Foucault News

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

Yahya M. Madra, Fikret Adaman, Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms: De-Politicisation Through Economisation (2013) Antipode, 46: 691-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12065 Abstract This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post-war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post-Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault’s reading …

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Adrian Guta, Stephanie A. Nixon, Michael G. Wilson, Resisting the seduction of “ethics creep”: Using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review (2013) Social Science and Medicine, 98, pp. 301-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.019 Abstract In this paper we examine “ethics creep”, a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of …

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Brad Gobby, Principal self-government and subjectification: the exercise of principal autonomy in the Western Australian Independent Public Schools programme (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (3), pp. 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.832338 Abstract The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management …

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Deleuze / Foucault: A Neoliberal Diagram, Mediatropes Vol 4, No 1 (2013) Link to issue. Full PDFs available Table of Contents Editorial Introduction: Neoliberal Diagrammatics and Digital Control Matthew Tiessen, Greg Elmer IPO 2.0: The Panopticon Goes Public Greg Elmer Resilience versus Resistance: Affectively Modulating Contemporary Diagrams of Social Resilience, Social Sustainability, and Social Innovation …

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Adam Davidson-Harden, What is social sciences and humanities research ‘Worth’? Neoliberalism and the framing of social sciences and humanities work in Canada (2013) Policy Futures in Education, 11 (4), pp. 375-386. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.4.387 Abstract This article offers a critique of the discursive politics represented in attempts to frame social sciences and humanities work in the mould …

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In Conversation: William Davies and Nicholas Gane on Neoliberalism and the Ethos of Competition In this interview for the TCS Website (18 December 2013), William Davies and Nicholas Gane discuss competition, monopoly, markets, neoliberalism and Foucault. NG: You have a forthcoming book in the TCS book series called The Limits of Neoliberalism. Could you tell …

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Eric Aeschimann, Pourquoi Michel Foucault est partout, Le nouvel obs, 21 décembre 2013. Economie, politique, genre, histoire, spiritualité… 30 ans après la mort du philosophe, notre siècle néolibéral porte son nom. Explications n 1979, dans le cadre de son cours hebdomadaire au Collège de France, Michel Foucault consacre trois séances à la théorie néolibérale. Il …

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Originally posted on Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Dans le Nouvel Observateur du 12 décembre 2013, Eric Aeschimann publie un article intitulé « Foucault est partout » censé décrire l’influence de Foucault dans la pensée contemporaine. C’est un article plein d’erreurs, d’approximations.  Dans ce texte, le critique me range avec François Ewald dans la catégorie des…

Colin Koopman, From Biopower to Infopower?: A Genealogy of One Aspect of Contemporary Politics Text on youtube Colin Koopman, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, spoke at Oregon State University on December 3rd, 2013. A wide number of contemporary political assemblages from mass surveillance to finance capitalism to big data suggest …

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Les néolibéralismes de Michel Foucault, Raisons politiques, N° 52, 2013/4, 172 pages. Special Issue https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2013-4 Présentation En 1979, Michel Foucault prononce un cours au Collège de France intitulé “Naissance de la biopolitique”. Cet ensemble de leçons propose un examen du néolibéralisme allemand (Ordolibéralisme) et américain (École de Chicago). Foucault, dans ce cadre, propose des constructions …

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