Foucault News

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

Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Economy: strategies for critiques of power (7 – 9 December 2015) CBS – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark PhD School Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy Faculty Mitchell Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS Stuart Elden, Professor, Monash University Ute Tellmann, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg …

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Patrick West Foucault: from libertine to neoliberal , Spiked, 3 July 2015 Was the French philosopher really a Reaganite in poststructural clothing? Was Foucault a neoliberal?’ So asked an accusatory headline the other day in Le Nouvel Observateur, France’s centre-left news weekly. It’s a grave allegation. ‘Saint Foucault’, as the article sarcastically calls him, was …

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Raaper, R. Academic perceptions of higher education assessment processes in neoliberal academia (2015) Critical Studies in Education, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1019901 Abstract Neoliberal higher education reforms in relation to quality assurance, managerialist practices, accountability and performativity are receiving increasing attention and criticism. In this article, I will address student assessment as part …

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Serge Audier, Penser le « néolibéralisme ». Le moment néolibéral, Foucault, et la crise du socialisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau, coll. « Documents », 2015, 570 p., ISBN : 9782356874030. Further Info Qu’est-ce vraiment que le néolibéralisme ? Et comment en sortir ? Pour répondre à ces questions, il peut être utile d’élucider d’abord …

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Golob, M.I., Giles, A.R. Multiculturalism, neoliberalism and immigrant minorities’ involvement in the formation and operation of leisure-oriented ventures (2015) Leisure Studies, 34 (1), pp. 98-113. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.962589 Abstract This study draws on Foucault’s concept of the ‘entrepreneur self’ to broaden understandings of the links and intersections between the normative prescriptions of multicultural citizenship in Canada …

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Rajesh Venugopal, Neoliberalism as Concept, Economy and Society, Published online: 24 Apr 2015 DOI:10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356 Abstract This paper is a critical exploration of the of the term neoliberalism. Drawing on a wide range of literature across the critical social sciences and with particular emphasis on the political economy of development, it evaluates the consequences of the …

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Originally posted on sanshistory:
“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the strategic programming of individuals’ activity” (Foucault, M. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège…

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015 Political Science | Philosophy $29.95 | £20.05 cloth 978-1-935408-53-6 296 pp. | 6 x 8 Available January 2015 Zone books Also available from MIT Press Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and …

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Booked #3: What Exactly is Neoliberalism? Timothy Shenk ▪ Dissent, April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing …

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Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alexander Arnold on Critiquer Foucault: Les Années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 March 2015 JACOBIN RECENTLY PUBLISHED an interview with a little-known sociologist that provoked a wave of reactions. A young Belgian scholar named Daniel Zamora claimed that …

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