Foucault News

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

Murphy, B. Regulating Undercover Policing: Subjects, Rights and Governmentality. Critical Criminology (2020). Published: 28 April 2020 10.1007/s10612-020-09504-6 Abstract One of Foucault’s many unfinished projects was an analysis of the links between law, power and subjectivity. This article aims to make a contribution to Foucauldian jurisprudence by asking the question: in what ways does law construct …

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Sibylle Erle & Helen Hendry, Monsters: interdisciplinary explorations in monstrosity(2020) Palgrave Communications, 6 (1), art. no. 53 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0428-1 Open access Abstract There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular reception of Mary Shelley’s Monster, termed a ‘new species’ by its overreaching but admiringly determined maker Victor Frankenstein …

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Švantner, M. Two basic analyses of the historiography of semiotics: M. Foucault’s comparative semiology and J.N. Deely’s semiotic realism (2020) Semiotica, 2020 (233), pp. 159-177. DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0108 Abstract In this study I compare the work of two scholars who are important for contemporary research into the history of semiotics. The main goal of the study …

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Jocelyn Lachance, Parental surveillance of teens in the digital era: the “ritual of confession” to the “ritual of repentance” (2020) International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 25 (1), pp. 355-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2019.1651351 Open access Abstract The use of ICTs by teens are sometimes a source of fear for parents. Yet the same ICTs can be a …

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Marlon Salomon, Obituary, François Delaporte (1941 – 2019) Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science (6) 2019: 115-123 https://doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2019.i6.11 Open access On the 28th of May, the French philosopher and historian of sciences, François Delaporte died in Amiens at the age of 78. He was an emeritus professor at the Université de Picardie Jules …

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Colombo, Agustin. (2020). Michel Foucault e a obediência da carne Cristã. Revista de Filosofia Aurora, 32(55). doi: 10.7213/1980-5934.32.055.AO03 Michel Foucault and the obedience of the Christian flesh Open access Resumo Este artigo investiga a dimensão política do que Michel Foucault chama a “experiência da Carne”, baseando-se na obra maior póstuma do filósofo francês História da …

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Farzaneh Haghighi, Heterotopic sites of knowledge production: Notes on an architectural analysis of lecture halls, Cultural Dynamics, February 14, 2020 DOI: 10.1177/0921374020907111 Abstract This article is concerned with the spatial analysis of lecture theaters in higher education institutions and it draws upon two concepts developed by Michel Foucault during the 1970s—heterotopia and the will to …

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Kyungmee Lee (2020) Openness and innovation in online higher education: a historical review of the two discourses, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, Published online: 14 Jan 2020 DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2020.1713737 ABSTRACT This article tackles a critical question:‘to what extent can online higher education (HE) be open and innovative at the same time?’ …

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COVID-19 Essays TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, March 23, 2020 Editorial Introduction: Writing in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Vulnerability to Solidarity This is a rapid response collection of essays. In the evening on Sunday, March 15 we began contacting Canadian-based scholars working in the field of biopolitics to write a short, …

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Davies, H.M. Living with asthma in 19th-century France: The doctor, Armand Trousseau, and the patient, Emile Pereire (2020) Journal of Medical Biography, 28 (1), pp. 15-23. DOI: 10.1177/0967772017741763 Abstract Major advances in the French medical system following the French Revolution have stimulated a rich historiography of which Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie …

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