Siniša Malešević (2022) Are We All Foucauldians Now? “Culture Wars” and the Poststructuralist Legacy, Critical Review DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2122171 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault’s philosophy has recently come under sharp criticism across the political spectrum. While right-wing and centrist commentators identify Foucault as the intellectual progenitor of “woke” dogmatism and an irrationalist hostility to science, left-wing critics associate …
Ilott, Luke. “Generalizing Resistance: The Coalition Politics of Foucault’s Governmentality Lectures.” The Review of Politics, 2022, 1–25. doi:10.1017/S0034670522000882. Abstract This article interprets Michel Foucault as a thinker of political coalition. While Foucault is often associated with a localist “micro-politics,” he also sought to help dispersed struggles “generalize” themselves into bigger, cohesive movements. Foucault gave his …
Strassheim, J. (2022). Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model. Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221119726 Abstract Contrary to widespread assumptions, post-truth politicians formally adopt a rhetoric of ‘truth’ but turn it against established experts. To explain one central factor behind this destructive strategy and its success with voters, I consider Walter Lippmann and Friedrich …
Jackson, B. Putting Neoliberalism in Its Place (2022) Modern Intellectual History, 19 (3), pp. 982-995. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244321000032 Abstract Neoliberalism is an ideal subject for intellectual historians. It is an ideological movement that has been both theoretically sophisticated and influential, ensuring that excursions along the highways and byways of neoliberal thought can always be justified practically, …
Gane, Nicholas. “Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation.” Theory, Culture & Society, (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221113727. Abstract This article addresses a little-known event in the history of neoliberalism: a conference at Stanford University held in 1982 to reconsider Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means’ The Modern Corporation and Private Property 50 years after its initial publication. …
Bietti, Elettra, A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation (June 3, 2021). 7 Georgetown Law and Technology Review (2022) (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3859487 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3859487 Abstract At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a …
Nadarajan, D. (2022), “The Zombification Crisis in a Crisis: Neoliberal Battles and Teacher Survivors in the Pandemic”, Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000042A013 Abstract In this piece, the author invokes Beck’s (1997) conception of “zombie …
Special Issue – Call for papers: Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times, Foucault Studies PDF of call for papers Foucault Studies Special issue call for papers Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times Guest editors Annika Skoglund, Uppsala University Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Kazi Nazrul University and ILSR, Calcutta Fabiana Jardim, University of São Paulo David Armstrong, King’s College …
Wu, B. Authenticity and wellbeing in neoliberal times: Imagining alternatives (2021) In Healthy Relationships in Higher Education: Promoting Wellbeing Across Academia, Edited by Narelle Lemon, Routledge, pp. 197-209. DOI: 10.4324/9781003144984-18 Abstract At the centre of the neoliberal endeavour is an idealised self for the governed – the entrepreneurial self. Although touted as free and autonomous, …
Emmanuel Chamorro, 2022. Foucault y el neoliberalismo: análisis de una controversia. Isegoría. 66 (jul. 2022), e28. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2022.66.28. Open access RESUMEN El presente artículo analiza la controversia surgida en la última década acerca de la supuesta «fascinación» de Michel Foucault por el neoliberalismo, especialmente alrededor de las intervenciones de Daniel Zamora y Michael C. Behrent. Sus …
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