Foucault News

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

Irmgard Emmelhainz, Authoritarianism and the Cybernetic Episteme, or the Progressive Disappearance of Everything on Earth, e-flux journal, Issue #122, November 2021 Open access Life and society worldwide have been transformed by digital technology, including the fabrics of emotional relationships. Many believed the internet would be the largest ungoverned space in the world with unlimited emancipatory …

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Lennard Davis, In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare, Critical Inquiry, Volume 47, Number S2, 26 June 2020 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/711458 Open access In regard to disability, the ableism that puts on a compassionate mask in milder times now reveals its brutal face. While laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act …

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Renata Cavalcanti Muniz,Fiorella Macchiavello Ferradas,Georgina M. Gomez,Lee J. Pegler, Covid-19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster, Disasters, 07 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528 Open access Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has been a massive disaster in Brazil, causing more than 350,000 deaths as of April 2021. Moreover, President Jair Bolsonaro suggested …

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Étienne Balibar, Human species as biopolitical concept, Radical Philosophy, 2.11 (December 2021) Open access I submit that the current situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic and its biopolitical consequences reveals something new in the ontological status of the human species which also involves an anthropological ‘revolution’. 1 This is something more than the fact that …

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Boulton, M., Garnett, A., & Webster, F. (2021). A Foucauldian discourse analysis of media reporting on the nurse-as-hero during COVID-19. Nursing Inquiry, e12471. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12471 Abstract This study uses a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore media reporting on the role of nurses as being consistently positioned ‘heroes’ during COVID-19. In so doing, it highlights multiple intersecting …

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Eckstein, N.A. Plague time: Space, fear, and emergency statecraft in early modern Italy (2021) Renaissance and Reformation, 44 (2), pp. 87-111. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v44i2.37522 Abstract Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth-and seventeenth-century policies were the …

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Horton, S. When the face becomes a carrier: Biopower, Levinas’s ethics, and contagion (2021) Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 77 (2-3), pp. 715-732. DOI: 10.17990/RPF/2021_77_2_0715 Abstract In the midst of a pandemic, what does it mean to see the Other as Other and not as a carrier of the virus? I argue that in seeking a …

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Kwok, H., Singh, P., Heimans, S. The regime of ‘post-truth’: COVID-19 and the politics of knowledge (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1965544 Abstract The emergence of ‘post-truth’ is often associated with the rise of conspiracy theories and the lack of trust in scientific knowledge. This article attempts to theorise the complex division of labour in this regime …

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Mendes M, Bordignon JS, Menegat RP, Schneider DG, Vargas MAO, Santos EKAD, Cunha PRD. Neither angels nor heroes: nurse speeches during the COVID-19 pandemic from a Foucauldian perspective. Rev Bras Enferm. 2021 Sep 29;75(suppl 1):e20201329. English, Portuguese. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1329. PMID: 34614072. Open access Link to PDF in English Abstract Objective: to analyze the processes of …

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Mengmeng GAO Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), 2 octobre 2021, Paris. Date et horaire exacts : Le samedi 2 octobre 2021 de 19h à 2h gratuit Surveiller et Punir – Vidéo Mengmeng GAO est originaire de Pékin (Chine), où elle est née en 1986. Elle vit et travaille à Paris. L’œuvre Surveiller …

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