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

Civitarese, G., Distel, E. “Thus far and no further”: Inquiry into a dreamless society (2024) International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies DOI: 10.1002/aps.1889 Abstract Humans are highly social primates who naturally seek out groups in which to live. Our individual psychology is inherently intertwined with that of the group, forming an inextricable link between the …

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Krupar, S., Ehlers, N. The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity (2024) Science Technology and Human Values DOI: 10.1177/01622439241265641 Abstract Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Biopolitical Leviathan: Understanding State Power in the Era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the State”, Theoria 71, 178 (2024): 48-74, https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2024.7117803 Abstract The coronavirus pandemic made the biopolitics of infection control the core object of states around the world. Globally, states governed spheres usually free of state control, implementing …

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Bannikov, K.V., Radina, N.K. Biopolitical media discourse in France in the COVID-19 pandemics (2023) RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 28 (3), pp. 553-565. DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-3-553-565 Abstract The publication activities of the French media during the COVID-19 pandemic in a biopolitical way are analyzed. The theoretical frame of the study is set by …

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Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas. “Marrying the Sources and Mechanisms of Power? Understanding the Quarantine Hotel through Michel Foucault and Michael Mann.” Journal of Political Power, (2024), 1–20. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2024.2337617 ABSTRACT Using the Norwegian quarantine hotel as a case, I analyse the narratives of 46 ‘guests’, so to explore this biopolitical device, which for biopolitical objectives enables …

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Di Cimbrini, T., Musella, A. M., & Corsi, C. (2023). Accounting for and of the epidemic in Bologna in 1855: The medicus-politicus in the Papal States. Accounting History, https://doi.org/10.1177/10323732231205646 Abstract This study investigates the confluence between accounting and natural disasters by examining the case of the cholera epidemic that occurred in Bologna in 1855, a …

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Turnbull, M. Assembling the Crisis of COVID-19 in Australia: A Foucauldian Analysis of Prime Ministerial Press Conferences in March 2020 (2023) Genealogy, 7 (3) DOI: 10.3390/genealogy7030066 Abstract In this article, I present a Foucauldian analysis of the speeches made by the then Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Scott Morrison) in March 2020. This analysis sets …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book ​ critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …

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Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature, de Gruyter, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799361 About this book This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken …

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Højme, Philip. 2022. “Biopolitics and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of the Danish Government’s Response to the Pandemic” Philosophies 7, no. 2: 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7020034 Abstract With the coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant once again forcing countries into lockdown (as of late 2021), this essay seeks to outline a Foucauldian critique of various legal …

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