Foucault News

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

Fiorani, Matteo. “Rationality, irrationality and irrationalism in the anti-institutional debate in psychiatry around the second half of the 1970s in italy.” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 16, br. 2 (2020): 101-121. DOI: 10.31820/ejap.16.2.5 Open access Abstract The movements and protests of 1968 worldwide criticized the traditional idea of normality. From the 1970s onwards, psychiatry and …

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Golder, Ben, How to do things with Foucault (legally) (February 2, 2021). SSRN Abstract In this essay I discuss the legal theorist, Peter Fitzpatrick’s, reading of philosopher, Michel Foucault. My intent is to show how and why Foucault was important to Fitzpatrick and what this reveals about the latter’s practices of reading. I characterise this …

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Torres Apablaza, Iván. “Ethopolitical modulation of existence: an archeology of the political and ethical life in Michel Foucault” Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy Vol 10, No 18 (2021): 199-223 Open access RESUMEN El artículo tiene por propósito fundamentar la presencia de una reconceptualización de lo político en el pensamiento de Michel …

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Ramírez-García, V. The Administration of Desire: Governmentality and Sexual Politics in Mexico’s Demographic Shift of the 1970s. Sexuality Research and Social Policy volume 17, pp. 741–752 (2020). DOI:10.1007/s13178-020-00430-4 Open access Abstract Introduction In 1974 Mexico adopted a new Population Act which marked a turning point in its policies of migration, fertility and education; this new …

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Georgette Bajada, Anne-Marie Callus & Kurt Borg (2021) Unpretentious education: a Foucaultian study of inclusive education in Malta, Disability & Society, Published online: 27 Jan 2021 DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1874877 Abstract This article adopts a theoretical perspective inspired from the work of Michel Foucault to explore the experience of disabled students in Malta. In particular, it studies …

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Covid-19 no Brasil e diagnóstico do presente: análise do discurso e biopolítica, Revista Ética e Filosofia Política, v. 2 n. 23 (2020): Episteme e Práxis DOI: 10.34019/2448-2137.2020.33287 Open access Resumo A partir do pano de fundo da gestão política da pandemia de COVID-19, este artigo visa apresentar e discutir a noção foucaultiana de biopolítica articulando …

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Federico Jose Lagdameo, Normalizing the Population: The Biopolitics of the “New Normal”, Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture XXIV.1 (2020): 67–97. Open access Abstract While the whole world is trying to get its bearings in the face of the radical changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, two prevailing attitudes or approaches have emerged: …

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Hull, Gordon, Infrastructure, Modulation, Portal: Thinking with Foucault about how Internet Architecture Shapes Subjects, SSRN (January 22, 2021). Open access Abstract Following Foucault’s remarks on the importance of architecture to disciplinary power, this paper offers a typology of power relations expressed in different models of Internet governance. Infrastructure governance understands the Internet as a common …

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Mathieu Arminjon & Régis Marion-Veyron, Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage (2021) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (1), art. no. 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00359-2 Open access Abstract In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France’s Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect …

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George Kokkinidis and Marco Checchi, Power matters: Posthuman entanglements in a social solidarity clinic (2021) Organization, Vol 30, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420973304 Abstract This paper develops a materialist and performative conception of power, proposing a theoretical framework that bridges Barad’s intra-active agential ontology and Foucault’s microphysics of power. The article uses empirical data collected from a …

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