Foucault News

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

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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Jones, D.R., Patton, D. An academic challenge to the entrepreneurial university: the spatial power of the ‘Slow Swimming Club’ (2020) Studies in Higher Education, 45 (2), pp. 375-389.  DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1534093 Abstract The entrepreneurial university is a vague notion that has evolved by applying the concepts of enterprise and entrepreneurship to a university context. The blurring of enterprise with entrepreneurship has allowed …

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Furman, C.E. Interruptions: Cultivating Truth-Telling as Resistance with Pre-service Teachers (2020) Studies in Philosophy and Education, 39 (1) DOI: 10.1007/s11217-019-09681-0 Abstract As ethical agents, teachers regularly must decide whether compliance to rules and norms is in the best interest of their students. Yet, teachers in the United States are educated to be passively obedient. In …

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Van der Heiden, G.-J. Exile, Use, and Form-of-Life: On the Conclusion of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series (2020) Theory, Culture and Society, 37 (2), pp. 61-78. DOI: 10.1177/0263276419867749 Abstract The last two volumes of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer series are concerned with developing a theory of use. This article offers a critical assessment of the two …

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Gane, N. Competition: A Critical History of a Concept (2020) Theory, Culture and Society, 37 (2), pp. 31-59. DOI: 10.1177/0263276419878247 Abstract This article expands Michel Foucault’s genealogy of liberalism and neoliberalism by analysing the concept of competition. It addresses four key liberal conceptions of competition in turn: the idea of competition as a destructive but …

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Tidmarsh, M. Transforming Rehabilitation: The micro-physics of (market) power (2020) Punishment and Society, 22 (1), pp. 108-126. DOI: 10.1177/1462474519850573 Abstract This paper explores the impact of the introduction of competition and profit to the probation service in England and Wales following the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. The paper adapts the ideas advanced in …

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