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15How we became our data: A genealogy of the informational person (review)Contemporary Political Theory 1-4. 2019.
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90On possibilising genealogyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.In this paper, I argue that the vindicatory/unmasking distinction has so far prevented scholars from grasping a third dimension of genealogical inquiry, one I call possibilising. This dimension has passed unnoticed even though it constitutes a crucial aspect of Foucault’s genealogical project starting from 1978 on. By focusing attention on it, I hope to provide a definitive rebuttal of one of the main criticisms that has been raised against genealogy in general, and Foucauldian genealogy in part…Read more
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93Critique without ontology: Genealogy, collective subjects and the deadlocks of evidenceRadical Philosophy 207 27-39. 2020.
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13Foucault, the Iranian Uprising and the Constitution of a Collective SubjectivityFoucault Studies 25 299-311. 2018.
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26The Emergence of Desire: Notes Toward a Political History of the WillCritical Inquiry 45 (2): 448-470. 2019.
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14Foucault, the Iranian Uprising and the Constitution of a Collective SubjectivityFoucault Studies 25 299. 2018.
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10La force du vrai: De Foucault à AustinLa bord de l'eau. 2017.Cet ouvrage propose une lecture originale du projet foucaldien d'une histoire de la vérité qui vise à en mettre clairement en lumière les enjeux éthiques et politiques, grâce à l'établissement d'une confrontation entre les analyses de Foucault sur la parrêsia antique, les travaux de J.L. Austin sur l'énoncé performatif et l'étude de l'énoncé passionné par Stanley Cavell. Le problème qui est ainsi posé, en lien mais également en décalage avec les réflexions traditionnelles sur le pouvoir des mots…Read more
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7Quel rapport est-il possible de tracer entre l'ethique et la politique? Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot et Stanley Cavell, a partir de trois positions philosophiques tres differentes, ont elabore des strategies de reponse a cette question que le present ouvrage se propose de rendre explicites et d'explorer. Ainsi, l'esthetique de l'existence, les exercices spirituels et le perfectionnisme moral y sont combines afin de construire un arriere-plan conceptuel et pratique permettant de saisir a la fois…Read more
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48Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of lifeJournal for Cultural Research 22 (2): 154-166. 2018.In this paper, I argue that the appropriate answer to the question of the form contemporary neoliberalism gives our lives rests on Michel Foucault’s definition of neoliberalism as a particular art of governing human beings. I claim that Foucault’s definition consists in three components: neoliberalism as a set of technologies structuring the ‘milieu’ of individuals in order to obtain specific effects from their behavior; neoliberalism as a governmental rationality transforming individual freedom…Read more
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28Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth: Foucault, Fanon, and the Making of the SubjectTheory, Culture and Society 35 (1): 71-90. 2018.This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in modern Western societies as well as in colonial spaces. Firstly, it takes into account Foucault’s analysis of confessional practices and the effects of subjection, objectivation, and subjectivation generated by the injunction for the subject to tell the truth about him or herself. Secondly, it focuses on the question of interpe…Read more
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10Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen. State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. 196 pp (review)Critical Inquiry 44 (1): 200-202. 2017.
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65From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude: Michel Foucault and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So MuchFoucault Studies 21 7-21. 2016.In this article I reconstruct the philosophical conditions for the emergence of the notion of counter-conduct within the framework of Michel Foucault’s study of governmentality, and I explore the reasons for its disappearance after 1978. In particular, I argue that the concept of conduct becomes crucial for Foucault in order to redefine governmental power relations as specific ways to conduct the conduct of individuals: it is initially within this context that, in Security, Territory, Population…Read more
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16Foucault and the Making of Subjects (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.Explores a Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power.
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35Performative, Passionate, and Parrhesiastic Utterance: On Cavell, Foucault, and Truth as an Ethical ForceCritical Inquiry 41 (2): 254-268. 2015.
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16Must We Do What We Say?European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2 (2): 16-34. 2010.The central argument of this paper is that moral perfectionism cannot be understood in its radical philosophical, ethical and political dimensions unless we trace its tradition back to the ancient Greek conception of philosophy as a way of life. Indeed, in ancient Greece, to be a philosopher meant to give importance to everyday life and to pay attention to the details of common language and behaviour, in order to actively transform oneself and one’s relationship to others and to the world. Truth…Read more
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53Sainte-Beuve, Tocqueville e la religione della libertàIn Olivia Catanorchi & David Ragazzoni (eds.), Il destino della democrazia: attualità di Tocqueville, Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura. pp. 43--61. 2010.
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57Foucault, Christianity, and the Genealogy of the Regimes of TruthIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (2): 391-402. 2012.
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55Dall'ermeneutica del sé alla politica di noi stessiNóema 4 (1): 1-10. 2013.This article tries to highlight the explicit political aim and the importance for our present of the thought of the «late» Michel Foucault. Through the analysis of the role that truth plays in the pagan and Christian techniques of the self, it opposes a truth that we have to discover in ourselves in order to refuse it (Christianity) or to adhere to it (ethics of authenticity) to a truth conceived as a force of transformation of logos into ethos , of the discourse into a way of life
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