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

Martin Duru, “Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983” : les bonnes ondes de Michel Foucault, Philosophie Magazine, 22 octobre 2024 « On écrit pour n’avoir plus de visage », disait-il. Là-bas il n’en avait plus, de visage, il n’y était plus qu’une voix (presque) anonyme, et c’est peut-être pour cette raison que Foucault aimait tant y aller : …

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Jubb, D. ‘It was pop that was making the bread’: Accounting and musical space at Abbey Road studios (2023) Accounting History, 28 (2), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.1177/10323732231155932 Abstract This research considers the relationship between accounting and physical space, focusing on the creation of musical recordings within the musical and ‘magical’ space of Abbey Road Studios …

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Vatter, M. (2019). Liberal Governmentality and the Political Theology of Constitutionalism. In B. Leijssenaar & N. Walker (Eds.), Sovereignty in Action (pp. 115-143). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108692502.006 Summary ‘The king reigns but does not govern’. This formula, which according to Carl Schmitt was coined by Adolphe Thiers, a French liberal historian and politician, enemy …

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Originally posted on affecognitive:
Lectures on the Will to Know (Leçons sur la volonté de savoir) contains Michel Foucault’s inaugural lectures at the Collège de France from December 1970 to March 1971. The published text gathers Foucault’s written notes and manuscripts into a considered presentation of what his oration might have been. I stress the…

He, Q. Avowal or Obedience: Foucault on the Solution to the Dilemma of Examination of Conscience and Its Influences (2023) Logos and Pneuma – Chinese Journal of Theology, 2023 (58), pp. 169-195. Note: This article is in Chinese Abstract Michel Foucault analyzed the ideas of John Cassian, a Church Father who lived in the 4th …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Samuel Lindholm, Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era – Routledge, September 2023 A prohibitively priced hardback only at this point… This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disregards or eliminates life. By analyzing…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault – Archive ouverte HAL Marie-Laure Massot, “Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault“. Master. Atelier autour des archives, Centre documentaire du CAPHES, France. 2023. ⟨hal-04057849⟩ Avec près de 20 000 feuillets numérisés…

Schmidgen, Henning, et al. “From the Archive to the Computer: Michel Foucault and the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Mar. 2023, doi:10.22148/001c.55795. Abstract Michel Foucault famously introduced the method of “discourse analysis” in the humanities, especially in historiography. In his Archaeology of Knowledge, originally published in 1969, in particular, Foucault …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I discuss my recent book The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) on the New Books Network with Dave O’Brien (audio) Dave has now generously discussed all the books in this series: Foucault’s Last Decade, 21 September 2016 Foucault: The Birth of Power, 6 November 2017 The Early Foucault, 11 February…