianity and the Secular: Notes on Religious Governmentality and Buddhist Monasticism, Political Theology, Published online 1/1/21 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866809 ABSTRACT In Michel Foucault’s original formulation of the concept, governmentality is intrinsically linked to religious practices and institutions. Although Christian practices associated with the pastorate and monasticism feature prominently as …

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Daniel J. Schultz (2020) Foucault and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity, Political Theology Published online: 30 Dec 2020 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866814 Limited open access Introduction Political theology announces a relationship between religion and politics, but what structures this relationship and how do the related terms show up as objects of knowledge in the first place? Considerations of …

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Mariaconcetta Costantini, Pandemics, Power, and Conspiracy Theories, Critical Quarterly First published: 10 December 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12578 Open access Our culture is awash in conspiracy theories’, Joseph Uscinski recently observed to emphasise the crucial role the Internet plays in circulating a deluge of information and conjectures – including fake news – around the world.1 Sometimes created by …

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Cristóbal Durán Rojas, Iván Torres Apablaza, El impasse de la resistencia. La intersección entre Foucault y Deleuze a propósito de la salida del poder, Hybris, Vol. 11, Núm. 2 (2020) The impasse of resistance. The intersection between Foucault and Deleuze regarding the exit from power Open access RESUMEN En este trabajo intentamos proponer una lectura …

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Patricia Ticineto Clough, Deleuze’s Foucault, Coils of the Serpent, issue 6 (2020): Control societies II: Philosophy, politics, economy, pp. 26-32 Open access Extract When in 2013, I taught a graduate seminar on Foucault at the Graduate Center, CUNY, my introductory lecture for the course was titled “Au Revoir to Deleuze’s Foucault.” Perhaps the lecture title …

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Moore, Alison Downham (2019). The Historicity of Sexuality: Knowledge of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Sexual Science. Modern Intellectual History, 1-24. DOI:10.1017/S147924431900026X Open access Abstract From the very moment the concept of sexuality emerged in nineteenth-century European medical and psychiatric thought, it became a topic of historicization. This historicization formed a consistent habit …

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Dominic Hewson, ‘All the time watched’: an analysis of disciplinary power within the Irish Direct Provision system (2020) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844001 Abstract Initially launched as a temporary measure, Direct Provision is two decades old and home to 7,400 asylum seekers. Since inception, it has been the target of internal and external …

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Harvey, S.D.L., Gearity, B.T., Kuklick, C.R. Just keep swimming: setting the stage for disrupting the sports coaching épistémè (2020) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2020.1848330 Abstract Despite attempts to decrease mental illness in the United States, mental illness and death by suicide are still prevalent in the sports community. The most significant barrier to athletes seeking …

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