Foucault News

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

Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 12 A Special Issue on Foucault and Race Guest Edited by Ladelle McWhorter Issue 12 also includes: A translated interview with Denys Foucault An interview with Cressida J. Heyes Three original articles related to Foucault’s writings on neoliberalism and eight book reviews Foucault Studies is …

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Sam Binkley, “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Social Practice and the Government of Neoliberal Interiority” Journal of the History of Human Sciences 24: 3 July 2011. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111412877 Abstract This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neoliberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it is argued that the constellations of power identified …

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Munro, I. (2011), The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations after Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews. August https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00320.x Abstract This paper provides a review of the reception of Foucault’s later work on biopolitics within management and organization studies and contrasts this with the reception of these ideas in sister fields of research in the social …

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Special Issue on Foucault and International Law 2012 marks Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL)’s 25th anniversary. Added 24 August 2012. Now published LJIL celebrates this Silver Jubilee with several initiatives, including a new prize. One of the highlights of LJIL volume 25 will be the special issue on Foucault and International Law. The Leiden …

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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM in collaboration with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada On Wednesday, March 23 at 3:30 p.m. in H. M. Tory Building 5-15 Sam Binkley (Emerson College) will be speaking on “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Neoliberal Transformations in the Government of Interiority” Abstract: This presentation theorizes the contemporary reinvention …

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Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present: A Symposium Bologna, Italy, March 3-4, 2011. Hosted by the University of Bologna Funded by the Finnish Academy Description Neoliberalism is superficially understood as a theory of political economic practices proposing that human well-being can best be advanced by the development of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework …

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Letting Go of Neo-Liberalism (with some help from Michel Foucault) Faculty seminar Professor Terry Flew Professor of Media and Communication, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 12pm-2pm Wednesday 24th November 2010 Z2-315 CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove ABSTRACT Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original …

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