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

Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos Foucault y el derecho. Núm. 7 (2019) Artículos Poder, libertad y derecho a partir del último Foucault: consideraciones sobre la noción de “gobierno de sí” Marco Díaz Marsá «Derechos del hombre/derechos humanos» versus «derechos de los gobernados»: un análisis de la producción de derechos en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault …

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Angela Oels(2005) Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government?,Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning,7:3,185-207,DOI: 10.1080/15239080500339661 Abstract This article generates a theoretical framework for analysing the politics of climate change on the basis of Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Foucault does not limit the exercise of power to sovereignty, but introduces discipline, biopower, liberal …

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Levon, E., Milani, T.M. Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging (2019) Language in Society, 48 (4), pp. 607-628. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404519000356 Open access Abstract Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous …

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Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, Astérion (ENS de Lyon), 21/2019 https://doi.org/10.4000/asterion.4074 Challenging Foucault with psychiatry and psychoanalysis Sous la direction de Laurent DARTIGUES et Elisabetta BASSO Open access Le dossier a pour but d’interroger, à partir de Michel Foucault, le lien entre la réflexion épistémologique sur la santé mentale et …

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Sonya E. Pritzker & Whitney L. Duncan, Technologies of the Social: Family Constellation Therapy and the Remodeling of Relational Selfhood in China and Mexico (2019) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 43 (3), pp. 468-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09632-x Abstract In this article, we investigate how an increasingly popular therapeutic modality, family constellation therapy (FCT), functions simultaneously as a technology …

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materiali foucaultiani volume VII, number 13-14 (January-December 2018) TABLE OF CONTENTS Il cantiere archeologico e la questione della critica (pp. 4-8) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli The final Foucault and Education Introduction. The final Foucault and Education (pp. 9-27) Roberto Serpieri, Emiliano Grimaldi, Stephen J. Ball Foucault and Neoliberalism. A response to …

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Barry, Laurence & Fisher, Eran. Digital audiences and the deconstruction of the collective, Subjectivity (2019) 12: 210. DOI: 10.1057/s41286-019-00073-w Abstract This paper aims at characterizing the change that occurred in audience conception with the advent of big data technologies. We argue that a good place to analyze this change is in the marketing techniques geared …

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Archeologia filosofica è il nome di questa nuova collana, diretta da Alessandro Baccarin e Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, [Laboratorio archeologia filosofica] e dedicata a temi, autori e problemi di solito relegati in una zona difficilmente accessibile del pensiero. Scopriamo invece che il “senso comune” dei discorsi e dei “valori” è intessuto di saperi esclusi dalla “cultura” …

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Knauft, B.M. Self-possessed and Self-governed: Transcendent Spirituality in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism (2019) Ethnos, 84 (4), pp. 557-587. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2017.1313289 Abstract Among Tibetan Buddhist tantric practitioners, including in the U.S., visualisation and incorporation of mandala deities imparts a parallel world against which conventional reality is considered impermanent and afflicted. Tantric adepts aspire through meditation, visualisation, and …

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Ralph Tafon, Fred Saunders and Michael Gilek, Re-reading marine spatial planning through Foucault, Haugaard and others: an analysis of domination, empowerment and freedom (2019) Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21 (6), pp. 754-768. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1673155 Open access Abstract Marine spatial planning (MSP) has emerged as a radical approach to achieving sustainable development objectives at sea. …

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