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

Kyungmee Lee (2020). Michel Foucault in technology-enhanced learning: An analytic review of 10 Foucauldian studies on online education. Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.6ff53517 Abstract This paper aims to introduce Foucault’s theoretical ideas to researchers of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), particularly researchers who are interested in online educational provisions. This paper explains some of Foucault’s …

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Cités N° 84/2020 : Biopolitique du coronavirus (2020) Date de parution 06/01/2021 RÉSUMÉ Jamais sans doute le concept de biopolitique, inventé par Michel Foucault en 1975, il y a donc quarante-cinq ans, n’aura mieux prouvé sa pertinence que dans la période actuelle. La biopolitique chez Foucault se caractérise en particulier par deux dimensions : la …

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Sotiris, P. Thinking beyond the lockdown: On the possibility of a democratic biopolitics (2020) Historical Materialism DOI: 10.1163/1569206X-12342803 Abstract Covid-19 is not only a health emergency but also a strategic challenge for any politics of resistance, struggle and transformation. Understanding the social and political dynamics associated with morbidity and mortality and the many ‘ecologies of …

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Raymond Blake Stricklin, “I have nothing to say”—John Cage, biopower, and the demilitarization of language (2020) Journal of Modern Literature, 43 (3), pp. 98-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.3.06 Abstract In 1975, John Cage read from his chance-generated piece, Empty Words, at the Schizo-Culture conference held at Columbia University. The conference connected Cage with post-1968 theorists like Michel Foucault, …

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Hakem Al-Rustom, Internal orientalism and the nation-state order: Turkey, armenians, and the writing of history (2020) Ariel, 51 (4), pp. 1-31. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2020.0026 Abstract This essay reads Edward Said’s Orientalism not only as a history of the idea of the Orient in Europe but as a book of oppositional history that challenges institutions of power and …

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Thomas Corbin and JP Deranty, Foucault on the centrality of work. OnWork Newsletter, 2 November 2020 In recent weeks, our research has focused on Michel Foucault’s contribution to debates on work. Throughout his immense corpus, Foucault never ceased to take work as a central object of his analyses. The History of Madness for instance begins with an alternative …

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Richard Horton, Offline: COVID-19—a crisis of power, The Lancet, COMMENT| VOLUME 396, ISSUE 10260, P1383, OCTOBER 31, 2020 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32262-5 Open access COVID-19 is about the politics of the body. In a series of lectures and essays in the 1970s and early 1980s, Michel Foucault (who died in 1984) argued that the discipline of public health …

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Falkowski, T., Ostrowicka, H. Ethicalisation of higher education reform: The strategic integration of academic discourse on scholarly ethos (2020) Educational Philosophy and Theory DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1740684 Abstract The article presents the results of an analysis of the academic dispute about the scholarly ethos, conducted at the time of intense higher education reforms in Poland. Previous analyses …

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Abdul-Jabbar, W.K. Foucauldian parrhesia and Avicennean contingency in Muslim education: The curriculum of metaphysics (2020) Educational Philosophy and Theory DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1738918 Abstract This study examines the Foucauldian notion of “parrhesia” within the context of curricular practices through a renewal of scholarly interest in Islamic metaphysics as represented by the Avicennean modalities of reality: necessity, contingency, …

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